Acting Premier Yigal Allon disclosed today that the government has decided to establish five more settlements in administered areas. It is assumed that the new settlements will be situated in accordance with the Allon Plan, under which para-military settlements are set up along the Jordan River with a view toward demilitarizing the West Bank and returning it to Jordanian control. There are already 24 settlements in the occupied territories–12 on the Golan Heights, five in the Jordan Valley, three each in the Hebron area and in the Sinai and one near Latroun, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
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