right activist leader, as shouting at police ousting her from the hotel: " Shame on the government for expelling Jews as if they were in Russia." Harel said on Israel Radio that the raid was provoked by "hooligans and lawbreakers with no regard for human life". Harel said such radicals were responsible for the attempted "lynching" on Wednesday of a Palestinian youth stoned from close range in a clash sparked by Jewish youths' seizure of an outpost in the nearby Palestinian neighbourhood of al-Mawasi. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed Israel would block far-right Jews from obstructing the pullout. "We will deal with these phenomena with a heavy hand since they threaten our very existence here as a Jewish and democratic country," he said. Sharon told economists the pullout would start on schedule and "begin in seven weeks time ... I promise that I will not be deterred from implementing the evacuation from Gaza because of threats and intimidation from political opponents." He aims to evacuate all 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza and four of 120 in the West Bank, a disengagement U.S.-led mediators hope will foster a "road map" peace process between Israel and Palestinians seeking statehood in occupied lands. --More 2330 Local Time 2030 GMT
