Sunday brought even more bad news for Palestinians here: Israeli authorities announced that nearly 400 hectares of land nearby - in what they refer to as the Etzion settlement bloc - are now state land. This means they are no longer privately owned by Palestinians, and therefore can be used for possible settlement construction. Todays announcement clearly represents Israels deliberate intent to wipe out any Palestinian presence on the land and to wilfully impose a de facto one-state solution, she added. In 1948, we had 12,000 dunams [12 square kilometres] of agricultural land, Sukkar said. Today that number has dwindled to 2,600 [dunams]. We are only allowed to farm on 250 dunams of those. Thats why we will go to the [Israeli] courts. We will not stand idly as Israel carves up and snatches our land.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 04:19:14 +0000
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