Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh met Monday with Jewish settler leaders to show them maps indicating the portions of the West Bank that Israel will withdraw from in the first of three redeployments called for under the latest Israeli-Palestinian agreement. The accord, signed Saturday night at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, calls for Israel to relinquish another 11 percent of West Bank lands to Palestinian control and to release 350 Palestinian prisoners jailed for security offenses. The accord also calls for the two sides to reach a final peace agreement by September of next year.
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