Israel froze plans for a new West Bank settlement. Israel announced last month that it was reviving decades-old plans to establish Maskiot, a settlement in the Jordan Valley, in order to house Israelis evacuated during Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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