Israeli government on Sunday dismissed a bill calling on extending Israeli law over Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

The Interministerial Legislation Committee struck down the bill under instructions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying its backer, Miri Regev of the Likud, did not adhere to a request by Netanyahu to wait a month before submitting the bill, Army radio reported.

Elsewhere on Sunday, residents of Ulpana, an outpost in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, and the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel petitioned the Supreme Court to annul an evacuation order which calls for their eviction by July 1.

The legality of the several dozen-family neighbourhood was cast into doubt after a Palestinian man, represented by a local human rights group, filed a petition claiming that it was built on his private land.

The Supreme Court in January 2011 ruled in favor of the Palestinians, later ordering the state to demolish the outpost.

In another, unrelated case, the court discussed a petition brought by a Palestinian woman, demanding the state halt construction of a road to a nearby settlement Alei Zahav, claiming that it illegally crossed her property, according to the Haaretz daily.

After initially claiming to oppose using the access road if it in fact lay within the Palestinian's property, in the village of al-Dik, the government relented, later asking the court to use the land, citing a lack of alternate route.

Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, a district court on Sunday ruled to suspend an eviction notice against Jewish residents in a disputed house in Hebron. The court ordered both the Jews and Palestinians to present their cases for ownership on the property.

Israeli settlements in the West Bank -- home to some 300,000 people -- have been a core issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the 1967 war. The Palestinians slate the area to become part of their future state, and have conditioned a resumption of long-stalled negotiations with Israel on a complete freeze of settlement construction.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has previously stated that Israel would be forced to make "painful concessions" -- hinting that many settlements would one day be evacuated, but pledged that large settlement blocs would remain under Israeli sovereignty in any future peace deal.