Israel under fire over illegal West Bank landgrab
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Israel yesterday confirmed it was planning to appropriate a large tract of fertile land in the occupied West Bank, close to Jordan, a move that is likely to exacerbate tensions with Western allies and draw international condemnation.
Israel鈥檚 Defense Ministry said the political decision to seize the territory had already been taken and 鈥渢he lands are in the final stages of being declared state lands.鈥 The appropriation covers 154 hectares in the Jordan Valley close to Jericho, an area where Israel already has many settlement farms built on land Palestinians seek for a state.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday denounced the seizure, which is the largest appropriation in the West Bank since August 2014.
鈥淪ettlement activities are a violation of international law and run counter to the public pronouncements of the government of Israel supporting a two-state solution to the conflict,鈥 Ban said in a statement.
The land, already partly farmed by Jewish settlers in an area fully under Israeli control, is near the northern tip of the Dead Sea.
Palestinian officials denounced the seizure on Wednesday, with Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, calling it a violation of international law.
She said: 鈥淭his should be a reason for a real and effective intervention by the international community to end such a flagrant and grave aggression which kills all chances of peace.鈥
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