Israel's High Court Rejected Anin Villagers’ Petition to Work Their Land Beyond the Separation Barrier Every Day, Ruling That Twice a Week Was Sufficient. Now Israel's Army Says the Farmers Should Access Their Land Just Twice a Year
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Jan. 18, 2021
The cluster bomb dropped by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, which delivered a brutal blow to the agricultural rights of Palestinians, is in the process of being neutralized. I would say that this is dramatic news, were it not for the other cluster bombs that Israel has dropped and is dropping that block Palestinian farmers’ access to their own land and are multiplying despite the egregious injustice involved.
And yet, let’s look at the bright side this time, when suddenly common sense and basic justice seem to be prevailing in the form of a conditional injunction issued by the High Court of Justice, in response to a petition by attorney Tehila Meir of HaMoked – Center for the Defense of the Individual. In the injunction, the justices are asking the government to explain why it should not revoke a particularly draconian and devious regulation that forces Palestinian farmers to split their family’s collective plot into sma