Israel Continues to Steal Land on the West Bank

Israel's own peace movement documents continued efforts to steal land on the West Bank. From the Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star:

Nine of every 10 Israeli settlements sprawl beyond their official boundaries in an attempt to grab more land in the occupied West Bank, which the Palestinians claim for a future state, a new report said Friday. Israel's settlements encroach on unallocated land even though most of the area in their own jurisdictions remains empty, according to the report from the dovish group Peace Now.


According to the report, 91 percent of the land allocated to settlements by the government is still empty, indicating that the use of land outside settlement boundaries does not "derive from a land shortage in the settlements" but from "a desire to expropriate more land."


Israeli authorities do little to enforce building laws in the settlements, the report said.