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Occupation magazine - Settlements Home page  back Print  Send To friend The case of Eli: How Palestinian land becomes "state land" and then becomes settler land https://www.keremnavot.org/enalibaba https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/cdb1a7_2b638a39383c411a9e3c6481f1fec8c6.pdf On March 30, 2017, Yossi Segal, an official in the Civil Administration responsible for `abandoned government property` in the West Bank, signed a declaration titled ‘Eli - Palgei Mayim and Giv`at Haroeh - Declaration of Government Property.’ The declared territory includes 977 dunams within the area between the cities of Ramallah and Nablus - land belonging to the four Palestinian villages of: Sinjil, Qaryut, As Sawiya, and Al Lubban ash Sharqiya. The declaration had two objectives: 1. To retroactively legalize the illegal outpost of Palgei Mayim and the access road to the outpost of Givat Haroeh. 2. To prepare the legal basis for the future expansion of the settlement of Eli and its surrounding outposts. This document is devoted to an in-depth analysis of how the Civil Administration`s land survey team (which is responsible for locating and mapping land to be designated state land), drew the lines defining the current declaration of Eli. To accurately map territory that Israel considers `state land` in the West Bank, there appears to be vast importance in its near exclusive allocation to settlers, while maintaining that it doesn`t harm the private property of Palestinian residents. This issue recently made headlines when Ha`aretz reported that Attorney General Mandelblit approved a plan to allow for the expropriation of private Palestinian-owned land on which settlements were built, on the condition that the expropriation was made mistakenly, in `good faith.` Links to the latest articles in this section Palestinian killed while protesting settlement expansion Netanyahu repeatedly dismisses US objections to building beyond Green Line ‘The settlers brought caravans and put them on a hill next to us’