How is President Trump’s plan to solve the Israeli Palestinian conflict being received on the ground? The BBC’s Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman went to visit two homes in the occupied West Bank; starting with a Palestinian family whose house is in a fenced off enclave within an Israeli settlement. Israel has said it intends...Read More

Since 1967, Israel has revoked the residency status of more than 14,500 Palestinians from Jerusalem. Revocation of residency leads to forcible transfer, a war crime under the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court and a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.Read More

  Today, Israeli authorities maintain a single regime of control over the borders, airspace, population registry and economic activity of the territories of Israel, West Bank and Gaza.  Read More

The definition of Israel as "the Jewish State" or "the State of the Jewish People" makes inequality a practical, political and ideological reality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, who are marginalized and discriminated against by the state on the basis of their national belonging and religious affiliation as non-Jews. Additionally, the Palestinian minority is not...Read More

The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, has warned that the recently-announced US plan "is not a recipe for a just and durable peace but rather endorses the creation of a 21st century Bantustan in the Middle East" consisting of "scattered archipelagos...Read More

"[T]he Committee draws the State party’s attention to its general recommendation 19 (1995) concerning the prevention, prohibition and eradication of all policies and practices of racial segregation and apartheid, and urges the State party to give full effect to article 3 of the Convention to eradicate all forms of segregation between Jewish and non-Jewish communities...Read More

Since the Palestinian Nakba on 1948, and because of displacement and settlement of the Israeli occupation state, the Palestinians who are estimated with 12.7 million, were dispersed as refugees and migrants around the world.  About half the Palestinians live in historic Palestine, under Israeli occupation. Third of the Palestinian refugees registered in The United Nations...Read More

For over 100 years, the Zionist colonization of the historic lands of Palestine accelerated, starting from the first Zionist colony "Rishon LeTsiyon", under Ottoman rule, continuation of building colonies under the British mandate, until the day that Israel occupies West Bank, Gaza and Syrian Golan Heights.Read More

"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...Read More

Since 1967, the pace of rapid construction of Israeli settlements has accelerated, in parallel with the destruction and demolition of hundreds of Palestinian homes by the occupation authorities. More than 94000 settlement were built by the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian territories since 1967. More than 47000 house were demolished by the Israeli occupation in...Read More