This is how settlers take over Palestinian land

From audacious fraud and forgery to military seizures
for ‘security needs’ and the ‘public good’ to dusting off antiquated
Ottoman laws, the Israeli settlement enterprise has no shortage of tools
for taking over Palestinian land in the West Bank.

By Dror Etkes

Mobile
homes and fruit trees represent the expanding edges of the Israeli
settlement of Ma’on, which is taking land from the South Hebron Hills
village of Al Tuwani, West Bank, April 2, 2014. (photo: Ryan Rodrick
Beiler/Activestills.org)