by Ariel Kahana
Regavim advocacy group claims Palestinians are using extensive EU-funded agricultural activity to take over strategic areas with the aim of creating facts on the ground ahead of any peace deal
The Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar
Photo: AP
A new report
presented to the Knesset's Subcommittee on Judea and Samaria on
Thursday claims that the Palestinian Authority is using extensive
EU-funded agricultural activity to take over lands in the area.
The report was compiled by Regavim, a
nongovernmental organization that describes its mission as seeking to
"ensure responsible, legal, accountable and environmentally friendly
use of Israel's national lands."
The findings claim that the PA's activity
follows a specific plan that focuses on Area C of Judea and Samaria,
which under the 1993 Oslo Accords is under full Israeli control, with
aim of setting facts on the ground so that such agricultural lands
would be recognized as Palestinian in any future peace deal.
The report also criticizes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's for his decision to postpone the eviction of Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin village that was illegally built some 6 miles east of Jerusalem.
The High Court of Justice cleared the way for the village's eviction, but international uproar has given the government pause and it was eventually decided to defer the move.
The report slams the government's response
to the "Palestinian takeover" of the area where Khan al-Ahmar is
located, between the Israeli communities of Maaleh Adumim and Kfar
Adumim, calling it "weak to nonexistent."
Regavim claims that the Palestinians'
agricultural takeover of lands in Area C takes place in three ways:
first, paving hundreds of miles of roads that access lands in strategic
locations such as the Jordan Valley, Gush Etzion, Ariel and Mount
Hebron; second, usurping water resources and setting up illegal grids
of water pipes; and third, usurping hundreds of acres of land and
setting up agricultural infrastructure.
The report outlines the careful Palestinian
choice of areas of diplomatic and security importance and names the
various organizations involved in this activity.
"If the government does not come to its
senses and does something now, the Palestinian plan will create
irrevocable changes and facts on the ground," the report warns.
Ariel Kahana
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/11/01/report-exposes-palestinian-ploy-to-use-agriculture-to-usurp-land-in-judea-and-samaria-%e2%80%8e/
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