An Israeli company has been stopped from appropriating 0.4 square kilometres of Palestinian land near Nablus by the Stop the Wall campaign.
In a press release issued yesterday, lawyers for the campaign said this success comes eight years after the legal process began and 30 years after the company first claimed the land based of forged documents.
Committe Deputy Chairman Mohammed Ilyas said that the Israeli company has made several attempts since 1983 to sieze several pieces of land but legal action taken by the landowners and activists prevented this.
He added that Israel has set up a scheme for the establishment of a settlement and had already seized land in order to open a street leading to it.
This is not the first time that the committee had revealed similar attempts to seizure Palestinian land. So far this year the uncovered fraud operations in the governorates of Qalqiliya and Ramallah have uncovered 46 rigging attempts.