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Palestinian town sues Canadian builders over Israeli settlement
July 10, 2008
[CBC News] Lawsuit is unique in Canadian legal system
A West Bank village is suing two Quebec-based companies for $2 million, alleging they violated international law by building Israeli settlements on occupied territory.
The claim, filed Wednesday against sister companies Green Park International and Green Mount International, also asks the Quebec Superior Court for an injunction to stop further construction, and demolish apartment buildings already erected in Moddin Illit, a Jewish settlement northwest of Ramallah.
Palestinian village sues Canadian contractors
July 10, 2008
[National Post] The Palestinian village of Bil’in in Israel’s Occupied West Bank has launched a lawsuit against two Canadian construction companies accusing them of committing war crimes by building houses in the area.
In a lawsuit filed in Quebec Superior Court Monday, the village claims that the companies are acting as an agent of the state of Israel. It wants $2-million in punitive damages, as well as an immediate order from the Canadian court that would stop construction. If the order is successful, Bil’in will petition the Israeli Court to enforce it in the West Bank.
Bil'in residents slam proposed route for West Bank fence
July 10, 2008
[Ha’aretz] The head of the Bili’n local council has slammed Israel’s proposals for alternate routes for the West Bank security fence, saying that the government is treating recent Supreme Court rulings as though they were "weightless particles of dust."
This week, after a 10-month delay, prosecutors presented the Supreme Court with a draw up of the alternate fence routes, which Bili’n local council head Ahmed Issa Abdallah Yassin said will return only 200 of the reported 2000 dunams of land belonging to the local council that he says were expropriated under the original fence route.
Bil’in Village Council Submits Case before Canadian Court Against Canadian Corporations for Involvement in Illegal Israeli Settlement Construction
July 10, 2008
[AIC] In a continuation of their struggle for justice in the face of unlawful appropriation of their land, the people of Bil’in village yesterday commenced legal proceedings before the Superior Court of Quebec against Green Park International Inc. and Green Mount International Inc. The defendants are Canadian corporations registered in the Province of Quebec who have been involved in constructing, marketing and selling residential units in the illegal Jewish-Israeli settlement of Modi’in Illit in the occupied West Bank, on the land of the village of Bil’in.
Bil'in sues Canadian building companies
July 10, 2008
[Jerusalem Post] A West Bank village has sued two Canadian companies for building in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, the village’s lawyer said Thursday.
Attorney Michael Sfard said this was the first time a private company has been sued for investing in settlements. The claim was filed Wednesday in Superior Court in Montreal, Canada, against Green Park International and Green Mount International, sister companies registered in Quebec.
