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Beginning in 1948 and in subsequent decades, Israeli authorities seized hundreds of thousands of dunams of land from Palestinians (10 dunams equals 1 hectare). Much of the confiscation took place between 1949, when Israel placed most Palestinians in Israel under military rule, and 1966, when military rule ended. During this period, Israeli authorities confined Palestinians in Israel to dozens of enclaves and severely restricted their movement. They also used various military regulations and new laws to seize land belonging to Palestinians who had become refugees or Palestinian citizens who were internally displaced, including by declaring land to be ?absentee property,? taking it over, and later converting it to state land. One historian estimates that of the 370 Jewish towns and villages established by the Israeli government between 1948 and 1953, 350 were built on land confiscated from Palestinians.

Land policies in more recent years have not only failed to reverse the earlier land seizures, but in many cases further restricted the land available for residential growth. Since 1948, the government has authorized the creation of more than 900 ?Jewish localities? in Israel, but none for Palestinians except for a handful of government-planned townships and villages in the Negev and Galilee, created largely to concentrate previously dispersed Bedouin communities.

Bara sedan den 7 oktober 2023, när Israel inledde sin militära offensiv mot Gaza, har de olagligt konfiskerat enorma ytor av mark på den ockuperade Västbanken.

Tex  mars 2024 förklarade Israels högerextrema finansminister Bezalel Smotrich förvärvet av cirka 8 miljoner kvadratmeter av palestinskt territorium på Västbanken, vilket markerar det enskilt största stölden eller landbeslaget av den israeliska regeringen sedan Oslo-avtalet 1993.

Israel said on Friday it had seized 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of land in the occupied West Bank.

Israel's extreme-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared "state lands" in the northern Jordan Valley, near the Israeli settlement of Yafit. Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal under international law.

"While there are those in Israel and the world who seek to undermine our right over the Judea and Samaria area and the country in general, we are promoting settlement through hard work and in a strategic manner all over the country," Smotrich said on Friday, using a contentious name for the occupied West Bank.

Smotrich heads the extreme-right Religious Zionism party and lives in a settlement himself.

The announcement comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss Israel's ground offensive in Gaza.

"While there are those in Israel and the world who seek to undermine our right over the Judea and Samaria area and the country in general, we are promoting settlement through hard work and in a strategic manner all over the country," Smotrich said on Friday, using a contentious name for the occupied West Bank.