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The withdrawal will ten spread Wednesday to the villages of Kharbata near Ramallah. Yata near Hebron and Kabatiya near Jenin, said spokesman Peter Lerner.

Israel will close its military administration offices in the villages, which handed out work and residency permits for the Jewish state and

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porarlly transferred to the nearby towns before the transfer of powers to the Palestinian authority. "Our aim is to leave populated areas of the West Bank as quickly as possible" Lerner said.

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said earlier Sunday after overnight talks with PLO leader Yasser Arafat that the redeployment would being in 10-20 days time form four villages.