Palestinians sue Israel over land losses to illegal outposts

FIVE Palestinian landowners are suing the state of Israel over the loss of their land to an illegal outpost, in a lawsuit that could set a precedent for tackling Jewish settlement growth in the West Bank.

The case comes as settlers have boasted of rapid expansion of their communities, despite hopes raised last year in a US-backed peace summit that the Jewish state would freeze settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territory.

The lawsuit calls the 40 or so Jewish families who have built trailer homes on the hilltop of Migron, near Ramallah, "ideological robbers of the land" and makes a demand for 1.5 million shekels ($600,000) from the state for failing to remove them.

It says Israel is "betraying its legal and moral obligations and refraining from protecting the plaintiffs and their property and instead is helping the thieves by its actions and lack of action".

The Palestinians, backed by an Israeli human rights group, are petitioning the High Court to order the immediate evacuation of the land, which an earlier inquiry ruled was privately owned by Palestinians.

Orders have been given to move the settlers, but the Government has chosen to negotiate with the settlers' council for them to leave peacefully when housing on an alternative location in the West Bank is finished.

The outpost was seized nine years ago by settlers keen to take control of the area, which they refer to as Judaea and Samaria, its biblical name. The plaintiffs lodged their lawsuit on the weekend.

Michael Sfard, the Israeli lawyer representing the Palestinian landowners, described Israel's refusal to enforce the law as a case of "cops and robbers joining forces, a situation characteristic of countries that are controlled by organised crime or the mafia".

The case is expected to highlight how the state has helped to facilitate the development of the outpost, including the alleged payment of more than four million shekels by the Housing Ministry to connect the outpost to local infrastructure.
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I chose Rachel Correy's explanation/video of what Israel does to illegally take land from innocent Palestinians to the point of murdering these people in order to illegally take possession of their land.

Rachel, herself, was crushed and killed by an Israeli bulldozer as they bulldozed a doctors house she was staying at in Palestine. Her bravery to try and stop the tank will always stand up in the minds of Peace Activists everywhere. Her bravery itself will always be a driving force for us all.

Israel needs to stop taking land from Palestine, give back the land it has taken from when it was passed into law and make peace that will make this world a safer place. Israel is the reason we have so much resistance and hatred from the Arab world today. We are all the same flesh and blood...we all need to get along.

Please note: Certain people on this site will knock this story down despite it being real news. There are cowards that will knock down the score, but don't let it phase you..they are only cowards. We are out to let people know what is not being reported in mainstream media and we aim for reliable sources, and a medium is needed to help get those stories out to the public....This is what CURRENT is all about...freedom of the press..true stories and stories we need to know that is being quashed by the major press/media. Many people are brainwashed as to certain things happening in the world. Many intellegent people already know this. The entire world is under the control of a small handful of media owners directed by governments to report what the government wants. CURRENT is not that, and I hope CURRENT doesn't give in to that Orwellian path.