An Israeli government minister called for the Gaza Strip withdrawal to take just a few days. Matan Vilnai, a former deputy chief of the military staff, told Cabinet colleagues Sunday that stretching out the summer evacuations from Gaza and the northern West Bank any further would put a major burden on Israel’s security services.
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