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Related: About this forumState Seeks Last Minute Postponement of Tomorrow’s Khirbat Zanuta Hearing
The State Attorney filed a motion for a continuance with the High Court of Justice today (October 13), seeking to postpone the tomorrows scheduled hearing on the petition against the demolition of the village of Khirbat Zanuta in the southern Hebron hills. The motion states that due to a mistake, the respondents failed to answer the Courts question about the fate of the 27 families living in structures with demolition orders pending.
According to the motion, when the error became clear, representatives of the Civil Authority requested an urgent meeting on the issue. For this purpose representatives of all the relevant offices in the Civil Authority, including infrastructure, planning, oversight and legal, are assembling today.
Attorney Maskit Bendel of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), who is representing the village residents, agreed to the states request.
Attorney Bendel: We hope that the result of the meeting being conducted in the Civil Authority is a change in the states position, and that the residents will be given the possibility of continuing to live their lives in their historic village. It is disappointing that a substantive meeting like this is occurring at such a late juncture in the proceedings rather than before the taking of a decision to obliterate an entire village.
A new date for the hearing has not been set.
http://www.acri.org.il/en/2013/10/13/zanuta-postponed/
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)that Israel is being treated unfairly in all of this when it is pointed out how cruel Israel policy is towards anybody that is not part of the tribe.
Shame.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)the Israeli government has this thing in the bag.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)as it has not always in the recent past or IOW if the court rules in favor of the villagers will the army simply declare a closed military zone?