According to a report issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, 3.000 dunams of land in the Wadi Hawareth which was leased to the Palestine government two years ago, for the temporary accommodation of a group of landless Bedouins, was returned yesterday to the Keren Kavemeth the Jewish National Fund.
The land was immediately occupied by Jewish colonists. The political department of the executive of the Jewish Agency negotiated the lease to the government and the return to the Keren Kayemeth.
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