Ariel Sharon said Israel will continue building in West Bank settlement blocs. “There will be building in the settlement blocs,” the Israeli prime minister was quoted as saying in the Jerusalem Post on Monday, as security forces prepared to evacuate two settlements in the northern West Bank in the final stage of the government’s withdrawal plan.
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