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(IsraelNN.com) Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said Sunday morning that the police and the army are preparing for the possibility that the 24 Jewish families living in the Peace House on the edge of Hevron that was bought for $700,000 might not agree to leave.

"The High Court's ruling is not a suggestion, it's a binding decision. It will be carried out, I hope with understanding and agreement, but in any event the IDF and the Police will organize themselves if the option that becomes necessary, G-d forbid, is a different one (than with understanding and agreement -ed.). This... house... will have the High Court decision carried out, as written, to the letter of the law," Dichter said Sunday.

The High Court, in a controversial ruling, decided to evict the current tenants of the Peace House despite not ruling that the house was owned by someone else.