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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

Beit Hamachpela

Settlers stand at the top of the Machpela House in Hebron after re-entering the building for the first time in months on August 25, 2019. (Harhivi movement)
August 29, 2019, 1:31 pm
Settlers enter disputed Hebron home after legal win, but move appears premature
Committee rules Israeli group’s purchase of half of Machpela House legitimate, 17 months after squatters evicted, but compound must be divided before it can be re-inhabited
By Jacob Magid
An Israeli border police officer guards outside the 'Machpela House' in the West Bank city of Hebron on August 28, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
March 22, 2018, 5:56 pm
Settlers evacuate disputed Hebron building after squatting for 8 months
Evacuation said peaceful, despite vehement opposition from Beit Hamachpela’s 15 families to High Court order
By Jacob Magid
An Israeli border police officer guards outside the 'Machpela House' in the West Bank city of Hebron on August 28, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
March 12, 2018, 8:44 pm
High Court rules squatting settlers must evacuate Hebron building
Justices accept state’s opinion that 15 families failed to prove their purchase of Machpela House
By Jacob Magid
An Israeli border police officer guards outside the 'Machpela House' in the West Bank city of Hebron on August 28, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
October 18, 2017, 11:23 pm
Opposing settlers’ petition, state calls for evacuation of Hebron squatters
State Attorney’s Office says 15 families ‘made their own laws and established facts on the ground’ in illegally populating Machpela House
By Jacob Magid
Squatters of the Machpela House in Hebron sit outside the building as Border Police look on, July 26, 2017. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
September 3, 2017, 11:12 pm
Court gives Hebron squatters reprieve as evacuation looms
Petition to stay eviction from Machpela House comes on the final day of a week during which the settlers were meant to leave peacefully
By Jacob Magid
Yisrael Beytenu leader and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on July 10, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 29, 2017, 8:07 pm
Liberman slams illegal outposts as ‘sabotaging settlement movement’
Defense minister says White House unhappy with amount of construction beyond Green Line, but building will continue
By Jacob Magid
Israeli soldiers guard the Machpela House in the West Bank city Hebron, on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)
August 27, 2017, 10:48 pm
State agrees to evacuate squatters from Hebron building
Attorney general acknowledges 15 settler families populated the Machpela House without having completed its purchase
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: IDF soldiers conduct raids in the West Bank city of Yatta, near Hebron, on August 3, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
August 4, 2017, 11:45 pm
Four injured in clashes between Palestinians, settlers in Hebron
Soldiers separate groups shouting, hurling insults at each other in tense West Bank city
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony inaugurating a new neighborhood in the Beitar Illit settlement on August 3, 2017. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
August 3, 2017, 4:28 pm
Netanyahu: No government has done more for settlers than mine
At ceremony for a new neighborhood in Beitar Illit, PM boasts of his efforts on behalf of Netiv Ha’avot and Amona residents
By Jacob Magid
Border Police officers remove structures placed by Israeli settlers at the contested Machpela House in the West Bank city of Hebron on July 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)
July 31, 2017, 6:38 pm
Likud MK prevented from visiting contested Hebron home
David Bitan calls army’s decision a ‘scandal’; Defense Ministry says request denied due to ‘security concerns’
By Alexander Fulbright and Jacob Magid
White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci talks with the media outside the White House in Washington, DC on July 25, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / TASOS KATOPODIS)
July 31, 2017, 2:40 pm
Trump fires comms director Scaramucci after 10 days
Army source says Elor Azaria must express ‘real’ remorse for chance at pardon; Jerusalem police brace for Pride Parade, possible violence
By ToI Staff
File: Jewish settlers and Israeli border policemen outside of Hebron's Beit Hamachpela in April 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 30, 2015, 3:19 pm
IDF rules settlers don’t own contentious Hebron home
Jewish residents first claimed to buy Machpela House in April 2012, but officials say purchase could not be proven
By ToI Staff
The controversial Beit Hamachpela in Hebron (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 24, 2013, 6:45 pm
Settlers must wait to occupy Hebron house
State now says Netanyahu was only giving verbal support, not an order, when he declared Jews will move into Beit Hamachpela
By Stuart Winer
Israeli soldiers carry the flagged wrapped coffin of Staff Sergeant Gabriel Koby, during his funeral at the military cemetery in Haifa ,Israel, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)
September 23, 2013, 9:27 pm
Fatah official: Israel responsible for soldier’s death in Hebron
Sgt. Kobi wasn’t ‘on a sightseeing tour’ of the city, says Abbas Zaki; calls decision to reopen Beit Hamachpela as ‘legitimizing aggression’
By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (in blue shirt) seen during the funeral of of Israeli soldier Staff Sergeant Gal Gabriel Kobi, 20, in the Haifa military cemetery, on September 23, 2013. (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/FLASH90)
September 23, 2013, 7:07 pm
Seven ministers call on PM to end prisoner releases
At funeral for slain soldier, Naftali Bennett vows more building in Hebron; Israel to submit complaint to US over PA ‘inaction’
By Lazar Berman
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