A new report from the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center indicates that 2012 will likely be a year of unprecedented growth in the settlements. The Netanyahu government has stepped up its efforts to build thousands of new housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Also this week, the Israeli authorities confiscated 76 dunams of agricultural land from the village of Khas, east of Bet Lehem, under the pretext that it was "absentee property," now to be annexed to Jerusalem. Why is it that the people of Khas were "absent" from their agricultural land? Well, they were prevented from accessing their land since 2007 because Israel built a gigantic fence separating them from it.
Also this week, the Israeli authorities confiscated 76 dunams of agricultural land from the village of Khas, east of Bet Lehem, under the pretext that it was "absentee property," now to be annexed to Jerusalem. Why is it that the people of Khas were "absent" from their agricultural land? Well, they were prevented from accessing their land since 2007 because Israel built a gigantic fence separating them from it.
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