Watchdog raps land grabs near West Bank ancient site

JERUSALEM: Israeli cultural watchdog Emek Shaveh denounced on Monday a decision to expropriate nearly 500 acres of private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank near the ancient archaeological site of Sebastia. “Residents reported that the expropriation will severely restrict access to agricultural lands and could lead to the loss of roughly 3,000 olive trees, some of them centuries old,” the watchdog specializing in cultural heritage rights said in a statement. On Nov.

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