The High Court today recognized as legal the Jewish National Fund’s claim to the six thousand dunams of Wadi Hawareth land, which had been claimed by Arabs.
The court rejected as baseless the Arab claims to the land and annulled a previous decision by the land court in favor of the Arabs.
Arab squatters are still living on the land in question, but they are now to be settled by the government on new land together with those Arabs for whom the Palestine government leased the 4,500 dunams of Jewish National Fund land at Wadi Hawareth.
It is understood that the Arabs now living on the leased area of Jewish National Fund land are to move to government land on the expiring of the lease, which was for a period of twenty-three months.
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