Israel is staking no claims to several Palestinian villages adjacent to Jerusalem, an Israeli Cabinet minister said. Haim Ramon said Israel never had any sovereign claim on the villages of Abu Dis, Azaria or A-Ram, and calls not to include them in the next Israeli withdrawal from portions of the West Bank are irrelevant.
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