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Israel allows Palestinians to return from Libya

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 violence-plagued Libya for the West Bank.
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February 23, 2011

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 violence-plagued Libya for the West Bank.

More than a dozen countries sent airplanes to Libya to evacuate their citizens. Thousands are reported dead in protests calling for an end to Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi’s 41-year reign; Gadhafi took power in a 1969 coup.

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