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High Court: Controversial settlement neighborhood to remain in place

By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent

The High Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that dozens of existing buildings built in a controversial neighborhood of the West Bank settlement of Modi'in Ilit will not be demolished, despite the fact that they were built illegally and partially on private Palestinian land.

The High Court thus rejected a petition filed against the Matityahu-East neighborhood a year and a half ago by Peace Now and Bili'in Council. Residents of the West Bank village of Bili'in own some of the property on which the neighborhood was built.

In part, the court based its decision on the fact that the petitions should have been filed several years earlier.

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Nonetheless, the High Court ordered settlers, the state, and construction companies to pay the petitioners' court fees, totaling NIS 160,000.

As a result of the ruling, the state will not remove the hundreds of settlers who stormed apartments they had purchased, after it became clear that construction company Heftsiba had collapsed.

Wednesday's ruling effectively seals the fate of the controversial settlement neighborhood, after on Tuesday the court ordered the state to alter the route of a 1.7-kilometer section of the West Bank fence, which had been designed to encircle the area on which additional parts of the neighborhood were to be constructed.

As a result, the court apparently has given approval to the existing status quo in the area - the existing part of the neighborhood will remain in place, but plans to expand the neighborhood will not be carried out.

For nearly three years, the fence has been the focus of weekly demonstrations at Bil'in, punctuated at times by violent confrontations between protesters, soldiers and police deployed at the site.

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1.	Why demolish it - give it to the Pal`s	17:52	\|	B`galil	05/09/07

2.	give it to them	18:02	\|	Barry	05/09/07

3.	IHCJ and hypocracy.	18:23	\|	Labhras	05/09/07

4.	the court and law and expediency	18:30	\|	victor hardman	05/09/07

5.	Is this Jewish Justice	18:49	\|	El-Birawi	05/09/07

6.	Finally after causing them to go broke	19:02	\|	Jewboy	05/09/07

7.	Typical	19:19	\|	I understand	05/09/07

8.	We knew this yesterday. Perfidious Israel	19:56	\|	JW	05/09/07

9.	#1 - to save the effort of the Palestinians	20:01	\|	Jon	05/09/07

10.	Controversial settlement neighborhood ... !	21:19	\|	Henk	05/09/07

11.	who pays the owners?	21:31	\|	Shelley	05/09/07

12.	Arabian Bilin Settlers still there?	22:42	\|	Mike	05/09/07

13.	#3labarse and hypocrisy and ignorance of law	22:52	\|	victor hardman	05/09/07

14.	#11 why do people like shelley write in at all	22:55	\|	victor hardman	05/09/07

15.	the only liberal democracy in the Middle East	23:17	\|	Don Camillo	05/09/07

16.	2nd Story, but Still Incomplete	00:21	\|	Mark of Lewiston	06/09/07

17.	that is very terrible	00:24	\|	Anat	06/09/07

18.	Peace Now Loses	01:04	\|	mark	06/09/07

19.	Emminent Domain & Pollard`s jail term &arab compensatio, to it`	01:07	\|	ryan	06/09/07

20.	Time Limits	01:12	\|	Mark	06/09/07

21.	Let Me Get This Straight	01:13	\|	Mark	06/09/07

22.	#1 B`galil. You do make good sence.	01:18	\|	Harrisson	06/09/07

23.	#5 El Birawi, better still	01:43	\|	A.Kader	06/09/07

24.	I agree with Jon#9.Why give them to Palis.?	01:49	\|	Benji	06/09/07

25.	Misunderstanding	01:53	\|	D	06/09/07

26.	#Henk 10,Thanks GOD we do have HONEST people like YOU.	01:57	\|	Jew Abroad	06/09/07

27.	Of course, Jews live there. If they had been Arabs...	02:26	\|	peacelover	06/09/07

28.	More one-sided justice from High Court	04:45	\|	Dutch	06/09/07

29.	Reply to Mark (Post No. 20)	05:48	\|	Johnny Weintraub	06/09/07

30.	#20 All you need are two words, Mark	05:51	\|	Johnboy	06/09/07

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