Throughout the 1950s, like all other Bedouin tribes under Israeli jurisdiction, the Al-Azazme were displaced from their land holdings into the Siyag triangle.
Mr. Kuttab lives in Jerusalem, under Israeli jurisdiction, but went anyway.
The Israeli government believes that Modi'in Illit would remain within Israeli jurisdiction in a final-status agreement with the Palestinians.
The village is located in Area C (under the Oslo Accords) and is thus subject to Israeli jurisdiction for all civilian matters.
The Palestinians, for example, wanted to know if Israeli jurisdiction over the Western Wall would cover the 85-yard section where Jews pray or a larger 480-yard section, part of it underground.
Le Droit Humain also has an Israeli jurisdiction founded in 1989.
The much larger land area surrounding them, where there are now at least 140 settlements and 110,000 Israelis, would fall fully under Israeli jurisdiction and law.
They stayed within Israeli jurisdiction, forming part of the hard core of the intifada leadership.
Barghouti's trial, though deemed fair, has sparked an international campaign to free him, as the Palestinian National Authority challenges Israeli jurisdiction over him.
The international community regarded the move as a de facto annexation, and deemed Israeli jurisdiction invalid in a subsequent non-binding United Nations General Assembly resolution.