The Israeli government gave Gaza Strip settlers a week to accept a special relocation deal. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni told an inter-ministerial committee Wednesday that 426 settler families, roughly a third of those to be evacuated from Gaza this summer, had signed up to move to Nitzanim, a few miles north along the coast. She warned the rest of the settlers that if they don’t do the same within a week, they could lose such special privileges as priority housing and choice of schools for their children. “Time is very short and the settlers must understand that if they don’t give us a green light very soon, we will be unable to put these solutions at their disposal,” she said.
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