The Olmert administration, fresh from a Peace Now-initiative to evict two Jewish families from their Hevron homes, now is preparing to force four other families, including a Chabad mobile unit, out of the city.

"We were forced to buy this mobile unit because it is forbidden to erect new structures in Hebron and now they are telling us to move this too," Rabbi Danny Cohen told the Chabad news site, Shturem.net. "This mobile unit is not a permanent building and still the authorities ordered the emissaries not to use it in the city."

He slammed Israeli media for painting what he called a false picture of the Jewish presence in the Hevron market area, as though it interferes with Arabs. Rabbi Cohen charged, "You won't find one Arab in the entire marketplace. The media makes it sound as though the marketplace is swarming with Arabs but only [a person] who lives here knows the truth; it was closed down 10 years ago."

Peace Now has accused the Jewish residents of "squatting" in the buildings, which are on Jewish-owned land that Arabs took over after the massacre or rabbis and yeshiva students in 1929.