Under an emerging plan to dismantle settlements, Israel is considering moving Gaza Strip settlers to West Bank areas that Israel wants to annex under a final peace deal, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman said Friday.
"We are doing checks, including that the (Gaza) settlers will be evacuated to the settlements that will certainly remain with us under a final status agreement, such as Maale Adumim, Ariel and Gush Etzion," PM's spokesman Assaf Shariv said Friday, referring to the three largest blocs of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Sharon - who announced earlier in the week plans to dismantle 17 Gaza Strip settlements and some West Bank communities in the next two years - is looking at several options and will present them to US officials, the spokesman added. "