Israel orders expulsion of West Bank detainees

ISRAEL’S military yesterday ordered 15 Palestinian detainees to be expelled from the West Bank and said they would be moved to the Gaza Strip, a decision unprecedented in its scope.

The military has issued such expulsion orders only twice before, when it forced three relatives of Palestinian terror suspects to move from the West Bank to Gaza last year in hopes of stopping future attacks on Israelis.

The three were accused of being accomplices to suicide bombings.