Tag: Fragmentation
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Gaza: Apparent War Crimes During May Fighting
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on alleged Israeli war crimes during the recent conflict in Gaza, which occurred between 10 and 21 May, killing 260 and injuring 1,948. Over half the dead (129) were civilians, including 66 children. And children accounted for almost a third (610) of the injured. The report specifically focuses on three Israeli airstrikes that killed 62 Palestinian civilians.
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‘Beita is undefeatable’: Inside the struggle to save this Palestinian village from Israeli settlers – by Yumna Patel, Mondoweiss
In this July 7 article, Yumna Patel reports how residents of the Palestinian village of Beita are resisting occupying Jewish settlers who built an illegal outpost in the outskirts of […]
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Lancaster Council votes to divest £8m from Israeli Companies Who Help to Maintain the Occupation – by Noa Hoffman, The Jewish Chronicle (JC)
On June 23, Lancaster City Council councilors passed a motion that called on the Council’s pension fund to withdraw funding from companies that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign alleges to be […]
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Israeli Settlements and Palestinian Displacements – Middle East Monitor
On June 23, the new Israeli government, which was formed just two weeks before, approved 31 zoning plans, each containing a small number of housing units or facilities, in the […]
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It is Apartheid: The Reality of Israel’s Colonial Occupation of Palestine
Yet another report has added further weight to the allegation that Israel continues to commit the crime of apartheid on both sides of the Green Line. This latest report has been published by the Negotiations Affairs Department (NAD) of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
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A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
A Threshold Crossed provides irrefutable evidence that the three primary elements of an apartheid crime already exist in Israel’s rule over the Palestinians: intent to maintain the dominance of Jewish Israelis over Palestinians; systematic oppression and institutional discrimination to implement the goal of domination; and the carrying out of a range of inhumane acts against all Palestinians including those enjoying Israeli citizenship.
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Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Calls on UN Committee to Recognise Israel’s Discrimination as Apartheid
“Israel has created an institutionalised regime of racial domination and oppression over the Palestinian people as a whole, using the strategic fragmentation of the indigenous Palestinian people and of the oPt as a main tool for the maintenance of its apartheid regime, which predates its ratification of ICERD and is rooted in the foundational laws of the State of Israel, its discriminatory policies and practices.”
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Captive Markets, Captive Lives | Palestinian Workers in Israeli Settlements
This report by Al-Haq provides insight into the inhumane treatment of Palestinians who work in Illegal Israeli settlements, and it illustrates how their fundamental rights are systematically denied and disregarded, including by a dual legal system that privileges Jewish workers and upholds discriminatory working arrangements.
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Written Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence, Mr. Fabian Salvioli, on Transitional Justice Measures and the Legacy of Human Rights Violations in Colonial Contexts
A Threshold Crossed provides irrefutable evidence that the three primary elements of an apartheid crime already exist in Israel’s rule over the Palestinians: intent to maintain the dominance of Jewish Israelis over Palestinians; systematic oppression and institutional discrimination to implement the goal of domination; and the carrying out of a range of inhumane acts against all Palestinians including those enjoying Israeli citizenship.
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“Report: Number of illegal settlers up 42% since 2010” – Middle East Monitor
Israeli State authorities continue to encourage the displacement of Palestinians to be replaced with Jewish Israeli settlers by expropriating their land through establishing new outposts on Palestinian farmlands and expanding […]