By granting the Arab squatters on the Wadi Hawareth lands 7,000 dunams in the same vicinity to be used by them as tenants, the Jewish National Fund which owns the Wadi Hawareth lands was finally able to begin intensive work on this acreage as the squatters have now vacated. The squatters had persistently refused to leave the land even in the face of court orders, liberal monetary payments and the visit of a squadron of British police.
When the police were sent to remove the squatters a dispute arose as a result of which ten people were injured, four Arab women, two policemen, and four Jewish cultivators. Despite a ruling of the land court at Tulkarem that the government was entitled to sell the 45,000 dunams of land at Wadi Hawareth to the Jewish National Fund, a handful of squatters have persistently declined to move. The granting of the 7,000 dunams to the squatters settles this problem amicably and the Fund is now beginning the work of developing this acreage, which was purchased with a fund of $1,000,000 raised by Canadian Zionists.
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