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HAARETZ: Israel to legalize four West Bank settlement outposts slated for demolition

maggio 17, 2013 at 11:41 am
Peace Now calls plan, revealed days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returns to region to try to restart peace talks, a ‘slap in the face.’
By Reuters and Chaim Levinson,  May.16, 2013 

Israel plans to legalize four unauthorized West Bank settlement outposts already slated for demolition, a court document showed, days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returns to the region to try to restart peace talks.

In a document submitted to the High Court of Justice on Tuesday, the state said that it will act to legalize four West Bank outposts for which a delimitation order was issued in 2003 by the Israel Defense Forces GOC Central Command. Such an order allows the army to demolish at any time structures located within the delimited area.

In 2007, attorneys Michael Sfard and Shlomi Zecharya petitioned the High Court on behalf of the Israeli anti-settlement organization Peace Now, to implement the order. Since then, the state has changed its position several times, but in February 2011 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided that these outposts, which are located on privately owned lands, would be demolished.

The delimitation order does not distinguish between privately-owned and state lands; as a result, construction in the outposts continued despite the order. The High Court requested clarification from the state, and on Tuesday a detailed opinion concerning each one of the four outpost was submitted to the court. In the document, the government said it had taken steps in recent weeks to retroactively authorize the outposts, which were built without official permission.

The four outposts in question are: Givat Asaf, located near Beit El; Mitzpeh Lakhish in the southern Hebron hills; Ma’aleh Rehavam in Gush Etzion; and Givat Haroeh, which is located near the settlement of Eli.

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Haaretz: The organization behind illegal West Bank outpost construction

maggio 16, 2013 at 9:27 am

With friends in high places, law-evading ploys and piles of money in the bank, veteran settler leader Ze’ev Hever and his organization Amana are seemingly immune to Israeli legal action.

By Chaim Levinson

Theoretically, the Civil Administration – the Israel Defense Forces body responsible for infrastructure law enforcement in the West Bank – should have jumped into action now that seven permanent dwellings are under construction in the settler outpost of Mitzpeh Danny (10 kilometers east of Ramallah). The outpost, established 15 years ago, is entering its final development stages after a lengthy period in which the settlers lived in trailers, flimsy structures and all kinds of patchwork arrangements.

According to its mandate and the order of priorities it has set for itself, the Civil Administration is supposed to demolish these new structures. Uninhabited new structures are second in the Civil Administration’s list of tasks (first comes the implementation of court orders), based on the approach that the demolition of inhabited homes generates a human tragedy and a political brouhaha.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for the new homes to be razed. They are being built by Amana, a cooperative society headed by the legendary Ze’ev (‘Zambish’) Hever, 59, one of the leaders of the settlement enterprise in the territories and a member of the Jewish Underground, a militant terrorist organization that operated in the West Bank in the 1980s. The homes in Mitzpeh Danny are being built according to one of Amana’s three basic models: When you’re building the Land of Israel, you don’t get caught up in architectural niceties.

There are two types of settler outposts in the territories:

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In South Hebron, ‘new rules’ are rather like the ‘old rules’

maggio 2, 2013 at 8:40 am

By David Shulman; Published April 29 2013 on +972blog

Security forces are targeting Israeli activists and Palestinian shephards in new ways in the South Hebron hills. It’s as if they’d decided to circumvent the whole irksome apparatus of the courts and to resort instead to brute force. It’s much simpler, and maybe more effective.

 

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+972: Threat of demolition looms over Palestinian village in West Bank

gennaio 31, 2013 at 6:43 am

The Palestinian village of Susya, which has been through numerous demolitions and forced expulsions, beginning in 1986, is facing yet another threat to its existence. This time, the fate of the entire village lays in the hands of Israel’s Supreme Court.

By Rabbis for Human Rights

On Thursday, Israel’s Supreme Court will hold two sessions regarding two petitions affecting the future of the Palestinian village Susya. One will discuss the possibility of expediting the demolition of most of the village, while the other seeks to prevent the villagers’ remaining lands from being rendered off limits to them.

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Avete il diritto di capire

gennaio 23, 2013 at 8:49 am

È il 15 dicembre e nel quartiere arabo di Wadi Nis Nas (Haifa) si festeggia “la festa delle feste”, un evento che celebra contemporaneamente Hannukah, Eid Al-Adha e Natale. C’è chi lo considera un bel modo di ribadire la tradizionale tolleranza della città, chi lo guarda con sospetto e chi invece lo taccia d’ipocrisia. Per i bambini significa “zucchero filato” e per noi, invece, che ci metteremo una vita ad attraversare il centro.
Stiamo andando alla Prigione Militare numero 6, una modesta costruzione che si trova a ridosso del Monte Carmelo, proprio dietro alla zona balenare. Ci sarà una manifestazione per Nathan, un ragazzo imprigionato dopo aver rifiutato la leva come atto di protesta contro l’occupazione.

 

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+972: IDF evicts Palestinians from their land, arrests 15, including mother with baby

gennaio 20, 2013 at 12:41 pm

Mairav Zonsein- January 19, 2013

The Israeli army arrested 10 Palestinians and five Israelis in the South Hebron Hills today (Saturday) while they were trying to reach Palestinian-owned land next to the illegal outpost called Mitzpeh Yair, in the southern West Bank.

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UN official calls for action, as Volvo machines used to demolish Palestinian homes

gennaio 17, 2013 at 11:53 am

Adri Nieuwhof,  electronicintifada (http://snipurl.com/265hh5n)

On 4 December 2012, Israeli forces used Volvo equipment to demolish a mosque in the Palestinian village al-Mufaqarah in the south Hebron hills.

At sunrise, Israeli police and soldiers arrived to protect the Volvo machine and to keep Palestinians at a distance. The mosque was built on the ruins of another mosque that was destroyed about a year ago. Watch the raw footage of the destruction, above, as published by the al-Tuwani project (http://snipurl.com/265hj1q).

Volvo Group’s activities have drawn the attention of UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk. In a recent report to the UN General Assembly, Falk addresses the legal responsibility of business enterprises and corporations in activities relating to Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank, presenting Volvo as a case study.

Falk recommends civil society to “vigorously pursue initiatives to boycott, divest and sanction” the companies mentioned in his report, until they bring their policies and practices into line with international laws and standards.

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Ha’aretz: E-1 protest marks change of tactics by Palestinian activists

gennaio 14, 2013 at 10:05 am

Ha’aretz, 14.01.2013, Amira Hass

The Palestinian Popular Committees are facing a contradiction: They won the attention of the world, but failed to spark a mass movement against the occupation.

The idea of setting up a protest tent village in E-1 gained momentum over the past few weeks among members of the Palestinian Popular Committees – the same committees that for 10 years have been organizing weekly demonstrations in the West Bank against the Israeli occupation in general, and against the separation fence and settlements in particular.

 

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Ha’aretz: Netanyahu to ask High Court to allow eviction of Palestinian E1 tent camp

gennaio 13, 2013 at 6:26 am

Ha’aretz, 12.01.2013, Barak Ravid and Chaim Levinson

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday ordered Israel’s security forces to evacuate a tent camp set up by hundreds of Palestinians in the E1 area, east of Jerusalem.

Netanyahu’s decision contradicted a temporary injunction ordered by Israel’s High Court on Saturday preventing the state from evicting the Palestinians from the outpost.

The Prime Minister’s Bureau said in a statement released on Saturday that the state would submit a request to the High Court on Saturday night asking it to cancel the injunction.

According to the statement, Netanyahu has ordered that the site be declared a closed military zone and that all access roads leading to the site of the tent camp be closed by security forces until the High Court decides on the matter, in order to prevent additional people from gathering at the site.

Some 200 Palestinians and international peace activists set up the tent camp on Friday morning, giving it the name “Bab al-Shams.”

On Saturday, Israel Police kept additional activists from reaching the site. Police also prevented senior Palestinian officials Saeb Erakat and Hanan Ashrawi from visiting the area.

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Ha’aretz: The settlers’ aim: Occupy Israel

gennaio 3, 2013 at 11:16 pm

Ha’aretz, 03.01.2013 – Ari Shavit

The old occupation was the occupation of Palestine. It started with the military occupation of the West Bank and continued with the settlement occupation of the West Bank, and has reached the point where some 360,000 Israelis live today in the West Bank. At the same time that the smaller occupation of the Gaza Strip failed, the large occupation of the West Bank has done quite well.

In the past it prevented a peace agreement with Jordan, interfered with the interim agreement with the Palestinians and prevented a unilateral withdrawal. The old occupation succeeded in causing a Palestinian state not to be founded, the Land of Israel not to be divided and a single governmental entity to sprawl from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Even though the old occupation was anachronistic and disadvantageous from the very beginning, it showed impressive vitality and achieved most of its goals. This surprising success allowed it to continue on and mount an attack on the democratic Jewish state next to the West Bank.

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