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State ignored illegal transfer of land to settlers

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Published: 14 November 2015

Last updated: 4 March 2024

State ignored illegal transfer of land to settlers - Chaim Levinson - Haaretz 10.11.15
Contradicting express government instruction, Civil Administration, World Zionist Organisation Settlement Division and other entities allocated private Palestinian land in Jordan Valley to settler farmers in the 1980s. Plia Albeck, Director of the Civil Department in the State Prosecutor’s Office: “All these entities knowingly acted in total contradiction of the government decision, in contradiction of the procedures and orders that had been decided on, and while concealing their activities from the legal authorities in the Justice Ministry and the defence establishment.”
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