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Source: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/04/26/3125201/french-court-jerusalem-light-rail-project-legal
French Court: Jerusalem Light Rail Project Legal
(JTA) A French court ruled that Israel did not violate international law by building a light rail line in eastern Jerusalem. The ruling on March 22 by the Versailles Court of Appeals came in response to a lawsuit filed in 2007 by the Palestine Liberation Organization and the France-Palestine Solidarite association against three French firms that participated in the construction of the light rail network. The judges ruled that international treaties applied to lands Israel captured in 1967 and that those conventions - including the Hague Convention of 1907 - state that the ruling power "can and even must establish normal, public activity" in that territory.