Israel proposes taking more West Bank land for Jewish settlers

Posted By on August 31, 2014

JERUSALEM The Israeli government announced Sunday that it would appropriate almost 1,000 acres of land in the West Bank that could be used to build homes for Jewish settlers. The Israeli group Peace Now, which opposes expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, called it the largest land appropriation in 30 years. The Civil Administration, the Israeli military authority responsible for implementing government policy in the West Bank, said the decision was based on the instructions of the political leadership after Operation Brothers Keeper, the security sweep in June that followed the killing of three Israeli teens abducted in the area.

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Israel proposes taking more West Bank land for Jewish settlers

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