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Modi’in Illit Neighborhood Challenged

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The High Court of Justice is due on to hold a hearing on Sunday concerning two petitions challenging the legality of the procedure in which a Jewish company took possession of 900 dunams of land in the West Bank and the construction of apartment buildings for Jewish settlers on the site.

According to the first petition, filed by Peace Now, several construction companies are building housing in a new neighborhood of Modi’in Illit called Matityahu East without legal building permits and on the basis of a planning scheme not approved by the planning authorities.

The second petition, filed by villagers from Bil’in and Peace Now, charged that the state had declared 900 dunams of Bil’in land to be state-owned, even though it knew that it was not state land.

The petitioners charged that an Israeli company called the Fund for Land Redemption, Planning and Development of Settlements claimed to have purchased the land from Palestinian landowners, but could not register it in its name because the registration had to be confirmed by the mukhtar of the village, and he could not do so without endangering his life.

According to the petition, the state agreed to declare that the land was state land and to keep secret the fact that it was actually acting on behalf of the Fund for Land Redemption which, for its part, could not prove that it had actually purchased the land.

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