Israeli Radio says the army has prevented a group of settlers from re-establishing themselves on a hill they had earlier been removed from in the West Bank.

The outpost was dismantled under an agreement between Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the Council of Settlements, which represents Jewish settlers in the West Bank and the Gaza strip, to prepare the area to be transferred to the Palestinians as part of the peace negotiations.

The settlers belong to a group called the Generation of the Future which wants to prevent West Bank territory being handed over. The army erected road blocks in the area and declared it a closed militray zone.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service