Jaba Village lands annexed by Geva-Binyamin Settlement

On November 11th, 2009, the Jaba Village Regional Council assisted by the Yesh Din Human Rights Organization, filed a petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice demanding that a fence preventing villagers from working lands they cultivated for years be removed.

The lands of Jaba Village have been adjacent to the settlement of Geva-Binyamin since 2003, when the illegal fence was erected, annexing numerous plots, and denying the village farmers' access to them and the possibility of working them. The total size of lands so trapped is estimated at some 400 dunams.

In addition to the plots that were de facto annexed to the settlement after the fence surrounded them, the settlement of Geva-Binyamin also holds some 145 dunams of Jaba Village residents' privately-owned lands. The landowners cannot access these plots as well, and over the years several public buildings were built there even though these plots are formally outside the settlement's jurisdiction.

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