Israel’s Supreme Court today ordered the immediate evacuation of an illegal West Bank settlement outpost, clearing the way for thousands of troops to move against hundreds of Jewish settlers.

Tens of thousands of Israelis packed the Tel Aviv square where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated 10 years ago to mourn the former prime minister and to express hopes that his memory would spur new efforts to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Tens of thousands of Israelis linked hands today in a human chain in a protest against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to dismantle the Jewish settlements and withdraw the army from the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian gunman has killed a two-year-old Jewish girl in an attack at a playground in the West Bank city of Hebron.