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South Africa?

Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize 1984

“If you change the names, the description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would be a description of what is happening in South Africa.”

Protesting theTaking of land

Do you think of this man? Do you think of this man?

“When Israel does occupy this territory deep within the West Bank, and connects the 200-or-so settlements with each other, with a road, and then prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than we witnessed even in South Africa."

Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize 2002

In 1973, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the

Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, a crime against humanity.

The word ‘Apartheid’ means separation., ‘Apartheid’ is defined by the UN as “…a

system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination for the

purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group … over

another …

and systematically oppressing them…” by: creating ghettos; land confiscation; bans on

freedom of movement, speech assemblies and mixed marriages; illegal arrest and detention.

“….injustice and gross human rights violations were being perpetrated in Palestine. In the same period the UN took a strong stand against apartheid; ….which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."

Nobel Peace Prize 1993

Above: Guard tower Hebron

Palestinians are ghettoized on 12% of their original land.

Apartheid is where citizens are given citizenship in a small isolated canton so they have no rights in the country as a whole.

The West Bank is divided up into 70 isolated cantons with no physical movement between them without Israeli permission.

This disposition is reminiscent of Apartheid in South Africa, which set aside 13% of the land as "Bantustan" homelands for black South Africans.

Two systems: separate and unequal

Economic strangulation and starvation•Poverty West Bank 57% (79% in Gaza Strip)•46 % don’t have enough food to meet their needs 1Milllion live on less than 50 cents per/dayUN-OCAH, 2008

Brutality of occupation Between 2000-2008•Palestinians Killed by Israeli security forces 4792

•Israelis killed by Palestinians 490

•Palestinians killed during the course of a targeted killing 386•B’Tselem

Apartheid means the entire political, Apartheid means the entire political, legal and economic system is designed to legal and economic system is designed to enforce the privilege of one group over enforce the privilege of one group over

another. another.

Water resources stolen•The Israeli military authority controls virtually all the water in the West Bank. 73% of West Bank water is piped back to Israel. 73% of West Bank water is piped back to Israel.

•Palestinians have access to only 17% of their own water and Palestinians have access to only 17% of their own water and must buy it from must buy it from Israel at 4 times the price Israelis pay.

Richard colbath-hess

Palestinians killed by Israeli civilians 45Israeli civilians killed by Palestinians 236Israeli security force personnel killed by Palestinians 245Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces 4757Number of them not involved in hostilities 2224from b'Tselem


Poverty increased from 23% to 57% (79% in Gaza Strip)(Income-based definition, PCBS, 2006)GDP per capita declined by 40% (2006 compared to 1999, IMF, Economic Developments 2006)34% of Palestinians (1.3 million) are food insecure(WFP and FAO)From UN-OCAH


Palestinians killed by Palestinians 593Palestinians who took part in the hostilities and were killed by Israeli security forces 1662


B’Tselem Water Crisis 2007 report.

Children killed 2000-2008Israeli 39Palestinian 1200

Just getting to school can be a hardship

30% of Palestinian children in Gaza and the West bank are malnourished50% are anemic. (UNICEF and USAID)

4000 Palestinian children have been arrested since the year 2000. They can be held 6 month without charge.

Since 2000, 269 schools have been damaged as a result of shelling the Israeli Army

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Palestinian Built-up areas in the West Bankpop. 2,444,500PCBS 2006

149 Israeli settlements,96 outposts(1,006km2)(71 mi2)pop. 450,000In 2006

(As of March 2007)

CheckpointsTrenchesRoad gatesRoadblocksEarthmoundsFlying checkpointsRoad barriers

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. The control matrix of Apartheid : The control matrix of Apartheid :bans on freedom of movement, so bans on freedom of movement, so one population remains isolated with one population remains isolated with few rightsfew rights

Richard Colbath-Hess

The Matrix of control concept from Jeff Halper ICAHD

TOTAL (23 October 2007)562

EarthmoundsA mound of rubble, dirt and/or rocks used to obstruct vehicle access.

211

CheckpointsA barrier manned by IDF and/or Border Police.

69

33.5 km

TrenchesA ditch used to prevent vehicle crossing.

17

Road GatesA metal gate, often manned by IDF, used to control movement along roads.

84

RoadblocksA series of 1 metre high concrete blocks used to obstruct vehicle access.

67

Earth WallsA continuous wall or seriesof earth mounds used to restrict access.

28 14.5 km

Partial CheckpointsAn established checkpoint operating periodically.

19

Road barriersRoad barriers placed alongside major roads prevent movement across the roads.

67 123.3 km

From UN OCHAH 2008

Bans on freedom of Bans on freedom of movement for movement for Palestinians.Palestinians.No bans for Israelis. No bans for Israelis.

Objection to the Barrier based on its route

– not the Barrier itself.

“The construction of the wall being built by Israel... in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem... [is] contrary to international law. Israel is under obligation... to dismantle forthwith the structure... [and] make reparation for all damage caused...”International Court of Justice advisory opinion, July 9, 2004

The wall fragments Palestinian communities: it separates families from their land, their livelihood, health care and schools. The wall also divides communities and families from each other. The wall does not fragment Israeli settlements; it is built in such a way to as to annex them to Israel proper.


Israel’s Wall: The Facts- The construction of Israel’s Wall began on the 16th of June, 2002.- The Wall consists of a series of 25-foot-high concrete slabs, trenches, barbed wire “buffer zones”, electrified fencing, numerous watch towers, thermal imaging video cameras, sniper towers and roads for patrol vehicles.- The Wall will eventually extend over 721 km, more than 56% of which has already been completed.- The Wall costs approximately $3.7 million per kilometer.- 80% of the Wall is being built in the West Bank on land confiscated from Palestinians by the Israeli military. Only 20% of the Wall is being built on the Green Line, which marks the division between Israel and Palestinian land that it occupied in 1967. No section of the Wall is being built on the Israeli side of the Green Line.- More than 230 km2 of the West Bank’s most fertile land – approximately 10% of all West Bank agricultural land – has been confiscated to build the Wall.- The Wall is consolidating existing inequalities between Israelis and Palestinians with regard to access to water. It will annex 70% of the total recharge area of the Western Aquifer basin to Israel, together with 62 springs and 134 Palestinian wells.- Upon completion the Wall will also isolate some 60,500 Palestinians living in 42 villages and towns in a closed military zone limbo between the Wall and the Green Line. 12 villages with a total population of 31,400 Palestinians will be completely surrounded by the Wall.The Wall Under International Law- An adviosry opinion by the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the 9th of July 2004 recognized that construction of the Wall is “contrary to international law,” and that Israel is under obligation to cease the Wall’s construction, dismantle the existing structure, and make reparations for any damage caused by the construction.- Construction of the Wall and the annexation of occupied land is prohibited under the laws governing actions of occupying powers, specifically The Hague Convention of 1907 and the fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. The Wall’s construction further violates a basic principle of the laws of occupation that legal rights to land cannot be acquired by way of military occupation.Settlements and the Wall- The Wall will annex 56 Israeli settlements in the West Bank, in which up to 76% of Israeli settlers live, to Israel. In order to incorporate the Ariel settlement bloc, the Wall cuts some 22 km into West Bank lands.Economic and Humanitarian Implications of the Wall- The Wall has serious humanitarian consequences. Palestinians have been cut off from their farmland and livelihoods, places of employment, schools, universities, social networks, and health services. Women continue to be forced to deliver at checkpoints and newborns continue to die as a result because they are cut off from accessing, and being accessed by emergency services.- 10% of some of the most fertile Palestinian land has been isolated between the Wall and the Green Line. Now, 60% of farming families with land to the west of the Wall can no longer access their land.Implications of the Wall for a Future Palestinian State- While Israel’s government initially claimed the Wall was being built for ‘security’ reasons, it has since admitted that the Wall is designed to serve a political purpose, namely to annex Israeli settlement blocs to Israel and to determine the permanent borders of the Israeli state in such a way that the creation of any future, contiguous, viable Palestinian state within its 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, will be irreversibly undermined.- East Jerusalem will be completely severed from the rest of the West Bank by the Wall, serving as what UN Special Rapporteur Professor John Dugard has termed “an instrument of social engineering designed to achieve the Judaization of Jerusalem by reducing the number of Palestinians in the city.”- Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in 1967 equal 23% of the land of historic Palestine. Completion of the Wall will leave Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip living on just 12% of these territories.

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PalestinianBuilt-up

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Restricted Accessfor Palestinians

Seasonal Accessfor Palestinians

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Habla Tunnel

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IKONOS imagery Jan 2004

Settlement expansion

Jayyus’ Land

Water wells

Areas A and B(Oslo Accords)

149 Israeli settlements,96 outpost and land cultivated by Israelis

Israeli military closed areas and 27 military bases

Nature Reserves

West Bank Barrier and Areas between the Barrier and the Green Line

Roads primarily used by the settlers

Closures

The effect of the closures

Fragmentation of the West Bank

Checkpoints

Tunnels(As of March 2007)

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Even the former Prime Minister of Israel. Ehud Olmert . said failure of the peace process will sink Israel in a South Africa apartheid struggle.

"If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Haaretz. November 29, 2007

Who is this Man? Who is this Man?

Palestinian child in Raffa after homebull dozed in2002. B” Tselem

2007, East Jerusalem

Two Systems Separate and Unequal Two Systems Separate and Unequal

Palestinian villages and towns face collective punishmentin the form of bulldozing family houses, extended 24 hour curfews, road closures, military raids, violence and harassment. Israeli settlers face no such collective punishment.

There have been over 18,000 house demolitions in the Occupied Territories, including East Jerusalem, since 1967. There has been no widespread destruction of Jewish Israeli homes.


United Nations General Assembly (1984). “Report of the Secretary-General, Living Conditions of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” Retrieved 25 September 2006 from . This is the source for all statistics on demolitions between 1967 and 1982. In the actual report these are listed as punitive demolitions because all demolitions were classified as “Collective Punishment.”


The main reason homes of Palestinines are demolished is because they don't have a permit, it is almost imposible for a pal to get a permit under occuption. the other reason to demolish homes 15% are retaliaiton for attaches on Isreailis.


According the Human rights watch Collective punishment is a violation of the fourth Geneva convention serious violations of international humanitarian law, including the mistreatment of persons in custody and deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian property, when committed with criminal intent amount to war crimes (HRW June 2008)

Two Systems Separate and Unequal Two Systems Separate and Unequal

Item tree’sIn 2001, Israeli Defense MinisterShaul Mofaz declared, “The D-9 is a strategic weapon ”


trees are detroyed, 1. to make room for settlement2. collective punishement the army uses as an excuse stone througher hide behind them3 to make room for the wall. 4. settler destroy tree's to destroy livly hood in hope pal move away


Olive trees, the foundation of the Palestinianeconomy for generations anda symbol of the Palestinian people’sattachment to their land, are prime targetsof the Israeli occupation forces.

The permit system for the Closed Zone is administered in an arbitrary and humiliating manner…This system,

which subjects Palestinian freedom of movement to the whim of the Occupying

Power, creates anger, anxiety and humiliation among the population.“

(UNHCHR)

Palestinians face widespread curfews. For example, in 2002 through 2003 there were more than 500 days of curfew in Hebron. It would be lifted every few days for two or three hours so people could get food. There was one stretch of over 180 consecutive days. Israeli setters face no such curfews.

In Hebron separate sidewalks exist for Israelis and Palestinians.


Hebron - 435 Israelis are nestled within the city limits of Hebron in co-habitation with approximately 180,00 Palestinians. The settlers are "guarded" by approximately 1,500 to 2,000A living hell, separate sidewalks for Israeli’s and Palestinians. Palestinians have to negotiate aSerious of check points just to go from home to workIsraeli's are waived right through. see counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman01252008.html


residents were under curfew restrictions for over 377 days, including a 182 day non-stop period with spotty breaks to restock essentials. In addition, on more than 500 days, H-2 was under curfews that lasted from a few hours to entire days. Along with other restrictions covered below, they made life unbearable, and that was the whole idea behind them. Israelis claimed that harsh measures were to let Jewish settlers conduct their daily lives securely. In fact, they were collective punishment by being randomly imposed or for reasons unrelated to security.

Settler throwing stones at Palestinians during olive harvest.Israeli soldiers are prohibited from Intervening .

While Palestinians live under brutal occupation with water shortages, Israeli settler live in luxury right next door.

Settlement of Ariel outside Jerusalem

Palestinians are under Military Law. They face the constant threat of arrest and detention without charge and can be held indefinitely. They have no right to representation or trial. Israelis living in illegal settlements on Palestinian land have all the privileges of Israeli Civil Law. As citizens of Israel, they can vote, seek redress in court, and have freedom of speech and assembly.

Huwara check point


a man I was visiting in 2007 had his children attached by settlers with stones. apon arriving he picked up a stick to defend his children. He was imedialy arrested and held with out charge for 3 months

Palestinians are prohibited from using the extensivenetwork of settler only highways that connect thesettlements to Israel.

Map of Israeli only roads and how they connect the settlements to Israel proper.

Palestinian cars from the OPT have green license plates. Israeli cars have yellow license plates and can pass right through check points.

PalestinianPalestinian workers employed in settlement industrialworkers employed in settlement industrialzones zones receive receive only the only the sweatshop-like minimum wagesweatshop-like minimum wagemandated by Jordanian law in 1967. In the settlements,mandated by Jordanian law in 1967. In the settlements,Israeli workers receive all the rights and benefits of Israeli workers receive all the rights and benefits of

Israeli employment lawIsraeli employment law including a including a much larger much larger minimum-wage

Areil settlement industrial zone.

There are currently seven industrial zones in the west bank all located on illegally confiscated land.

Separating Separating the peoplethe peoplefrom their from their land.land.


The Electronic Intifada, 6 October 2008 In 1999, the United Nations Economic and Social Council criticized the practice of Israeli companies, including most of those operating in the Barkan park, moving their factories to the Palestinian workers exploited at West Bank settlement factoriesAdri Nieuwhof, West Bank to escape the higher health and environment standards applicable in Israel. Kav LaOved states in its report that the Royalnight textile plant is no different: "Health and safety standards are poor, the working environment is noisy and the air is full of fabric dust. Most work is carried out standing, and the workers take five minutes breaks at their own expense. electronic intafata

““Apartheid was all about land. Apartheid was about keeping the best parts of the country for the whites and sending the blacks to the least habitable, least desirable parts of the country.”

John Dugard, South African human rights lawyer and UN Special Rapporteur to the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Right: Har Homa Settlement on confiscated land in Bethlehem.

Nearly 500,000 IsraeliSettlers live in the westBank

The United States and Israel signed a Memorandum of The United States and Israel signed a Memorandum of Understanding in August, 2007, committing the U.S. to Understanding in August, 2007, committing the U.S. to give Israel $30 billion in military aid over the next decade.give Israel $30 billion in military aid over the next decade.

Below;Below; US made white US made white phosphorus phosphorus illegally dropped on UN illegally dropped on UN School in GAZA, 2009School in GAZA, 2009

US made tank in US made tank in Occupied West BankOccupied West Bank

“There is no Zionism, colonization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.”

Ariel Sharon, Nov. 15, 1998

Ethnic cleansing continues inside Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank.

For example the West Bank is zoned agricultural and no building permits are issued except to settlers.

If land is not Cultivated for 3 years it is

confiscated. Settles throw stones at Palestinians especially during olive harvest to keep them off their land


1.examples Jaffa, 2 seam zone issued 6 mo permits3. residency law in jeruslam where pal can lose residency and isreal c/n4. how if you leave the country if pal you lose citizenship and isreal d/n5. unrecongnized villages. 6 1948 ethinc cleansing7. 18,000 homes budozed


How does the state of Israel justify and legalize such confiscation of lands?1. Declaration of state land -- the most common method Israel uses in order to confiscate land is to declare it state land. The method is based on a law from the Ottoman era (from 1858) that allow the Sultan to confiscate land that had neither been planted nor cultivated for three years in a row. Over the years Israel sought out land that was not being cultivated in the West Bank and declared it as state land. In this way Israel confiscated more than 900,000 dunams in the West Bank.2. Confiscation for public needs -- Israel sometimes also used a confiscation order for public needs in order to take over land. According to the law, the confiscated land should serve the needs of the whole public in the area, including the Palestinian public, and that is why Israel used that method usually in order to pave roads, which it could claim were also going to serve the Palestinians. This kind of confiscation order cannot be used in order to build an actual settlement, because the public for which the settlement is intended is the public of the occupying power and not the entire public in the area. Nonetheless, as far as we know, confiscation for public needs was used in order to build the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim.3. Initial registration -- another option the State has is to begin a process of registering the land in the name of the State in the land registry. The process of land registration can take a long time if there are land owners who claim ownership, and then the parties have to prove ownership in a long and drawn out process. The only case Peace Now knows of in which the procedure of initial registration of land was used as a means to turn land into state land is the case cited above, of the three orders issued in July 2008 for the purpose of expanding the settlement of Efrat. It is possible that the authorities chose the registration procedure instead of the declaration procedure to try to avoid what could be perceived as a "confiscation," and to claim that it was "merely" a standard administrative procedure to register the land.4. Seizure for military needs -- another way to take over land is by issuing a seizure order for military needs. It is important to note that a seizure order does not change the status of the land or transfer ownership rights to the State, but only the rights to use the land for a limited period of time that appeared in the seizure order, and only for military needs. At the end of the military need the land is supposed to revert to it owners. In the past, seizure orders for military needs were used widely in order to build settlements but in 1979, following the Elon More petition to the High Court of Justice, the use of seizure orders in order to build settlements was forbidden. Many seizure orders continue to be issued for the construction of the separation fence and various military facilities throughout the West Bank.5. Absentee lands -- a special order gives the State the power to manage the properties of people who fled the West Bank in 1967, and actually to occupy them until they come back. The order allows the commissioner of governmental and abandoned property to lease and even sell the land. As far as we know such properties were used for settlements mainly in the Jordan Valley area, but we do not know on what scale and where.

No protection for minorities in the constitution

Arab parties have been expelled from the Parliament

Citizenship rights are unequal: Jews have right of return . In 2003, the Law of Citizenship states that even if a Jewish Israeli marries a Palestinian they can not become an Israeli citizen.

Budgets & Resource Allocation is unequal . Palestinian Arab areas receive substantially less funding for local government (usually only half as much), welfare, school facilities or other education programmers.

Military Service confers wide social and economic privileges . Jewish Yeshiva students, who don't do military service, are still given the benefits. Palestinian Arab citizens aren't.

Unrecognized villages .Over 70,000 Palestinian Arab citizens live in these villages

Ethnic cleansing and limiting of growth of Arab communities. There have been no new Arab communities since the creation of Israel and communities such as Jaffa are being ethnically cleansed of Palestinians. Arabs own just two percent of the land, down from 85 percent in 1948. This loss of land has to do mostly with land confiscation that continues to this day.


Over 70,000 Palestinian Arab citizens live in these villages threatened with destruction and prevented from development or even from repairing existing homes or building new ones. They are denied all forms of basic services and infrastructure - such as drinking water and health clinics- and are unable to build or develop their communities in any way.

88 Jerusalemite houses in Al-Bustan neighborhood near to Al-Aqsa mosque will be demolished leaving more than 1500 Jerusalemites homeless without any shelter; such plans reveals the extent of the ongoing Israeli process of shifting Jerusalem to a pure Jewish city since the year 1967.

Department of Arab & International Relations /PLORamallah- PalestineFeb. 24th, 2009

No matter what you call it: the over 40 years of occupation of the West Bank and Gaza are ILLEGAL, IMMORAL and UNJUST.

Exports – current number of trucks:

- AMA target – 400 / day- 2007 average – approx. 55 /day- Since June 2007 – 0

Imports – currently only basic items – food, medicines

85% industrial / manufacturing sites closed – 75,000 people newly unemployed

No agricultural planting taking place for export crops

80% of Gaza families receive assistance, others will soon begin receiving

Link between Gaza and West Bank needed for economic and social viability – no ‘safe passage’ – no physical ties between the GS and the WB

The Gaza StripAugust 200521 Settlements~9,000 Israeli settlers

The Gaza Strip2007

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Access andMovement Data

Erez Crossing Point

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As quoted in NY Times December 24, 1989.Slide 5 Peace Not apartheid. 2007Slide 6United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/11.htmRatifying vote.http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/treaty8_asp.htm

Slide 7Address by President Nelson Mandela at the International day of solidarity with the Palestinian people 1997.http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1997/sp971204b.html

Slide 8International Development Research Center Canada.http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/archive/corpdocs/119922/Word/3-119922-Chapter01.doc14 http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article13UN OCHO (United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) MonitorsCheck Points in the West Bank. http://www.ochaopt.org

Slide 9 Poverty: from Un=OCHA 2008 Soco-Economic Factor in the Occupied Palestinian Territories http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/OCHA_oPt_SocioEconomics_Fact_Sheet_April_2008_English.pdfFatalities: B’Tselem 2000-2008http://www.btselem.org/english/Statistics/Casualties.aspWater: B’Tselem Water Crisis 2007 Report.http://www.btselem.org/english/Water/Shared_Sources.asp

Slide 10Palestinian Monitorhttp://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article11Palestinian ministry to prison affairshttp://sumoud.tao.ca/?q=node/view/720Barriers to education fact sheet Birzeit Universityhttp://right2edu.birzeit.edu/downloads/pdfs/BarriersFactSheet_2005.pdf

Slide 11-15UN OCHA (United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Power Point

Slide 13(United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Maps theWest Bank and fragmentation of land. http://www.ochaopt.org

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/11.htm

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/treaty8_asp.htm

http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1997/sp971204b.html

http://www.ochaopt.org/

http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/OCHA_oPt_SocioEconomics_Fact_Sheet_April_2008_English.pdf

http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/OCHA_oPt_SocioEconomics_Fact_Sheet_April_2008_English.pdf

http://www.btselem.org/english/Statistics/Casualties.asp

http://www.btselem.org/english/Water/Shared_Sources.asp

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article11

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article11

http://sumoud.tao.ca/?q=node/view/720

http://right2edu.birzeit.edu/downloads/pdfs/BarriersFactSheet_2005.pdf

http://www.ochaopt.org/

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Haaretz. November 29, 2007

Slide 17B’Tselem 2007 Annual report: Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Page 13.www.btselem.org/Download/200712_Annual_Report_eng.doc Human Rights Watch2004 Briefing to the o the 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/01/29/isrlpa7482.htm

United Nations General Assembly (1984). “Report of the Secretary-General, Living Conditions of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” Retrieved 25 September 2006 from . This is the source for all statistics on demolitions between 1967 and 1982. In the actual report these are listed as punitive demolitions because all demolitions were classified as “Collective Punishment.”

According the Human rights watch Collective punishment is a violation of the fourth Geneva convention serious violations of international humanitarian law, including the mistreatment of persons in custody and deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian property, when committed with criminal intent amount to war crimes (HRW June 2008)

Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions: 2007. Article: Demolition Statistics Since1967. http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=402United Nations Commission on Human Rights 2004 Report: Question of the Violation of Human rights in the Occupied Arab Territories, Including,Palestine.

Slide 18 Quote ; Including,://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=455Shaul Mofaz Quoterhttp://www.btselem.org/Download/200101_Civilians_Under_Siege_Eng.doc

Slide 19Curfews; http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman01252008.htmlPermit System quote: UNHCR Commission on Human Rights, Sixtieth Session.http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/fd807e46661e3689852570d00069e918/2aa105942bee1a2e85256e67006e6d7b!OpenDocument

Slide 20B’Tselem 2007 Annual report: Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Page 33.www.btselem.org/Download/200712_Annual_Report_eng.docInfastructure in the West Bank, July 2007. http://www.ochaopt.org/

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http://www.btselem.org/Download/200712_Annual_Report_eng.doc

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/01/29/isrlpa7482.htm

http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=402

http://www.btselem.org/Download/200101_Civilians_Under_Siege_Eng.doc

B'Tselem, "Forbidden Roads: The Discriminatory West Bank Road Regime," August 2004.

Slide 22Cementing Israeli Apartheid: The Role of World Bank.http://contradictme.wordpress.com/the-world-bank-funds-israel-palestine-wallAlso: ((Kav L’Oved, Israeli workers rights organization

Slide 23UN OCHA The Humanitarian Impact on Palestinians of Israeli settlements and other

Slide 24Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Documenthttp://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2007/Signing%20of%20Memorandum%20of%20Understanding%20between%20Israel%20and%20the%20United%20States%2016-Aug-2007

Slide 25Sharon Quote:http://mideastfacts.org/facts/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=27 Peace Now 2008-09 Reporthttp://www.peacenow.org.il/site/en/peace.asp?pi=61&fld=495&docid=3497Badil: Ongoing Nakba http://www.badil.org/al-majdal/2008/autumn-winter/majdal39-40.pdf

Slide 26Fact sheet Interfaith peace Initiative http://www.interfaithpeaceinitiative.com/ApartheidDiscussion.htm

Badil: Ongoing Nakba http://www.badil.org/al-majdal/2008/autumn-winter/majdal39-40.pdf

Slide 29 and 31UN OCHA (United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Power Point

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