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Israel PM urges evacuation of Migron

Israeli police talk to a Jewish settler by his destroyed wooden house in the unauthorized outpost of Mitzpe Avichai near the Kiryat Arba Settlement in Hebron, West Bank, after the outpost was destroyed by the Israeli army, January 12, 2012. Israeli troops destroyed ten houses in the illegal settlement outpost Mitzpe Avichai. UPI/Debbie Hill
Israeli police talk to a Jewish settler by his destroyed wooden house in the unauthorized outpost of Mitzpe Avichai near the Kiryat Arba Settlement in Hebron, West Bank, after the outpost was destroyed by the Israeli army, January 12, 2012. Israeli troops destroyed ten houses in the illegal settlement outpost Mitzpe Avichai. UPI/Debbie Hill | License Photo

JERUSALEM, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday urged the peaceful evacuation of an illegal settlement on the West Bank.

Netanyahu called on the people in Migron to accept the latest government offer to relocate them to new homes on state-controlled land in the area.

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"This is a reasonable offer," Netanyahu said. "It doesn't solve all the problems, but it can solve the Migron issue."

Netanyahu faces a court order requiring the evacuation of the outpost by April. Thus far, Ynetnews.com said, political opponents have been chiding him for supposedly dragging his feet on the removal of an illegal settlement.

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