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Israel approves seizure of huge swathes of land in West Bank

Israel has approved a huge 12.7 square kilometre land seizure in the occupied West Bank, called the largest land grab in three decades by monitoring group Peace Now.

The Israeli agency handling land affairs for the occupied territories declared the land in the Jordan Valley "state property" in June, according to a declaration obtained by AFP on Wednesday.