NAZARETH (PIC)– The occupation authorities have backtracked on its decision to confiscate the Palestinian Cliff Hotel east of Jerusalem from its Palestinian owners under the Absentee Property Law Hebrew media sources said.
The State Prosecutor’s Office informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it has reversed its previous decision to seize the Cliff Hotel from its owners Haaretz newspaper said Thursday.
The Israeli Supreme Court has discussed recently to stop using a 1950 law to confiscate east Jerusalem properties from Arabs who were forced to live out of Palestine for the benefit of the Jewish state.
Cliff Hotel owned by Ayad family was expropriated under Absentee Property Law since 2003 under the pretext that its owners live outside city limits only 200 meters away from the hotel.
Ayad family and many other Palestinian families have complained against the application of the Absentee Property Law.
Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein announced his decision as a response to the High Court of Justice decision demanding it to explain its position on using the 1950 Absentee Property Law to confiscate land in east Jerusalem the newspaper said.
The Attorney-General did only stop using the 1950 law but declared that it could never apply in east Jerusalem Haaretz pointed out.
