HEBRON, West Bank: Jewish settlers angry at an Israeli court order for their eviction from a house in Hebron desecrated a mosque and tombs in the flash point West Bank City before dawn yesterday, witnesses said.

The settlers scrawled extremely derogatory words against Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and "Death to the Arabs" on the front of a mosque.

They also drew the Israeli emblem, the Star of David, on several gravestones in a Muslim graveyard, the witnesses said.

The mosque and graveyard both lie near the Hebron house where dozens of hard-line Jewish settlers are defying the order by the Israeli High Court setting last Wednesday a deadline for them to leave or face eviction.

Israeli soldiers are on round-the-clock patrol in the tense neighborhood.

The ruling, which was slammed by settler leaders, follows a series of violent clashes between Israeli …