1.   A number of right-wing Parliament members warned that they would quit the governing coalition if the settlers were evicted.

2.   The government was reported to be studying whether it had the right to evict the settlers on security grounds.

3.   The police broke windows in the wooden house and climbed in to evict the settlers.

4.   The settlers were evicted from a hilltop near the Jewish town of Efrat, south of Bethlehem.

5.   Opposition leader Ehud Barak said the government must evict the settlers.

6.   Palestinians warned violence would erupt unless the settlers were evicted immediately from the Ras al-Amud neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

7.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with security officials Monday to decide whether to order the settlers evicted on grounds of national security.

8.   At Alon Shvut and Maale Michmash, Israeli police ordered the settlers to remove bulldozers, but made no attempt to evict the settlers.

9.   Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein had told Netanyahu this week that he could evict the settlers by force if he received evidence that their presence threatened national security.

10.   David Bar-Illan, a top aide to Netanyahu, said Netanyahu would decide later in the day whether to invoke national security and evict the settlers.