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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli Court Rules Against Evacuating West Bank Settlement

Right wing Israeli activists from the Nachala Settlement Movement erect a temporary structure as part of a protest calling for the establishment of new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, July 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

The Israeli Supreme Court has cleared the way for Jewish settlers of an outpost in the occupied West Bank to remain in their homes, overturning an earlier eviction order that determined the outpost had been built improperly on privately owned Palestinian land.

In their decision, a panel of judges found that though the Mitzpe Kramim outpost was built on privately owned Palestinian land, it had been allocated to the settlers in “good faith” by the Israeli government. Therefor, the 40 Jewish families living there remain, the judges said, The Associated Press.

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