7-29-2020 ‘I want Battir to go to hell’: Settlers move in on Palestinian World Heritage site - Yuval Abraham +972

https://www.972mag.com/settlers-battir-illegal-outpost/

Palestinians in the West Bank agricultural village of Battir are encountering armed Israeli settlers trying to push them off their land….  "In 1982, Israel declared his property, along with a substantial portion of the land in the area, "state land," using the Ottoman Land Code — a 19th century legal mechanism adopted by Israel that gives it the authority to turn uncultivated agricultural land into state land….People are crammed into cities where space is running out… Palestinian cities are turning into ghettoes, concrete refugee camps. It is impossible to grow food on concrete. From a rich agricultural society, we are growing dependent on Israeli companies to feed us." There is nothing coincidental about the settlers' decision to build their tent on Alyan's land.

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

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