[[{"content_id":"303090","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"114","user_id":"6","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Israel seeks to legalize 3,500 outposts on private Palestinian lands","content_number":"","content_date_event":"2017-08-25 16:29:27","content_summary":"Israel has reportedly established nearly 3,500 Israeli structures on privately-owned Palestinian lands in the West Bank, seeking to legalize them under a new law.","content_summary_fill":"1","content_body":" \r\n\r\nIsrael has reportedly established nearly 3,500 Israeli structures on privately-owned Palestinian lands in the West Bank, seeking to legalize them under a new law.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAccording to data released by Israel’s civil administration, 3,455 homes and buildings were built in three categories of private land in the West Bank, which are considered illegal under both Israeli and international law, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe first category includes 1,285 structures constructed on “clearly private land” that has never been considered as part of Israel.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMeanwhile, 543 structures in the first category have been built on formally-registered land belonging to Palestinian owners, referred to as “regularized private land” by the civil administration.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe other structures were found to be established in privately-owned lands after aerial photos revealed that the lands have been cultivated by Palestinians for years. Under Ottoman-era laws which are still applicable in the West Bank, such lands belong to the Palestinians who were cultivating them.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe second category includes 1,048 Israeli buildings “built on private land that had earlier been erroneously designated” Israeli land.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe third category covers 1,122 buildings constructed in the West Bank more than 20 years ago “when planning laws were barely enforced in the West Bank.”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nUnder Israel’s controversial outpost Regularization law passed earlier this year, all of the mentioned structures could be retroactively legalized.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe law stipulates that Israel will formally recognize any settlements built in the occupied West Bank “in good faith” -- without knowledge that its land was privately owned by Palestinians –if the settler provides minimal proof of the regime’s support for its construction as well as some form of compensation to the Palestinian landowners.","content_html":"

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Israel has reportedly established nearly 3,500 Israeli structures on privately-owned Palestinian lands in the West Bank, seeking to legalize them under a new law.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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According to data released by Israel’s civil administration, 3,455 homes and buildings were built in three categories of private land in the West Bank, which are considered illegal under both Israeli and international law, Israeli daily Haaretz <\/em>reported on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The first category includes 1,285 structures constructed on “clearly private land” that has never been considered as part of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Meanwhile, 543 structures in the first category have been built on formally-registered land belonging to Palestinian owners, referred to as “regularized private land” by the civil administration.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The other structures were found to be established in privately-owned lands after aerial photos revealed that the lands have been cultivated by Palestinians for years. Under Ottoman-era laws which are still applicable in the West Bank, such lands belong to the Palestinians who were cultivating them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The second category includes 1,048 Israeli buildings “built on private land that had earlier been erroneously designated” Israeli land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The third category covers 1,122 buildings constructed in the West Bank more than 20 years ago “when planning laws were barely enforced in the West Bank.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Under Israel’s controversial outpost Regularization law passed earlier this year, all of the mentioned structures could be retroactively legalized.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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The law stipulates that Israel will formally recognize any settlements built in the occupied West Bank “in good faith” -- without knowledge that its land was privately owned by Palestinians –if the settler provides minimal proof of the regime’s support for its construction as well as some form of compensation to the Palestinian landowners.<\/span><\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2017-08-25 16:29:27","content_date_finish":"2017-08-25 16:29:27","content_date_register":"2017-08-25 16:30:32","content_date_last_edit":"2017-08-25 16:30:32","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"1422979660","attach_date_register":"2017-08-25 16:30:30","attach_id":"407285","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"400","attach_img_height":"242","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"1","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"471","visit_date_last":"2025-05-13 14:21:41","attach_title":"Israel seeks to legalize 3,500 outposts on private Palestinian lands 2","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]