Much of Amona Outpost Built on Cultivated Palestinian Land, Civil Administration Says

Findings contradict West Bank settlers’ claim site was unused rocky hilltop before they came in 1996.

Chaim Levinson
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Most of the land where the northern West Bank outpost of Amona now stands were worked by Palestinians before the outpost went up in 1996, according to a Civil Administration document. The document contradicts the settlers’ claim that the site was a rocky hilltop before they moved there.

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