Israel to Transfer Parts of Northern West Bank to Palestinian Authority

Aluf Benn and Amos Harel (Ha'aretz) - Israel is to transfer responsibility for most of the area it evacuated in the northern West Bank to the PA, according to an IDF source. The IDF would enter the area only if intelligence information indicated a terror attack was being planned there. According to government and defense sources, because Israel does not want to maintain a presence in the evacuated area, it has told the Palestinians that it intends to give them most of the responsibility for the region.


2005-09-07 00:00:00

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