Israel 'to grab' Dead Sea shore as property

[TriWooOx]

Israel plans declaring ownership of the West Bank's Dead Sea shore as "state property," to confiscate more Palestinian land, an anti-settlement group says.

"Israeli authorities have announced that they intend to declare as state land some 138,600 dunums (34,650 acres) that has emerged along the Dead Sea in the occupied West Bank due to the drop in the water level," said Hagit Ofran of the Peace Now group Tuesday, quoted by AFP.

The land, which has emerged as a result of Dead Sea shrinkage, is located along the shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank.

According to the anti-settlement group, the amount of land involved may go beyond the shoreline that has surfaced as a consequence of an estimated one meter (yard) drop in the water level per year.

"It would appear that the primary purpose of registering this area as 'state land' is to prevent Palestinian use of the land or any Palestinian assertion of ownership over it," Ofran added.

In the West Bank, "the designation of 'state land' -- land to be held in trust by the occupying power and to be used for the benefit of the indigenous population -- has been abused as a form of de facto expropriation," said the group.

Israel occupied the West Bank during the Six-Day War of 1967, and it has so far "declared or registered huge areas of the West Bank as 'state land' and virtually all of this land has been given over for the exclusive use and exclusive benefit of Israeli settlers and the Israeli military," the group said.

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[hurensohn]

How nice of them, the lake is shrinking and soon Polish jews owns everything or what. oh vey vey.