Israeli forces completed the evacuation of a West Bank settlement outpost near the Palestinian town of Ramallah, despite violent opposition from right-wing Jewish settlers.
The Israeli army said all nine houses slated for demolition were reduced to rubble by late afternoon. Some forces remained in the area to prevent further unrest.
More than 160 people were wounded and dozens arrested in the confrontations at Amona, a hilltop enclave in the heart of the West Bank. The demolition of nine houses at Amona was seen as a test for acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has said he would act with determination against settlers violating the law.
Thousands of extremist settlers had barricaded themselves in, vowing to fight police and soldiers sent to demolish part of an unauthorised outpost.
The confrontation over Amona, a hilltop enclave near the West Bank town of Ramallah is the worst violence between Israeli troops and Jewish settlers since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip last September.
About 5,000 protesters, many of them teenagers, took over the rooftops of nine uninhabited houses slated to be demolished today and prepared to confront police with stones, glass bottles, buckets of cooking oil and paint.
Amona has become the latest battleground for settlers angry over Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and keen to prevent any additional pullouts in the West Bank if Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima party is elected in a March 28th election.
Mr Olmert has targeted 24 settlement outposts for removal in a bid to implement a commitment in a US-backed peace "road map", and assert control after assuming the powers of an incapacitated Ariel Sharon.