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| Jewish Settlers Agree to Leave Hebron |
| 2006-01-30 |
| Jewish settlers who took over a marketplace in this Palestinian city four years ago said Monday they would leave voluntarily, averting a potentially violent confrontation with thousands of troops preparing to remove them. Israel had agreed to clear the marketplace and the separate community of Amona under a commitment to the United States to dismantle unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank. Palestinians and the international community view the outposts as seeds of future settlements. The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday rejected a last-ditch appeal from settlers to halt the Hebron evacuations, clearing the way for the removal operation to proceed. But the settlers agreed to leave after winning assurances they could return if a legal review determines the property is Jewish. Rest at link. |
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