The United Nations will help Israel and the Palestinian Authority dispose of rubble from razed Gaza Strip settlements. Israeli sources said Thursday that the United Nations Development Program had agreed to oversee the transfer of a fifth of the waste produced from razing the 21 settlements to the Sinai Desert in Egypt, where it will be buried at Israel’s expense.
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