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Israel allows Palestinians to return from Libya
February 23, 2011
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel will allow 300 Palestinians from Libya to come to the West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late on Wednesday that "for humanitarian reasons" he had acceded to a request by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to allow the Palestinians to flee the unrest in the North African country for the West Bank.
More than a dozen countries sent airplanes to Libya to evacuate their citizens. Hundreds have been reported dead in protests calling for an end to Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi's 41-year reign.
This is a welcome move in the direction of cooperation.
And further, now no one will be able to deny that there are at least 300 Palestinians in Palestine.
There goes the neighbourhood.
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