The current government has
already decided to evacuate three outposts, including Migron (shown),
after petitions were submitted to the High Court.
|Photo credit: Oren Nachson
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After weeks of negotiations with the justice
system, the state announced on Monday that it will evacuate two settler
families who live in the Beit Ezra building in Hebron. The families took
over the building about a decade ago and have lived there ever since.
Until 1948, the property belonged to Jews who abandoned it, and
beginning in the 1960s it was leased to Palestinians by the Israeli
Custodian of Absentee Property. The area in which Beit Ezra is located
once served as Hebron's wholesale market but has been deserted since it
was evacuated in the 1990s. However, its proximity to the Jewish quarter
of Hebron has made it an appealing location for the Jewish families
that live there.
A few years ago, the families were given
orders to evict the building. The families appealed against the eviction
orders to a military appeals committee which determined that even
though the families seized the property, Jews are allowed to live there
due to its history of Jewish ownership.
In 2010, the Peace Now organization petitioned
the High Court against the decision. The Netanyahu government has since
been deliberating on whether to allow the families to stay there.
On Monday, the state reached a decision and
announced that the families would be evacuated after a heated debated
between Likud ministers and the attorney-general. The ministers wanted
the attorney-general to commit that, despite forcing the current Jewish
residents to leave, he will allow other Jews to live in the building in
the future. However, the attorney-general said that there was no link
between the current evacuation of Beit Ezra and what would be done with
the property later.
The right-wing government has already decided to
evacuate three outposts as a result of three petitions submitted to the
High Court: Ulpana Hill, Migron, and now also Beit Ezra.
Israel Hayom
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=6762
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