Stolen land, stolen parts of the Palestinian culture, stolen human organs, and the list goes on and on and it includes not only Palestine but the world!
Ma'an/Agencies - For the past 15 years, Israel has been channeling hundreds of millions of shekels it had collected in the West Bank into its state coffers, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Wednesday.
According to the newspaper, the move is considered illegal because international law prohibits an occupying power from appropriating the fruit of economic activity in an occupied territory.
Following protests by military lawyers, the deputy attorney general has ruled that the practice should be stopped and ordered an inquiry into whether the Civil Administration in the West Bank should be compensated retroactively, the daily reported.
Haaretz quoted the Israeli Justice Ministry as responding that the income in question "was registered as part of state income, and the Finance Ministry budgeted all the activities of the Civil Administration and the military in the area out of the state budget."
"Recently ... it turned out that the issue should be arranged in a way that would make it obvious that the income should be registered as part of the Civil Administration's budget, as authorized by the Knesset," the ministry said.
According to the Finance Ministry: "It should be noted the question of whether the funds are registered as state income or Civil Administration income is a technical question, because at the end of the day the State of Israel invests in the area amounts considerably larger than the fees it collects.
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