16-12-2016 20:32 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Israel's Netanyahu urges settlers set for eviction to go quietly

By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday urged settlers set for eviction from an outpost in the occupied West Bank next week to leave quietly without resisting security forces. Netanyahu has backed a bill, condemned by Western powers and the United Nations, that would legalise Israeli settlement homes built on privately owned Palestinian land. In the five decades since Israel captured the West Bank, it has built about 120 formal settlements in the te
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