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Tensions before Israel vote on legalising outposts

AFP

Israeli MPs were on Wednesday to vote on two bills to retroactively legalise settler homes built on private Palestinian land, in a move which has sharply divided Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition. The move is an attempt to circumvent a Supreme Court ruling ordering the removal of…