Settlement Regularization Law

On 9 June 2020, the Israeli Supreme Court decided to cancel the "Settlements Regularization Law for Judea and Samaria [the West Bank]", finding that the law disproportionately violates the rights...

Adalah, JLAC, and Al Mezan petitioned against 2017 law; Adalah: This is significant achievement against Israel's threatened impending annexation of parts of West Bank; nothing justifies war crimes.

In statement to Supreme Court, gov't maintains Knesset is allowed to ignore international law anywhere it desires; Adalah: This signals Israel's intention to proceed with annexation of West Bank.

Attorney general opposes Settlements Regularization Law, says Israel's West Bank army commander must protect Palestinian property rights but nevertheless proposes other ways to seize land.

Israeli government “regularizes” illegal Gilad settlement outpost for “security and humanitarian reasons”; debates additional land-grab move in occupied West Bank that violates...

In 2017, the Israeli parliament enacted a law allowing the expropriation of private West Bank Palestinian land in order to retroactively “legalize” Israeli settlements.

Settlement Regularization Law allows Israel to 'legalize' settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land via de facto expropriation.

Report: Attorney General approved legalization of houses built on private Palestinian land in apparent effort to avoid enactment of Settlement Regularization Law.

Supreme Court granted the state 30 days to respond to Adalah's petition against law that retroactively “legalizes”, under Israeli law, settlements built on private Palestinian land.

State given 30 days to respond; new law is unconstitutional, violates int'l humanitarian law; aerial images detail Israeli settlement construction on Palestinian municipalities’ lands.

Adalah to file Supreme Court petition against 'sweeping and dangerous' Validation Law that violates international law and Palestinian property rights in West Bank.