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HOMES FOR SETTLERS: Workers put in place a mobile home at a site for the relocation of Jewish settlers from Gaza Strip later this summer on the outskirts of Nitzan, southern Israel, on Thursday.
JERUSALEM: Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan was constitutional, removing the last legal obstacle to this summer's watershed pullout. In Gaza, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas met Islamist militants to salvage a shaky truce following a flare-up in fighting with Israel. Mr. Abbas urged the militants to respect the cease-fire, and reached an agreement granting them a role in preparations for the withdrawal, participants said. The agreement appeared to be an attempt to ensure peace during the Israeli withdrawal.
Efforts to keep truce
Israel and the Palestinians are trying to keep the truce intact to allow them to coordinate the Gaza pullout, scheduled to begin in mid-August. The 11-judge Supreme Court bench rejected 12 petitions by opponents of the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements, ruling the pullout does not violate the settlers' human rights. In their 320-page ruling, the judges upheld four technical challenges dealing with financial compensation for settlers to be evicted, but stressed that the withdrawal itself was constitutional. One judge dissented, arguing that a law governing the pullout was unsound and should be repealed. Yoram Sheftel, an attorney for the settlers, said his expectations were low because the Supreme Court had a tendency of backing the government against Jewish settlers. Since Mr. Sharon already has won parliamentary approval for the withdrawal, the court decision exhausted the settlers' legal options for halting the withdrawal. Some 9,000 settlers are slated to be uprooted. — AP
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