Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said he plans to review the legality of some 40 hilltop settlements established in the West Bank during the last months of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. He added Wednesday that any settlement deemed illegal would be dismantled.
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