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Al Nakba is Ongoing Nakba The Necessity to Review Israel Nature, the Root causes and International Responsibilities
Israel is a regime of a colonizing power under the guise of occupation which includes many of the worst features of apartheid,
UN Special Rapporteur, Prof. John Dugard: Human Rights Situation in Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories
Historic Palestine
1917: Jewish- owned land 3-4 % Jews were 7% of the entire population Creation of the Protracted Conflict 1- Establishment of Zionist movement as part of the international colonial movement 2- The Western Colonial Movement in the Middle East: - Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916 - Balfour Declaration (1917) - British Mandate (1917-1948) 3- UN General Assembly Resolution # 181 Partition Plan 4- Creation of the state of Israel
-Facilitating Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine (denationalize Palestinians and legalize Jewish immigrants), - Facilitating land transfer to Jewish/ Zionist Agencies, - Oppressing Palestinians uprising and closing eyes or encouraging undergrounds Zionist Militia Urgon, Haganah and others -Early Withdrawal
1947: Jewish owned- land was 8% Jews became 32% of the entire population.
Partition Plan
Division of Mandate/ Historic Palestine: 56% for a Jewish State although they owned only 8% and were approximately one third of the entire population.
Palestine (OPT),
New wave of Palestinian refugees, about 400,000 Refugees, Israel announced United Jerusalem as its Capital Israel controlled over nature resources and imposed Restrictions on economic development
Ongoing Nakba
Construction of Israeli Jewish Settlements Control over all resource Enacting of Laws enabling it to confiscate Palestinian owned land 3,250 km out of 5,800 km in West Bank, Demolition of more than 18,000 houses from 1967-2007 25% of Palestinians living in Palestine were arrested Discriminatory policies against Palestinians living inside Israel, and those in West Bank Examples: prevention of Refugees and IDPs from return, restitution, compensation, (laws and Judgments) Unrecognized villages The Wall and its Associated regime (segregation), Permits: work permits, housing permits, traveling permits, cultivation permitsetc) Checkpoints and Closure areas and measures, restriction on movements Denial of Family Reunification, Arbitrary torture and arrests, demolition of houses, assassination, or extrajudicial killing and The list is long Ongoing Nakba is an institutionalized Nakb a completion of what started in 1948: the ethnic cleansing process / displacement and dispossession of Palestinians, depopulation of the Palestinian communities, confiscation of Land and prevention Palestinians from exercising their rights
Bypass Roads
Israeli Bypass roads is about 800 Km about 3 % of historic Palestine
To ease the construction of Settlements The Israeli bypass roads in the Palestinian Territory were erected to ease the construction of the illegal Israeli settlements of the West Bank
To limit the development of Palestine was planned and paid by the Israeli Governorate, aiming to limit any kind of construction and development in the Palestinian communities To Prevent the establishment of Palestinian state bypass roads in the occupied Palestinian territory as a part of its policy to coerce facts on the ground; ultimately affecting the outcome of negotiation with the Palestinians; including the establishment of a viable contiguous Palestinian State
The Wall
More than 700 Km in length 54% of the West Bank will remain after the wall (Less than 12 % of Historic Palestine 85% of the Water wells and resources are controlled by Israel Palestinian affected directly by the wall More than 160,000 of Palestinians are Isolated in cantons behind the wall About 200,000 are separated from the cultivated land
Protection gap
There is no UN Agency currently providing protection, in particular, searching for durable solutions for Palestinian refugees and IDPs.
UN Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) mandate to provide assistance to Palestinian refugees in its area of operations (OPT, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon). UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP) mandate to protect Palestinian refugees but Agency is no longer active. UNHCR mandate to protect and assist Palestinian refugees outside UNRWA's areas of operations. Not actively searching for durable solutions however.