JERUSALEM (AFP) - Dozens of Israeli settlers took over a house in mostly Arab East Jerusalem on Tuesday armed with a court order secured after a protracted legal battle with a Palestinian family, witnesses and police said. Members of the Al-Kurd family demonstrated in front of the house along with other Arab residents and pro-Palestinian activists as the settlers hurled the familys belongings out into the street, a neighbour told AFP. Jerusalem police spokesman Shmulik Ben Rubi said police, sent in to break up the demonstration, arrested one activist. A group of Jews arrived at the house with a court order, saying that it was their house. They entered, and then dozens of Arabs and left-wing activists began a demonstration outside the house, Ben Rubi told AFP. The order was completely legal and the entrance was completely legal. We have no right to intervene when the order is signed by the court. But a police officer at the scene ordered the settlers to bring all of the familys belongings back into the house and to leave the premises by early afternoon, according to an AFP photographer. The house had been sealed by the court several years ago and the Al-Kurd family was not living there. It is on the same street where two large Palestinian families of 53 people were evicted in August in similar circumstances, with settlers armed with court orders taking up residence in the homes. Israels support for Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and its demolition of Palestinian homes built there without permits have drawn international criticism in recent months. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband called settlements in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank an obstacle to peace during a visit to Jordan on Tuesday and expressed concern over the events at the Al-Kurd house. The current situation is obviously particularly tense in respect of Jerusalem, he told reporters. We view with particular concern... the recent report of settlers moving into a Palestinian familys home today.