Isarel continues Palestinian land seizure
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 7/8/2006

Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign said the Israeli Occupation Forces engaged in wide-scale land seizure as part of ongoing attacks against the Palestinian people.

It said in a press release that this week saw a flurry of seizure activity in various parts of the West Bank, and in particular targeting the Jordan Valley.

The press release added that large swathes of land were seized and annexed to nearby settlements. Meanwhile, in Hebron district the Israeli occupation continues to steal land necessary for the construction of its Apartheid Wall. The International Court Of Justice had ruled that Israel is unlawfully taking Palestinian lands.

In the Jordan Valley, 1000 dunums were seized from Tubas by a "military order." These lands are next to the Bigot settlement and close to settlement by-pass road number 80.

Palestinian owners of those lands refused to accept the legitimacy of the orders. In the past they have stated that the Occupation forbids them to reach their lands because of "military training." Now, the Occupation seizes the Palestinian land under the rubric of the "absentee law," a common tactic to take Palestinian property for the expansion of Israeli activities in the West Bank.

Meanwhile, Israel seized 400 dunums from Al-Awja, a village north of Jericho to build sniper towers north east of the Al-Awja checkpoint. Al-Awja checkpoint, along with four other checkpoints, forms the central mechanisms to control access from and to the Jordan Valley.

These seizures represent the Occupation strategy to extend control upon the Jordan Valley, subjugate Palestinians to further attacks and ensure the area becomes totally isolated from the rest of West Bank.

In Hebron, the confiscation order was imposed on Suleiman Mahmoud from Beit Ula village in the northwest of the city. The confiscation was for 25 dunums currently planted with grapes.

The land theft comes as the Occupation engages in wide-scale attacks in the West Bank and Gaza which, have left over 50 Palestinians dead in the last month.

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