Nir Shalev, Under the Guise of Legality – Israel's Declarations of State Land in the West Bank (4,6 MB), pp. 12-15, 56-60. B'Tselem, February 2012.
(p.13) Government Decision No. 145 of 1 November 1979: "On 11 November 1979, about one month after the ruling in the Elon Moreh case, the government decided "to expand the settlement in Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights by increasing the population of the existing communities and by establishing new communities on state-owned land."
(p.59): "International law, [which] forbids the occupying power to change the local law in force in the occupied area on the eve of its occupation, unless such a change is necessary for security needs or for the benefit of the local population."
