[Excerpt: The report includes the following findings:
* The housing ministry supplied 400 mobile homes for outposts on
private Palestinian land.
* The defence ministry approved the positioning of trailers to
begin new outposts.
* The education ministry paid for nurseries and their teachers.
* The energy ministry connected outposts to the electricity grid.
* Roads to outposts were paid for with taxpayers money.]
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 9 March, 2005, 12:09 GMT
Israel 'funded illegal outposts'
Israeli state bodies have been secretly diverting millions of dollars to
build illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, an official report
has revealed.
Former state prosecutor Talia Sasson has recommended criminal
investigations against those alleged to be involved.
Israel is meant to remove unauthorised outposts on Palestinian land
under the US-backed roadmap peace plan.
Anti-settlement groups say more than 100 such outposts have sprung up,
outside existing settlements.
The report details how officials in the Ministries of Defence and
Housing and the Settlement Division of the World Zionist Organisation
spent millions of dollars from state budgets to support the illegal
outposts.
Ms Sasson called it a "blatant violation of the law" and said "drastic
steps" were needed to remedy the situation.
It describes secret co-operation between various ministries and official
institutions to consolidate wildcat outposts, which settlers began
setting up more than a decade ago.
It was an initiative backed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, then Foreign
Minister, who urged settlers to seize hilltops in order to break up the
contiguity of Palestinian areas and prevent the establishment of a
Palestinian state.
The report includes the following findings:
* The housing ministry supplied 400 mobile homes for outposts on
private Palestinian land.
* The defence ministry approved the positioning of trailers to
begin new outposts.
* The education ministry paid for nurseries and their teachers.
* The energy ministry connected outposts to the electricity grid.
* Roads to outposts were paid for with taxpayers money.
A statement from Sharon's office - which commissioned the report - said
the matter would be discussed in the cabinet on Sunday.
About 400,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank, Gaza and East
Jerusalem - alongside among than 4 million Palestinians. About 8,000
settlers and the soldiers that protect them are due to be withdrawn from
Gaza in July this year.
Under international law, all settlement building in Gaza and the West
Bank, including East Jerusalem is considered illegal, though Israel
disputes this.
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