Israel army dismantles 10 West Bank roadblocks

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JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli army dismantled on Thursday 10 roadblocks in the West Bank, as part of a pledge to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to remove 50 in the occupied region, an army spokeswoman said.

The roadblocks were removed from areas near the towns of Ramallah, Nablus, Qalqilya and Tulkarem in the north of the West Bank, the spokeswoman said.

The army had said on Monday that it had removed a roadblock northeast of Ramallah.

That announcement came a day after Rice secured a pledge from Israel to dismantle 50 West Bank checkpoint to improve the daily lives of Palestinians in order to bolster faltering peace talks formally revived in November.

But Israel's decision was deemed insufficient by the Palestinian Authority.

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