Three Jewish settler families have moved back into a contested house in the Palestinian city of Hebron.<br /><br />After a long legal battle over ownership, during which the families had been ordered to leave,<br />Israel’s Supreme Court ruled the building belonged to the settlers.<br /><br />The disputed house sits on the edge of Hebron next to the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba.<br /><br />The families claimed to have bought it back in 2007. Its former Palestinian owner had denied selling it.<br /><br />The house has become a flash point for tensions between the two communities. Palestinians accuse settlers of encroaching into the West Bank by either building new homes or stealing old ones.
