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"Family honor and rights, the lives of persons, and private property, as well as religious convictions and practice must be respected. Private property cannot be confiscated."
Ofra construction violates this law, "extending beyond the prohibition on establishment of the settlements." It denies Palestinians:
-- the right to live on their own land, develop it, raise crops on it, and gain other benefits;
-- thousands of additional dunams that Ofra seized for future development;
-- more still for infrastructure, including for-Jews only roads; and it
-- "has ramifications for other Palestinian communities" by preventing free movement between them and letting all settlements expropriate more West Bank and East Jerusalem land.
Conclusions
Under international and local laws, Ofra's settlement is illegal. No jurisdictional area was set for it. It doesn't have a valid outline plan, and at least 58% of its land is lawfully registered under Palestinian names in the Land Registry.
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