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Detailed report by Adalah, a leading Palestinian legal center and human rights organization, examining the evolution of Israel’s dual legal system in the occupied West Bank, a parallel structure where Israeli settlers are governed under civilian law and Palestinians in the same area are governed by harsh military law. The report addresses ‘civilianization’ of land governance for Area C illegal settlers, dual legal frameworks governing local authorities, declaration and allocation of “state land,” and the discriminatory nature of permitting and enforcement policies. The legal report analyzes systematic Israeli land theft, apartheid and de facto annexation in the West Bank as violations of international law, and the rapid acceleration of annexation policies under Netanyahu’s far-right government. This source is valuable for research on West Bank settlement expansion and Israeli planning law in Area C.
