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JERUSALEM, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Israel's Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday to demolish 17 illegal structures built on private Palestinian land in the West Bank.
Under the ruling, Israel will have to carry out the order by June 22, 2018.
The decision came in a petition filed by Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organization, on behalf of Palestinians from the nearby village of Yasuf.
The Palestinian residents charged that 18 settler homes were placed on privately-owned Palestinian plots.
The judge found that 17 of them were built on private land and the other one on a plot that Israel has confiscated.
The Israeli parliament approved on Monday night a law allowing Israel to confiscate privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank, despite international criticism.
According to Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper, the new law is not expected to affect the demolitions because it covers only lands already confiscated before the hearing.
Both outposts and settlements are illegal under international law as they were built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast War, where the Palestinians wish to build their future state.
