11-21-217 Despite Initial Promise, Israel Moves to Seize Private Palestinian Land in West Bank - Yotam Berger Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.824008

 

The state has said it is attempting to legalize the expropriation of some 45 dunams that are part of the West Bank settlement of Ofra and were initially seized by mistake….Hundreds of dunams in the area where Ofra now stands were originally expropriated in 1966 by Jordan…The state's brief appears to be the first application of a legal opinion Mendelblit wrote in late 2016, in which he supported using Article 5 of the Government Property Order. The opinion stated that land like that in Ofra, which the state transferred to a third party out of a mistaken belief that it was state land, would be reregistered in the names of the Palestinian owners' names, who would receive financial compensation for its use but not regain acces to their land. The land would thus be de facto expropriated yet belong to its Palestinian owners de jure.

 

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