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International Hamas denounces Moscow terror attack

https://english.palinfo.com/news/2024/03/23/316342/
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '24

I didn't buy shit and they did purchase the land from the Egyptian and British owners, the Palestinians could only rent the lands they lived on due to ottoman oppression.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '24 edited Mar 24 '24

"in Palestine had two main features: first, there were no laws or regulations on the management and cultivation of land in Palestine that were not completely out of date and, secondly, the big landowners owned nearly all the land. Most of the big landowners belonged to the privileged upper class (the “nobles”) who generally lived away from their land; that is to say, they were absentee landlords whose agricultural land was cultivated by the fellahin for a pittance. This system of tenant farming, known as fief under the Turkish occupation, became less frequent towards 1858, when the authorities of the Ottoman Empire decided to establish a land registry, the Defterkhané, 1/ the main effect of which was to improve the management of land in Palestine so as to make it more profitable"

Ottoman oppression-

A study of Palestine under Turkish rule reveals that already at the beginning of the 18th century, long before Jewish land purchases and large-scale Jewish immigration started, the position of the Palestinian fellah (peasant) had begun to deteriorate. The heavy burden of taxation, coming on top of chronic indebtedness to money-lenders, drove a growing number of farmers to place themselves under the protection of men of wealth or of the Moslem religious endowment fund (Waqf), with the result that they were eventually compelled to give up their title to the land, if not their actual residence upon and cultivation of it.

More evidence of the previous oppression-

Until the passage of the Turkish Land Registry Law in 1858, there were no official deeds to attest to a man’s legal title to a parcel of land; tradition alone had to suffice to establish such title—and usually it did. And yet, the position of Palestine’s farmers was a precarious one, for there were constant blood-feuds between families - whilst land owners were frequently residing in such distant Arab capitals as Beirut and Damascus, Cairo and Kuwait. Here, in other words, was a social and economic order that had all the earmarks of a medieval feudal society.

Yes technically there were no Egyptian official government agencies that they purchased land from, Instead it was individual people who never stepped foot in Gaza or west bank for generations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_territories

https://lessons.myjli.com/survival/index.php/2017/03/26/land-ownership-in-palestine-1880-1948/

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208638/