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Un tractor de Kibbutz Merav trabajando las tierras entre la alambrada de separación y la Línea Verde.
Mapa de la zona en litigio.
Una barda de separación en la ruta a Kibbutz Merav, deja 1500 dunams (375 acres) de tierras palestinas del lado israelí; así es como tierras de propiedad de palestinos pasan forzosamente a la soberanía de Israel.
(Akiva Eldar, diario Haaretz)
Israel se anexó efectivamente tierras palestinas en el norte del Valle del Jordán y le transfirió estas tierras a Kibbutz. Merav, que forma parte del movimiento religioso Kibbutz, se encuentra a 7 km al noroeste de la parcela.
Si bien Israel construye rutas e invade tierras en su movimiento colonialista de ocupación en Cisjordania, esta es la primera vez que se arroga la atribución de otorgar por la fuerza, tierras palestinas usurpadas, a un territorio bajo soberanía reconocida de Israel.
El vocero del Corrdinador de Actividades en los Territorios, Maj.Guy Inbar, confirmó que la propiedad pertenece al territorio palestino de Cisjordania, pero que sin embargo, lleva años que es trabajada de hecho como tierra agrícola por el Kibbutz Merav.
El status legal de esta transferencia de tierras se encuentra en una nebulosa de misterio, la declaración oficial es contradictoria y confusa. Todos los documentos que hasta el momento han tratado de aclarar la situación, han fallado, empañando más las circunstancias.
El Kibbut pertenece al Concejo Regional de Emek Mayanot Regional Council, cuya jurisdicción se encuentra por completo dentro de los límites de la Línea Verde. En uno de los documentos, oficiales del concejo, manifestaron que las tierras están más allá de su jurisdicción y que la Administración israelí de la tierra controla las locaciones de tierras.
Ofer Amar, vocero de la Organización Mundial Zionista de la división de colonias judíasicada como tierra agrícola dentro del Concejo Regional de Emek Mayanot y agregó que la división responsable de las colonias no tiene autordad sobre dicha parcela.
El secretario general de Kibbutz Merav, David Yisrael, confirmó que el kibbutz ha sido trabajado agrícolamente desde hace años, que allí se producen distintos granos, cereales, y cítricos.
An official in the Civil Administration said Yisrael refused to show the contract to his agency, too.
La tierra anexada de forma ilegal, podía notarse desde años a través de imágenes aéreas.
Si esta apropiación de la tierra, tal como ocurrió en los 70s, ocurriera ahora, los grupos israelíes de derechos civiles, lo hubieran prevenido, dijo Etkes.
De acuerdo a la legislación internacional, Israel debe solamente custodiar la tierra de Cisjordania que no es de propiedad privada y tiene absolutamente prohibido entregarla a colonos y mucho menos a pueblos que se encuentran dentro de la soberanía legal de Israel.
En documentos redactados en 2004, consta que, durante las décadas de 1960 y 1970, miles de dunams de propiedad palestina, del Valle del Jordán, fueron entregados a comunidades israelíes.
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Separation barrier route in Kibbutz Merav area changed leaving 1,500 dunams on Israeli side; may be first transfer of Palestinian-owned land to community on sovereign Israeli territory.
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz
The route of the separation barrier in the area was changed so that the plot in question, about 1,500 dunams (375 acres), would be on the Israeli side.
Israel has previously built roads on and given Palestinian land in the West Bank to Jewish settlements, but this is thought to be the first instance of Palestinian-owned land being transferred to a community on sovereign Israeli territory.
A spokesman for the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Maj. Guy Inbar, confirmed that the property is in the West Bank and said, "Kibbutz Merav has been farming this land for decades."
The issue of the land's legal status and its transfer to Merav is clouded in mystery, and official statements have been contradictory. All efforts to locate documents explaining the situation have failed, Inbar said.
The kibbutz is in the Emek Mayanot Regional Council, whose jurisdiction is entirely within the Green Line. In a statement, council officials said the land is beyond its jurisdiction and that the Israel Lands Administration controls land allocations to the council's member communities.
Ofer Amar, a spokesman for the World Zionist Organization's Jewish settlement division said the tract is classified as farmland within the Emek Mayanot Regional Council. He said the settlement division had no authority over the parcel.
Kibbutz Merav's secretary general, David Yisrael, confirmed the kibbutz has been farming the land for years, growing field crops including corn as well as citrus fruit. He said he had a lease with the ILA for it, but refused to show it to Haaretz.
An official in the Civil Administration said Yisrael refused to show the contract to his agency, too.
ILA spokeswoman Ortal Tzabar said the ILA had no knowledge of the matter, as it does not deal with land outside sovereign Israeli territory.
"There is a straight line from plundering these 1,500 dunams to Amona, Migron and Givat Asaf, outposts that were built years later," said Dror Etkes, who has been researching construction in the settlements for several years and detected the annexed land in aerial photographs.
If the appropriation of the Palestinian farmers' lands in the Jordan Valley had happened now, rather than in the 1970s, Israeli civil rights groups would have prevented it, Etkes said.
"This is an example of why it so important for MK Ofir Akunis and his wacky right-wing colleagues to conceal and silence leftist organizations and turn the High Court of Justice and the media into the government's puppets," Etkes said.
Ashraf Madrasa, from the nearby village of Bardallah, showed Haaretz an ownership deed from 1961 for a 36-dunam tract of the land. He said the Israel Defense Forces seized the land, declared it a "military area," drove out the owners and ordered never to return.
A number of landowners were given alternative plots belonging to "absentee" Palestinians who fled during the 1967 Six-Day War. Sami Rajab, whose family farms in the area, said that in exchange for several plots in the area he was evicted from, his father received a tract that belonged to his uncle, who emigrated to Canada.
Recently his cousin came to visit and demanded his lands back, Rajab related. "We told him he had to ask the Israeli government to give it back to him," Rajab said.
According to international law Israel is the custodian of absentee property in the West Bank and is prohibited from giving it to settlers, not to mention to communities within Israel.
In an opinion issued in 1997, the Civil Administration's legal adviser said: "The Custodian of Absentee Property in the West Bank is nothing but a trustee looking after the property so it is not harmed while the owners are absent from the area ... the custodian may not make any transaction regarding the asset that conflicts with the obligation to safeguard the asset as stated, especially his obligation to return the asset to the owner upon his return to the region."
The state comptroller wrote in a 2004 report that thousands of dunams of privately-owned Palestinian lands were given to Israeli communities in the Jordan Valley in the 1960s and 1970s, according to ILA and Custodian of Absentee Property documents.
The ILA continued "these allocations, defined in the above documents as apparently illegal, after that as well," he wrote.
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