In the property they have dubbed the "House of Peace", Jewish right-wingers bent on living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are gearing up for their next major battle with the government.

Activists have been converging on the city of Hebron since a Supreme Court ruling gave several families living in the building three days to leave, permitting the government to use force to evict them if they refuse.

Local Palestinians say the young men throw stones at them, ratcheting up tensions in the town where several hundred settlers, known as particularly hardline, live in heavily-guarded enclaves amid some 150,000 Palestinians.

Many of the settlements, which are considered illegal under international law, would have to be removed under most likely scenarios for a two-state peace deal.

But across the road, Majdi al-Jabber, 43, who built the building a decade ago, says the settlers have made life "miserable," for him and seven brothers.