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Article: PA Demands Handover of Israeli Town Near Ashkelon.
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- Israel Faxx
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- July 5, 2005
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By IsraelNationalNews.com
National Security Council Chairman Giora Eiland told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday that the Palestinian Authority is now demanding towns adjacent to Gaza be handed over. PA security chief Mohammad Dahlan publicly voiced the PA demand that Israel withdraw from the town of Netiv Ha'asara, a small residential community south of Ashkelon, in order to complete the planned withdrawal from Gaza.
Netiv Ha'asara, one of the few communities to relocate from Sinai and maintain its original name, has suffered many Kassam rocket attacks since the beginning of the Oslo War. The PA position is that Israel ...