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Lawfare: Palestinians Fear IDF Has New Legal Tool To Ease West Bank Evictions
[Jpost] Palestinians fear that the IDF has a new legal tool that would make it easier for Israel to demolish illegal structures in Area C of the West Bank, attorney Tawfiq Jabareen told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.Jabareen represents two illegally built Palestinian herding villages in the Jordan Valley, Ein Hilweh and Umm Jamal, which are under threat of IDF demolition. Jabareen has sent a formal appeal to the Military Magistrate- General’s Office on behalf of the villages’ 300 residents. At issue is not just the potential loss of their modular homes, but the use of what Jabareen has described as a new legal tool that could make it easier for the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria to demolish unauthorized Palestinian structures in the future. The order, signed by OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Roni Numa and dated November 1, was not hand-delivered to the village, Jabareen said. It was posted on a road near the villages where it was discovered only on Thursday morning. This specific type of order was created in 2003 to allow the Civil Administration to demolish settler outposts, Jabareen said. At the time it was not intended for use against Palestinians. The use of this order was amended in 2015 and has now been used for the first time against Palestinians, he continued. If its use is upheld, it would make it easier for the IDF to evict Palestinians in other cases in the West Bank. Hopefully, one day all the "Palestinians" will return to whence their ancestors came from during the British mandate Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-13 |
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