Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to evacuate 17 West Bank settlements as part of a final political agreement with the Palestinians, a senior Likud Party official said. Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin said in an interview with the daily Ha’aretz published Tuesday that Sharon would order the evacuation of settlements breaking the territorial contiguity of a future Palestinian state.
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