{"id":3790,"date":"2014-09-01T06:28:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T06:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2014-09-01T06:28:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T06:28:52","slug":"israel-seizes-400-hectares-of-west-bank-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/09\/01\/3790\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel seizes 400 hectares of West Bank land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/israelipmreuters.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>The United States has urged Israel to reverse its decision to seize nearly 400 hectares of land in the occupied West Bank, a move anti-settlement activists termed the largest land grab in 30 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel announced the massive land appropriation on Sunday in the Etzion settlement bloc near Bethlehem just days after Gaza ceasefire.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Palestinian official said the latest land grab by Israel would cause only more friction after the Gaza war that left more than 2,000 Palestinians dead and over 10,000 injured.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, called on Israel to cancel the appropriation. &#8220;This decision will lead to more instability. This will only inflame the situation after the war in Gaza,&#8221; presidential spokesman Abu Rdainah said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A US State Department official called the announcement as &#8220;counterproductive to Israel&#8217;s stated goal of a negotiated two-state solution with the Palestinians&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We urge the government of Israel to reverse this decision,&#8221; the official said in Washington.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peace Now group, which opposes Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank, territory the Palestinians seek for a state, said the appropriation was meant to turn a site where 10 families now live adjacent to a Jewish seminary into a permanent settlement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>International criticism<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Construction of a major settlement at the location, known as &#8220;Gevaot&#8221;, has been mooted by Israel since 2000. Last year, the government invited bids for the building of 1,000 housing units at the site.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peace Now said the land seizure was the largest announced by Israel in the West Bank since the 1980s and that anyone with ownership claims had 45 days to appeal. A local Palestinian mayor said Palestinians owned the tracts and harvested olive trees on them.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel has come under international criticism over its settlement activities, which most countries regard as illegal under international law and a major obstacle to the creation of a viable Palestinian state in any future peace deal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel has said construction at Gevaot would not constitute the establishment of a new settlement because the site is officially designated a neighbourhood of an existing one, Alon Shvut, several kilometres down the road.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">About 500,000 Israelis live among 2.4 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, territory that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <strong><em>Aljazeera<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has urged Israel to reverse its decision to seize nearly 400 hectares of land in the occupied West Bank, a move anti-settlement activists termed the largest land grab in 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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