Word: jawad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...headquarters. As one official explained, "We do not want to be confronted one morning by houses on the borders of our military camps." That may be a valid point, except that Beth-El, meanwhile, is being built on land originally expropriated by Israel solely for military purposes. Abdul Jawad Hussein, a retired businessman who owns part of the land where Beth-El is being built, says that since 1969 the Israelis have fenced off the land and prevented his family from using it. In return, he has been paid one Jordanian dinar ($3) per dunam, or $141 in annual rent...