The Peace Now Organization has released a report entitled “Annex and Dispossess: Use of the Absentees’ Property Law to Dispossess Palestinians of their property in East Jerusalem.” This report reveals how a secret government mechanism established under the Likud government in the 1980s, transferred dozens of Palestinian assets in Silwan and the Muslim quarter to settlers, through use of the Absentees’ Property Law, among other means. Peace Now cites numerous documents that indicate how this law was misused, and that even when governments sought to reduce the use of the law, the following governments always found means of changing the policy and re-expanding takeover of Palestinian assets through the Absentees’ Property Law. To check the news, click here