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- safeguarding state lands.
Haaretz said Civil Administration officials "allocated less that one percent of state land in the West Bank to Palestinians."
Their land was stolen. They were disproportionately cheated. Until 1967, a small amount of "state land" was registered with Jordanian authorities. After 1979, most "state land" was declared that way.
It followed a High Court ruling. It called seizing Palestinian land unconstitutional. Ostensibly it was done for "military needs." In practice, it was for settlement construction.
After 1979, wholesale theft began. Laws enacted said any land with continuous cultivation for at least 10 years belongs to farmers doing so.
Civil Administration officials were supposed to determine cultivated lands through testimonies, aerial photos, and legitimate documents. In practice, decisions are political.
Ways were found to declare areas between cultivated and uncultivated portions state land.
CA officials claim 1.3 million dunams of West Bank land. It breaks down as follows:
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