Under the road map, Israel is supposed to dismantle dozens of isolated settlement outposts set up in the last three years.

"The issue of settlement outposts cannot be postponed until after the Gaza withdrawal," said the senior administration official.

The troubles began five years ago when the settlement outposts first went up, he said, and they have continued unabated.

Israel is to remove illegal settlement outposts and freeze settlements.

Israel is also supposed to remove the dozens of settlement outposts built since March 2001.

The group says that more than 100 illegal settlement outposts have sprouted in the last few years.

And responding to its road map obligations, Israel has begun to dismantle new settlement outposts.

In addition, Israel must take down small settlement outposts that have gone up since March 2001.

The Israelis could begin by dismantling some of the several dozen new settlement outposts established over the last 18 months.

Just a few days ago, we exposed more illegal settlement outposts.