Israel rejects Palestinian claims, registers Dead Sea land as state land - National Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
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Some 35,000 acres of land previously under water are now exposed due to the shrinking sea line of the Dead Sea. Palestinians, who had hoped to claim it as their own for a tourism project, have lost out to the State of Israel.