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| Israel may take U-turn on destroying settlers' homes |
| 2005-03-01 |
| JERUSALEM — Israel looked set to execute a U-turn over plans to demolish the homes of Gaza Strip settlers to be evacuated this year, as the official in charge of the pullout yesterday advocated they be handed over intact. "I heartily recommend not destroying these houses and coming up with an arrangement by which they are handed over to officials," national security council chief General Giora Eiland told Israeli public radio. "If we have to destroy them, it would prolong the disengagement operation from the Gaza Strip while on the contrary, we want to limit our presence in the region to a minimum," he added. As of July 20, the Israeli government is set to uproot the 8,000 Jewish settlers living in the occupied Gaza Strip and several hundred living in four isolated enclaves in the northern West Bank. |
| Posted by:Steve White |