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Despite the claim, two of the enclaves, Bruchin and Rehalim, were identified as unauthorized outposts in a 2005 government report. The Netanyahu government has reopened that report, saying the objectivity of its author, then-state prosecutor Talia Sasson, is now in question because she later joined an anti-settlement political party. The official also acknowledged the third enclave, Sansana, was supposed to have been built within Israel proper. In a related development, Netanyahu said Tuesday that he would ask Israel's Supreme Court to defer next week's deadline for demolishing five apartment buildings erected illegally in another unauthorized outpost. The court has ruled that the buildings, which house 30 families in the Ulpana outpost outside Jerusalem, must be razed by May 1 because they were built on privately owned Palestinian land. Netanyahu said his government is looking for "legal" ways to prevent the buildings from being demolished. It is not clear if the court would agree to a delay. Decades ago, the court outlawed settlement construction on privately owned Palestinian land. Netanyahu disclosed his plans in a set of rare interviews given to Israeli radio stations on the eve of Israel's Memorial Day, which begins Tuesday night. Some members of Israel's ruling coalition have warned the government would fall if the buildings come down.
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