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Israel says no plan for new settlements in West Bank area evacuated in 2005

FILE PHOTO: Israeli activists carry a tent in the abandoned Jewish settlement of Homesh, in the northern West Bank, March 27, 2007. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (WEST BANK)/File Photo

Israel tried on Wednesday to calm international concern over its amending of a law that had ordered the 2005 evacuation of settlers from an area of the occupied West Bank, saying it had no intention of building new settlements there.

Tuesday's repeal in parliament of elements of the "disengagement law" would allow Israelis to return to the four evacuated settlements in the northern West Bank, on condition of Israeli military approval.

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