Recommendation to the political echelon: to replace the cumbersome land survey in the West Bank • Meaning: regulating the status of land within 10 years and ending the High Courts • MK Dayan: "Contribution to generations"
Demolition of a house in Netiv HaAvot (Archive)
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Tzachi Miriam
One of the most important moves to regulate the status of land in Judea and Samaria awaits the decision of the political echelon, after being approved by the ombudsman.
If the government promotes it, it will have a dramatic impact on real estate disputes and greatly reduce the possibility of invasion and takeover of Palestinian land. two. Israel Hayom "has learned that the Civil Administration Ministry Coordinator for the territories recommended that apply in the West Bank land settlement that will replace the cumbersome process and long years held today, the declaration of state land after the land survey.
This was the reply to a query by MK And Maj. Gen. (Res.) Uzi Dayan (Likud) to the Defense Minister, in which he asked why the declaration on state lands that have already been surveyed is delayed, while the Palestinian Authority takes over land in Area C without interruption.
A real estate settlement is a process in which a mapping of the area is carried out and everyone who claims to own it is invited to come and submit documents proving his claim.
They then build a table of claims of everyone who claims ownership of the land, make an inquiry and build a table of rights which regulates the status of the land and its owners.
The bill of rights can be appealed to a settlement judge, and then the final bill is published and the land is registered in the register in the name of its owner.
This is a final and absolute procedure, which cannot be appealed after its completion.
After World War II, the British began a process of settling real estate in all the territories they occupied.
In 1948, the Jordanians continued the move in the territories of Judea and Samaria, and until 1967 about a third of the area was settled. The lands that were settled are mainly in the Jordan Valley, northern Samaria, Ma'ale Mikhmas in Benjamin and Mount Hebron. All lands were also tabooed in Israel. With the conquest of Judea and Samaria, the Commander-in-Chief issued a decree that froze the entire process of land regulation. Over the years, the method of land surveying was formulated, formulated by the late Pleia Albeck, the former director of the Civil Department of the State Attorney's Office. The legal establishment of the settlements.
In this method the lands are surveyed, and those that have not been cultivated for a long time are declared state lands.
In this way, the state declared about 780,000 dunams of land in Area C as state land.
Over the years, however, this method has become cumbersome, long and expensive, and has led to a wave of objections, appeals, lawsuits and High Court decisions by private Palestinians and left-wing organizations against declaring land as state land. Today there are 106,000 dunams of land already surveyed but not yet Declared as state lands, and hundreds of thousands of uncultivated dunams, which have not yet been surveyed and their status has not been settled as state lands, and as a result dozens of localities throughout Judea and Samaria are awaiting settlement. The Civil Administration has a staff to check the status of land. This is a process that will take many years and is not final.
In response to a question from MK Uzi Dayan, the Office of the Coordinator of Government Operations in the Occupied Territories wrote last week: "Our main recommendation is to apply a real estate settlement in Judea and Samaria gradually, with final and final results." On the resources invested in state land declarations, which are attacked in appeals and courts, a procedure that often takes many years, even after the declaration, and its validity is not absolute, in contrast to a real estate settlement. "
This recommendation received the support of former Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked. By the Speaker, it was approved by Y.
Ink and transferred to the Prime Minister's Office and the Defense Ministers who have served in the office for the past two years.
The recommendation is now awaiting a decision by the political echelon.
Against the background of the repeal of the Settlement Law, and the delay in advancing the plan of the century and applying sovereignty, it seems that only a process of land settlement will lead after more than 50 years to real settlement of land status in Judea and Samaria and registration in the settlements of all houses in the settlements. In recent years, which themselves have begun the process of land settlement, about 600 people work on behalf of the authority on land settlement, and with this method began to claim ownership of land including in Area C, even land that according to surveys conducted by the Civil Administration should be declared state land.
The Civil Administration does not recognize the registration of the lands by the authority, but it should be noted that as time goes on, the chances increase that the takeover, which involves cultivation of the land by them, will take effect, and the state will have nothing to do against it.
A senior settlement official said yesterday: "The IDF's recommendation is a very important line, a requested step that will finally provide a real solution to the PA's continued erosion of state lands and a variety of problems in regulating both young and old settlements.
This is without prejudice to the property rights of any part of the population.
It is hoped that the recommendation will be adopted by the political echelon. "
MK Uzi Dayan said in response:" I am a great supporter of the application of sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and Judea and Samaria.
We must have our eastern border be the Jordan.
Until that happens, we must not abandon the territory.
Care must be taken to ensure that the vast majority of localities are regulated.
"Following the response of the IDF, I intend to press and ensure that this answer is adopted and becomes a work plan, so that when we reach a further discussion on sovereignty, a situation will be created where all localities, outposts and neighborhoods are regulated. This will be a contribution to generations and change reality in the Middle East."