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12/08/2005:

"U.S. gives Israel a large new camp"

CAMP NACHSHONIM, Israel, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- The United States Tuesday delivered a sprawling storage base it has built for the Israeli army.

The base, Nachshonim, will store equipment for an Israeli armored division.

Nachshonim, which covers almost 400 acres, is the third base the United States has built for Israel under an agreement reached during the 1998 Wye River talks with the Palestinian Authority.

Israel then undertook to turn West Bank areas to the Palestinian Authority and the Clinton administration undertook to provide $1.2 billion to implement the agreement. That included several camps to replace facilities Israel would be vacating in the West Bank.

The United States has since delivered a training base for Israel's paratroop brigade opposite the southern West Bank, another for the Golani infantry brigade opposite the northwestern West Bank, and Tuesday it delivered the storage facility for the Idan reserve division east of Tel Aviv.
upi.com