Jewish Cemetery Plan for West Bank Blocked
A Palestinian and an Israeli peace group have won a legal battle to block plans for a Jewish cemetery on Israeli-occupied land, the group said Monday.
Rhassan Khatib, a resident of the West Bank town of Ramallah, and Peace Now jointly petitioned the High Court of Justice to block the cemetery near Ramallah.
The petition led the Religious Affairs and the Defense ministries to agree that the cemetery should not be built.
Land for burial sites has become another point of controversy between Palestinians and Israel, which captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East War.
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