An encampment south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.<br/> <br />These Palestinian activists have been pitching tents every week recently to protest Jewish settlement expansion in areas wanted for a separate Palestinian state.<br/> <br />But Israeli soldiers arrived on the scene soon after and swiftly dismantled the steel-framed tents.<br/> <br />Israel has been criticised internationally for its plans to build more than 11,000 new houses on the disputed land.<br/> <br />International powers view all settlement-building in areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war as illegal and a hindrance to peace.
