Nationalists, mostly youths, blocked the main entrance to Jerusalem and confronted police forces following the Hevron eviction on Thursday. Some ten people were arrested.

Hundreds of people, some of them bystanders, stood on the sidewalks and encouraged the sit-in demonstrators. Rush-hour traffic was blocked until police dragged away many of the protestors.

In Kiryat Arba, police forcibly evacuated nationalists who tried to block roads in and out of Hevron, where officers violently expelled hundreds of Jewish residents and their supporters from the Hevron Peace House.  Dozens of other intersections were blocked throughout Judea and Samaria in protest as well.

Hevron Arabs attempted to fuel the fires by reporting on two shooting victims, but these reports have not been confirmed by other sources.

Tel Aviv
Near the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, a handful of protestors held signs reading, "Tel Aviv is with Hevron," and gave out "Hevron, Now and Forever" stickers to passersby. Other Tel Aviv-area protests are taking place nearby close to Bar Ilan University and Yoseftal Intersection.

National Union MK Uri Ariel angrily charged that the order of Defense Minister Ehud Barak to carry out the evictions was a gross violation of agreements that were being worked out with nationalist leaders.

Police forces surprised the activists during lunch hour when they burst in to expel them.  Negotiations had been taking place with Defense Minister Barak over the status of the building, which was bought by Morris Abraham for $700,000. The Arab seller reneged following death threats from the Palestinian Authority, which, along with Jordan, imposes the death penalty on those convicted of selling property to a Jew.

Angry residents of Kiryat-Hevron continued throughout the late afternoon hours to confront both rock-throwing Arabs and policemen, and several fires have broken out in Arab houses near the Jewish communities. Protests also were reported along Highway 60 between Kiryat and Gush Etzion. The southern portion of the road, between Hevron and the Negev, was closed totally by security forces.

Arabs are throwing rocks at Jews in Hevron and also in Samaria, where one attack smashed the window of a Jewish woman near the Hawara Shechem, south of Shechem, and lightly injured a two-month-old baby and her mother with shattered glass. They were treated at a Petach Tikva hospital and were released.