The IDF on Sunday notified settlers who entered an abandoned building near the Hebron neighborhood of Avraham Avinu that they must evacuate the place within ten days or be evacuated by security forces.
Two weeks ago, nine settlers entered an abandoned building in the city after presenting documents indicating that they are renting the place. The settlers presented the army and civil administration representatives who arrived at the site with permits claiming that they rented the place.
In the past few days, the documents were examined both by the police and the State Prosecutor's Office. Defense establishment officials later claimed that the documents were illegal and that the settlers invaded the building. Simultaneously, a number of Palestinians approached security forces and claimed that the house belonged to them.
At the end of January, nine families living in the Hebron wholesale market evacuated themselves willingly, thereby preventing an evacuation by security forces, which raised heavy fear of violent clashes between the settlers and soldiers.
The settlers claimed they were given a promise that the defense establishment would now accelerate the legal proceedings which began in the past in a bid to rent the houses from the Hebron Municipality to the Jewish residents.