MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Arbitrary eviction of Palestinans (Israel)
Joshua Landis@joshua_landis 10 August 2020
40-year-old document reveals Ariel Sharon’s plan to evict 1,000 Palestinians from their homes by declaring area “a military shooting zone for the sole purpose of removing its residents.”
40-year-old Document Reveals Ariel Sharon’s Plan to Evict 1,000 Palestinians From Their Homes
Minutes of an 1981 ministerial meeting indicate that Sharon, who would later become Israel’s prime minister, proposed allocating West Bank land to the Israeli army for the sole purpose of forcing Palestinians out of their homes
Ofer Aderet Published on 09.08.2020 HAARETZ
A 40-year-old document found in the Israel State Archives recently offers a rare look into the state’s actions to force Palestinians from their homes. It shows that in the 1980s, the state declared an area as a military shooting zone for the sole purpose of removing its residents.
The document was submitted to the High Court of Justice in July, in a bid to help a few hundred Palestinians who remained in the vicinity of Yatta, a town in the South Hebron Hills, to fight the ………