JERUSALEM — Ending months of angry opposition, several Jewish settler leaders agreed yesterday to sit down with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to discuss Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

The meeting, set for today, was the latest sign that some settlers have come to terms with their failure to scuttle the plan and are preparing for life after the pullout this summer. Agreement by a majority of settlers to cut a deal would reduce the threat of confrontations.

Settlers are demanding higher compensation from the government for giving up their homes. And some leaders, who are urging followers to refrain from violence, say they want to move their tight-knit communities as a group to Israel.

Zevulun Orlev, a pro-settler legislator who helped organize tomorrow's meeting, said the participants would outline settlers' concerns for Sharon. "We want the meeting to be the start of a dialogue between the prime minister and the settlers," he said.

While Orlev said he still bitterly opposed the withdrawal, he acknowledged its inevitability. "We have to understand that we have to prepare for the possibility of the day after," he said.

The meeting follows a bruising but failed struggle in parliament to defeat Sharon's plan for uprooting all 21 settlements in Gaza and four small settlements in the West Bank. Sharon says removal of these communities, where 9,000 people live, will improve Israel's security and help consolidate control over larger West Bank settlements.

Sharon reportedly told a parliamentary committee yesterday that Israel should press forward with plans to connect the largest Jewish settlement in the West Bank to Jerusalem despite strong U.S. and Palestinian objections.

"This program has been in existence for 10 years. We should definitely move ahead with it," Sharon was quoted as saying by a meeting participant.

Palestinian officials condemned Sharon's comments. The Palestinians say that project will prevent them from setting up a viable independent state with east Jerusalem as their capital.

Many settlers have turned their attention to the future, particularly how much money they will receive.

Yonatan Bassi, head of the government body in charge of paying compensation, acknowledged such concerns. "I think that for most of the settlers, the compensation is reasonable. There are certain groups for whom the compensation truly is very low," he told Channel Two television.

Bassi said he expected payments to begin within days.

Under current guidelines, settler families are expected to receive about $200,000 to $300,000, depending on the size of their home and other factors.

Palestinians object to Israel's dump plan

JERUSALEM — Israel plans to dispose of garbage on Palestinian land in the West Bank, and a Palestinian official denounced the plan yesterday as violating international law, saying the area should not become a "dumping ground."

The dump is to be built in a Palestinian quarry between the Jewish settlement of Kedumim and the West Bank town of Nablus, said Adam Avidan, a spokesman for the military's civil administration.

The site is already being used. Yesterday, there were thousands of tires, plastic bags full of household trash and plastic beverage bottles mixed in with construction debris in the old quarry.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the plan violates international law.

"We are not the dumping ground for Tel Aviv's garbage," he said, adding the Palestinians would complain to Mideast mediators and the World Health Organization.