Israeli coalition faces early test over illegal West Bank settlement
by Bethan McKernan, Stefanie Glinski in Beita and Qui from World news | The Guardian on (#5KT1A)
Leftwing Israelis accuse new government of kowtowing to right in deal to evacuate Evyatar outpost
Leftwing Israelis have accused the new government of kowtowing to the right over the handling of an illegal settlement near the West Bank city of Nablus, in what is viewed as an early test of the ideologically divided coalition's stability.
About 50 Jewish families who have moved to the Evyatar settlement over the last two months, building on a hilltop claimed by Palestinian olive farmers, agreed to vacate the land on Friday afternoon.
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