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A recent ruling by Israel’s supreme court ended the legal battle of one local family against eviction and in hearings this week judges dismissed two other attempts to block moves to force 66 people out of their homes Batn al-Hawa too.

The sudden flurry of activity in Batn al-Hawa comes amid a concerted effort by Israeli settler organisations to expand existing projects and start new ones.

Israel late last month approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in more than three decades, according to a report released by an Israeli anti-settlement watchdog, which said the move would exacerbate the escalating tensions surrounding the conflict in Gaza.

The group argues that much of Batn al-Hawa lies on the site of a village constructed by a philanthropic trust under Ottoman rule in the late 19th century to house poor Yemeni Jews.

Lawyers acting for the trust, which was reactivated almost 20 years ago, have successfully argued that its prior ownership of the properties in Batn al-Hawa should take precedence over any later purchases made by current inhabitants or their parents or grandparents, many of whom lost their homes during the conflict in 1967 or the wars surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948.

A recent United Nations report noted that the policies of Israel’s government, which is the most right wing in the country’s history, appeared aligned with the goals of the Israeli settler movement to an “unprecedented extent”.

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