The occupations are not just efforts to create homes and survive through farming, but are also acts of resistance to the widespread handover of land to the private sector.
But rather than desert and thinly populated areas, as Israel had proposed in the last round of talks, Mr. Arafat has demanded that the next handover include land close to the disputed city of Jerusalem, including the small Arab suburb of Abu Dis on a hillside overlooking the Old City.
In recent weeks, Jewish settlers and their supporters on the political right, alarmed by the prospect of a handover of land they live on to the Palestinians, have dominated, holding protests and posting signs that proclaim: "Uprooting settlements tears apart the nation," and "You don't abandon your brothers".
The handover of land and its cleanup, how will it be done?" In April, as part of the Clinton accord, the Navy handed over more than 8,000 acres on the western end of Vieques, which it had used as a munitions storage depot.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors pushed closer to converting a former Marine air base into one of the biggest urban parks in the country instead of an airport by voting on Tuesday to let the City of Irvine negotiate the final handover of the land.
On the diplomatic agenda between the two countries, according to Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and now a critic of British policy in the region, is the handover of used Land Rovers or other military vehicles as partial payment for shipping out other items.
In Alelecho, Bantola, and Golota micro-watersheds and Soresha kebele, there is a plan to handover the rehabilitated common land to a jobless youth association who will sustainably manage the land.
Australian Green Party Senator Nick McKim told VICE News that PNG officials denied him entry to the center after the handover, telling him the land was now on an active military base.
The two sides agreed to restrict the supply of new land for development until the territory's handover in 1997 after all, rising prices, even if artificially induced, were good for confidence.
The landing strip is a more clear-cut handover.
