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Wednesday 30 august 2017

Israeli prime minister says no withdrawal from settlements

rooting of settlements in the nity remains solidly behind
Land of Israel. Settlements the goal of Palestinian in-
will not be uprooted.” dependence.
The Palestinians seek all of “I express very strongly the
the West Bank, along with total commitment of the
east Jerusalem and the United Nations and my per-
Gaza Strip, for an indepen- sonal total commitment
dent state alongside Israel. to the two-state solution,”
Israel captured all three Guterres said at a meeting
areas in the 1967 Mideast with Palestinian Prime Minis-
war, though it withdrew ter Rami Hamdallah.
from Gaza in 2005. He added that settlement
The Palestinians say that activity is illegal under inter-
settlements on occupied national law, calling it an
lands are illegal and un- “obstacle” that needs to
dermine the goal of a two- be removed.
state solution by gobbling Nabil Abu Rdeneh, spokes-
up land — a position that is man for Palestinian Presi-
widely backed by the inter- dent Mahmoud Abbas,
national community. denounced Netanyahu’s
But since his election, Presi- comments and urged the
dent Donald Trump has U.S. to intervene.
broken with the policies of “This is an Israeli message
his predecessors and re- to the U.S. administration,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shake fused to endorse the two- which sought through an
hands before a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug.28, state solution. In turn, Ne- important tour in the area
2017. tanyahu has also taken a to do something in order
(Heidi Levine, Pool via AP) harder line and no longer to rescue the peace pro-
By JOSEF FEDERMAN restart peace talks with the Jared Kushner. speaks of establishing a cess,” he said.
Associated Press Palestinians. Netanyahu spoke at a cer- Palestinian state. “We call upon the U.S. ad-
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s emony Monday night in In the West Bank city of ministration to deal with
prime minister has vowed comments enraged the Barkan, a settlement in the Ramallah, U.N. Secretary- these provocations,” which
to never uproot any West Palestinians and raised new northern West Bank. General Antonio Guterres he said hinder U.S. peace
Bank settlement — just days questions about the slow “We have returned here condemned Israeli settle- efforts and are “an attempt
after a White House envoy start for U.S. peace efforts for good,” Netanyahu said. ment construction and said to return things to square
was in the region trying to led by White House adviser “There will be no more up- the international commu- one.”q

Lebanon’s negotiated IS evacuation angers many

By ZEINA KARAM of dumping the militants on consideration the security “Who’s going to pay for to flee (to Syria) and dam-
SINAN SALAHEDDIN the Iraqi border rather than of Iraq and not to lead to the delivery sent by Has- age the neighbor.”
Associated Press eradicating them. anything that poses any san Nasrallah to us?” wrote Daesh is the Arabic acro-
BEIRUT (AP) — Buses car- Some 600 militants were al- threat to our national secu- well-known writer Saleh al- nym for IS.
rying hundreds of Islamic lowed to leave as part of rity,” the Iraqi government Hamdani on his Facebook The Lebanese government
State militants and their a deal, negotiated by He- spokesman, Saad al-Ha- page, referring to Hezbol- and Hezbollah have both
families arrived in eastern zbollah, in exchange for dithi, told The Associated lah’s leader. defended the deal that
Syria on Tuesday following identifying the location of Press on Tuesday. “Will (state-sanctioned mi- allowed IS safe passage
a negotiated evacuation the remains of Lebanese Al-Hadithi said the Iraqi litias) or the Federal Police to the eastern province of
from the Lebanon-Syria soldiers captured by IS in government “will firmly or Counter Terrorism Forces Deir el-Zour, an IS strong-
border, where the U.S.- 2014 and later killed. The face any threat to Iraqi ter- pay for it?” hold, saying it was the only
backed Lebanese army deal also provoked contro- ritories.” Baghdad-based analyst way Lebanon could un-
deployed for the first time versy in Lebanon, as some Shiite-majority Iraq has Hisham al-Hashimi wrote on cover the fate of its cap-
in years. have voiced opposition to been largely supportive of Facebook that Iraq’s “self- tured soldiers and recover
The evacuation agree- negotiations with the mili- Syria and the Iran-backed ish ally preferred to throw their remains.
ment, the first such publi- tants. Hezbollah in their battle Daesh danger from Leba- But many in Lebanon were
cized deal concluded with “Any deals or understand- against IS, a Sunni extremist non to Iraq, while Iraqis de- opposed to the deal, which
the extremist group, an- ings between the warring group and shared enemy, molished the second-larg- they said allowed the killers
gered many Iraqis, who ac- parties inside Syria or in but many Iraqis expressed est city (Mosul) in order not of Lebanese soldiers to get
cused Syria and Hezbollah the region must take into anger on social media. to enable Daesh militants off scot-free.q