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groundloop

(13,677 posts)
Mon Feb 16, 2026, 09:53 PM Monday

Israel advances West Bank land registration for first time since 1967

Source: UPI

The Israeli government is moving forward with a plan to register territory in the West Bank for the first time since it occupied the territory in 1967.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry says advancing the land registration process is an administrative measure but Palestinians call it an effort to annex the West Bank and displace Palestinians.

The Israeli government approved the proposal to reinstate the land registration process on Sunday after it was dormant for nearly six decades. The proposal was made by Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Justice Yariv Levin and Minister of Defense Israel Katz.

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The land registration process puts a burden on Palestinians to prove ownership of their land, something advocates say will be "almost impossible" for most of them to do under Israel's standards.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/02/16/west-bank-land-registration-advances/2611771256675/

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More theft of Palestinian land Bayard Yesterday #1

Bayard

(29,102 posts)
1. More theft of Palestinian land
Tue Feb 17, 2026, 12:34 PM
Yesterday

It will continue until all Palestinians left alive are rounded up, and shoved on to reservations. Reminiscent of the government's treatment of Indigenous people in the U.S., the theft of their lands, and decimation of the nations.

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