Israel to take over 500 dunums of Palestinian land near Nablus

12/30/2015 5:59:59 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Members of the Israeli armed forces at the Howwara checkpoint Nablus West Bank 25 December 2015.. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH

Nablus: Israeli authorities Tuesday issued a military order to take over 500 dunums of Palestinian land located to the south of Nablus according to local sources.

Ghassan Daghlas who monitors settlement activities in northern West Bank told Palestinian WAFA news agency that the Israeli authorities notified local Palestinians in the villages of Jurish and Qusra to the south of Nablus about their intent to take over around 500 dunums of land.

According to the Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now "Over the years Israel has used a number of legal and bureaucratic procedures in order to appropriate West Bank lands with the primary objective of establishing settlements and providing land reserves for them."

"Using primarily these five methods: seizure for military purposes; declaration of state lands; seizure of absentee property; confiscation for public needs; and initial registration Israel has managed to take over about 50% of the lands in the West Bank barring the local Palestinian public from using them."

QNA

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