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ISRAEL announced yesterday it was grabbing 370 acres of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank for an illegal settlement.
The Co-ordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), a branch of the Defence Ministry, announced that the area near Jericho would be declared “state land.”
Israeli Army Radio had already revealed the plan on Tuesday, saying the land was north of the illegal Israeli settlement of Almog and had been used by settlers for 20 years.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
