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Human Rights Watch – Israel and the Occupied Territories; US State Department – 2009 Human Rights Report: Israel and the occupied territories; A rough guide to Hebron: The world's strangest guided tour highlights the abuse of Palestinians – The Independent, 26 January 2008; MATTI FRIEDMAN, 2014, What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel, The ...
In 1920 Israel Zangwill argued that creating a state free of non-Jews would require a South African type of "racial redistribution". [15] In 1931 Arnold Toynbee prophesied that, given the nature of the Zionist project to secure land only for Jewish use to the exclusion of Palestinian labour, that the British mandatory government would be forced eventually to compensate the process by ...
The report documents the growing influence of Israeli settlers and the worsening human rights situation in the occupied territories, marked by a sharp increase in violence. The Special Committee notes that "by early August 2023, Israeli Forces had already killed more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Israel in 2023 than in any other ...
Declares that basic human rights in Israel are based on the recognition of the value of man, the sanctity of his life, and the fact that he is free. Defines human freedom as right to leave and enter the country, privacy (including speech, writings, and notes), intimacy, and protection from unlawful searches of one's person or property.
Human Rights Watch is the second major rights group in a month to use the word genocide to describe the actions of Israel in Gaza, after Amnesty International issued a report that concluded Israel ...
Some Supreme Court judges see the enactment of this law and Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation as the impetus for the Israeli Constitutional Revolution. [4] The law was enacted on March 17, 1992, in the final days of the 12th Knesset, [5] Shortly after it was introduced into Israeli constitutional documents, it became prevalent in human rights discourse, as well as in freedom of speech cases. [6]
A November 2006 Human Rights Watch report, A Question of Security Violence against Palestinian Women and Girls, notes that, "a significant number of women and girls in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) are victims of violence perpetrated by family members and intimate partners. While there is increasing recognition of the problem and ...
A major 2002 study of Israeli settlement practices by the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem concluded: "Israel has created in the Occupied Territories a regime of separation based on discrimination, applying two separate systems of law in the same area and basing the rights of individuals on their nationality. This regime is the only ...