A/HRC/22/63 • Article 11 of the Law and Administration Ordinance is amended to indicate that: ―The law, jurisdiction and administration of the State shall extend to any area of Eretz Israel designated by the Government by order.‖ 12 (27 June) • Israel illegally annexes 70 km2 of land, incorporating Palestinians living in East Jerusalem and a number of villages in the West Bank. 13 (27 June) • Yigal Allon, Israeli Defence Minister and chair of the Ministerial Committee on Settlements, presents a plan to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol for the creation of ―security‖ borders by establishing Israeli settlements on unpopulated Arab areas of the West Bank (along the Jordan Rift Valley, the expanded Jerusalem and parts of the Judean Desert). The plan is not officially approved but is subsequently implemented.14 (26 July) • Theodor Meron, legal counsel of the Foreign Ministry, provides a legal opinion on the legality of civilian settlement in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip at the request of the PM‘s Office: ―civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes the explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention.‖ 15 (18 September) • The first Israeli settlement in the OPT is established, Kefar Ezyon.16 (September) • The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 242 and calls for Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The Resolution emphasises the ―inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war.‖ 17 (22 November) 1968 • The Jerusalem 1968 Master Plan, and subsequent plans provides for the building of a belt of 12 Israeli ‗neighbourhoods‘ enveloping and bisecting the Palestinian neighbourhoods in the city.18 • The first of a series of expropriations of private land in Jerusalem takes place. The land is used to build the settlements such as French Hill, Gilo, Pisgat Ze’ev and Ramot Allon. In the great majority of known cases the owners of the expropriated land are Palestinians.19 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 26 Amendment of 1967 to article 11 of the Law and Administration Ordinance No. 1 of 5708-1948 also available at: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Foreign+Relations/Israels+Foreign+Relations+since+1947/19471974/13+Law+and+Administration+Ordinance+Amendment+No.htm?WBCMODE=PresentationUnp?DisplayMode=print B’Tselem, A Policy of Discrimination: Land Expropriation, Planning and Building in East Jerusalem, May 1995. Senior Foreign Policy Analyst, Dan Diker ―Israel’s return to Security-Based Diplomacy‖, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, http://www.jcpa.org/text/security/diker.pdf Israel State Archives, 153.8/7921/3A. Legal opinion numbered as document 289-291, with unnumbered cover notes http://southjerusalem.com/settlement-and-occupation-historical-documents/ Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar, ―Lords of the Land‖, 2005. S/RES/242 Eyal Weizman, Hollow Land. 2007 B’Tselem, A Policy of Discrimination: Land Expropriation, Planning and Building in East Jerusalem, May 1995.