Mr Netanyahu indicated that he was loth to order the police to evict the Ras al-Amud settlers.
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Meanwhile, three families of rightist-religious settlers moved into homes controversially bought from Palestinians at Ras al-Amud, a densely populated quarter on the Mount of Olives.
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The National Religious Party, a key partner in the coalition, called on the prime minister to rescind his opposition to an American developer's plans for a Jewish housing estate at Ras al-Amud in East Jerusalem.