Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Netanyahu ordered the dismantling of illegal settlements in the West Bank

Jerusalem. .- The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered to dismantle those structures in settlements and Jewish enclaves built on private Palestinian land in the West Bank before the end of the year, his office announced today. The decision, which, as explained by the Office of the Prime Minister, seeks to reduce the number of such enclaves, responding to a lawsuit filed by the Israeli peace organization Ajshav Shalom (Peace Now) to be dismantled six of them erected in the territory Palestinian.

The Israeli government decided earlier this month to demolish all the illegal outposts erected on private land, but throughout the West Bank is under occupation since 1967 - but had not yet set a deadline to undertake these removals. The measure did not include a house owned by an Israeli army officer killed on private Palestinian land.

At the same time, the Israeli government will work to legalize those enclaves built on land Israel considered by the State. The Israeli authorities consider illegal outposts all those settlements, the most rudimentary, built without government approval after March 2001, when Ariel Sharon became prime minister.

For Palestinians and the international community all settlements built in occupied territory after the Six Day War (1967) are illegal and pose a serious obstacle to peace and the creation of a future Palestinian state. Israel undertook in 2003 to accept the road map peace plan drafted by the international community to dismantle all existing Jewish enclaves in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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