A/HRC/22/63 settlement activities in the OPT. It also indicates the new basis (declarations of ―State Land‖) to continue with this endeavour after the ruling in the Elon Moreh case: ―Settlement activities were carried out in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza region (…) the allotment of land for existing settlements or those settlements whose establishment was previously decided upon in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] (…) Givon will be established partly on land belonging to state and partly on land owned by Jews, which will be purchased from its owners for this purpose (…) Beit Horon will be established on state lands (…) Efrat will be established on state lands (…) Elkana and Kedumim will be expanded by additional of state land (…) An inter-ministerial committee will be established which will examine the situation in the settlements of Ophra and Kedumim, and which will recommend solutions for their problems in the framework of government policy.‖37 (14 October) 1980 • Military Order 892 Concerning the Administration of Local Councils is issued. The order regulates the issue of larger settlements which have been awarded the status of ―local councils‖, and defines the manner in which the area of the council is defined at the discretion of the Israeli Army Regional Commander: (1 March) • The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 465 which follows Resolutions 446 and 452, determining ―that all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, or any part thereof, have no legal validity and that Israel's policy and practices of settling parts of its population and new immigrants in those territories constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (…) and a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East.‖ 38 (1 March) • Between 1980 and 1984 over 800,000 dunums of land is confiscated through the selective use of the Ottoman Land Law of 1858. The method is largely devised by the director of the Civil Department at the State Prosecutors Office, Plia Albek, with the backing of her superiors: Attorneys General Aharon Barak and Yitzhak Zamir (both later Supreme Court Justices) 39. The West Bank was surveyed by air and on the ground to identify uncultivated land. This would then be cross checked with land records and any lands not under private ownership would be declared as State Land. The onus is placed on those liable to be injured by the declaration to appeal to a military committee within 45 days.40 1981 • The Defence Minister (1981-1983) Ariel Sharon prepares a plan (the Sharon Plan) covering areas he believes are vital for Israel's security and which should be annexed. Only a small number of enclaves densely populated by Palestinians are not 37 38 39 40 30 Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs ―50 Cabinet communiqué on settlements- 14 October 1979 VOLUME 6: 1979-1980‖ www.mfa.gov.il S/RES/465 Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar, ―Lords of the Land‖, 2005 B’Tselem‘s report, Land Grab, May 2002