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greets
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Condoleezza Rice in
Jerusalem on June 19.

DAN BARON

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jerusalem
ust as the cracks were showing in
Israel's attempt to coordinate its
upcoming Gaza Strip withdrawal
with the Palestinian Authority, in
stepped the United States to cement a
deal.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, visiting the region ahead of a meet-
ing this week of the Israeli and
Palestinian leaders, announced that the
sides had agreed on a solution for a
pressing issue in Gaza — the fate of
some 1,200 Israeli homes to be evacuat-
ed in August.
"Israel and the Palestinian Authority
agree that the settler homes in Gaza
should be removed," Rice told reporters
after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon. "Therefore the parties will work
toward a plan for destruction and
cleanup."
The deal has symbolic value, given the
distrust that has dogged efforts to secure
a smooth pullout, but it was quickly
overshadowed by an eruption of violence
in Gaza.
Palestinian terrorists killed an Israeli
soldier near Rafah, a flashpoint town on
the Egyptian border, and wounded two
others. Army return fire killed a gun-
man.
Israel has made clear that a cessation
of Palestinian violence is a precondition

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for its withdrawal from Gaya and the
northern West Bank and for any
resumption of moves to implement the
"road map" peace plan.
Rice, who met Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on
Saturday, echoed Israel's concerns about
lack of progress on disarming the terror-
ists. But she also said that the Palestinian
leader was "in a difficult internal strug-
gle," an allusion to resistance he faces
from popular armed groups such as
Hamas.
Israel's Ariel Sharon noted that
Sunday's Rafah ambush was carried out
by Islamic Jihad and a splinter group of
Abbas' own Fatah Party, suggesting
recognition by Israel that a de facto truce
Abbas brokered among major
Palestinian terrorist groups is largely
holding.
In the end, Rice called on Israel and
the Palestinian Authority to work
together for a secure handover of Gala.
"Both Israel and the Palestinian
Authority will take the necessary actions
and will coordinate such actions where
appropriate to ensure a peaceful disen-
gagement and economic viability and
hope for the Palestinian people," she
said, without giving details.
Rice also reiterated the Bush adminis-
tration's dissatisfaction with Jewish settle-
ment expansion in the West Bank,
exhorting Israel not to place "facts on
the ground" that could prejudge peace
talks with the Palestinians.

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