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Defense Ministry Wants to Move Security Fence Eastward
(Ha'aretz) - Aluf Benn The defense establishment has recommended moving the separation fence eastward to include some 40,000 Jewish residents of major West Bank settlements, as well as some 3,000 Palestinians on the western, Israeli side of the fence. The new fence would run east of the towns of Kedumim, Immanuel, and Ariel in Samaria. The fence planners intend to get as many Jews and as few Palestinians as possible into the western side. The Defense Ministry is also planning an eastern fence, separating Palestinian population concentrations in the West Bank from the Jordan Valley. Senior defense sources said the fence will not determine the political border.