Three groups of settlers comprising 65 families moved into the Beth El army camp north of Ramallah and into the abandoned Nabi-Saleh police compound northwest of Ramallah on the West Bank today. It was indicate that these will be the last settlements for the time being in the Judaea and Samaria regions because the government wants to avoid further friction with the U.S. Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Zipori, who visited both sites today said there would be no settlements that are not the outcome of government planning and decisions.
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