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Israel Seized Palestinian Family's East Jerusalem Land Behind Its Back, Gave It to Settler NGO
Read more @: Israel Seized Palestinian Family's East Jerusalem Land Behind Its Back, Gave It to Settler NGO
This is unjust pure and simple. There is so much work that goes into manipulating, fudging, and circumventing the law. This is easily done in the West Bank by the Israeli settler lobby, the West Bank where Palestinians are essentially unable to fine and property registrations post 1967. The legal machinery is being weaponized against the Palestinian population in the West Bank. Where it is not/cannot be weaponized as in this case the settler lobby tries every single trick in the book to essentially commit theft and anyone who wants to keep their land/property has to keep fighting for it for years and years.
Israel expropriated land from an East Jerusalem Palestinian family without a tender and against the rules, then handed it over to Amana, an organization that works to establish settlements and outposts, Haaretz has learned.
Some months ago Amana began building a large office building on the land for its headquarters. Documents submitted for an administrative petition against the land transfer reveals that the state used strenuous bureaucratic acrobatics to deliver land that didn’t belong to it.
The plan was prepared and approved without the family knowing of the expropriation. The property map was redrawn to legitimize the expropriations, and related documents were hidden from the owners. The Jerusalem District Court rejected the Palestinian family’s petition, which is being appealed to the Supreme Court.
Amana, founded by the Gush Emunim religious settlement movement in 1979, is the most important private body for establishing and expanding West Bank settlements.
The company made headlines last month after two of its executives, secretary general Zeev Hever and treasurer Moshe Yogev, were investigated over alleged corruption. The company owns Al-Watan, which has been repeatedly involved in deals buying land from Palestinian owners that turned out to be forged.
Read more @: Israel Seized Palestinian Family's East Jerusalem Land Behind Its Back, Gave It to Settler NGO
This is unjust pure and simple. There is so much work that goes into manipulating, fudging, and circumventing the law. This is easily done in the West Bank by the Israeli settler lobby, the West Bank where Palestinians are essentially unable to fine and property registrations post 1967. The legal machinery is being weaponized against the Palestinian population in the West Bank. Where it is not/cannot be weaponized as in this case the settler lobby tries every single trick in the book to essentially commit theft and anyone who wants to keep their land/property has to keep fighting for it for years and years.