This topic's still going... congratulations to the brave Israeli watchdog that is speaking out about this issue, and the Israeli humanitarian groups that spoke out against the situation in Gaza recently. They should be held in the same high esteem as Palestinian moderates.
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Group: Settlements on Palestinian land
By STEVE WEIZMAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 25 minutes ago
JERUSALEM - Nearly 40 percent of West Bank settlements are built on private land seized from Palestinians, an Israeli watchdog group said Tuesday — challenging the government's long-standing assertion the communities were built only on unclaimed territory.
Citing leaked Israeli military documents, Peace Now unveiled a report it said showed settlements were built on Palestinian property seized by the army long after Israel's Supreme Court outlawed the practice in 1979.
"We are talking about an institutional land grab," Dror Etkes, a settlement expert with the group, told reporters in Jerusalem.
