ISRAEL HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT

Question 1

Where did the internationally renowned legal term of apartheid originate?

Answer 1

The first universally acknowledged definition of apartheid came from the 1973 Apartheid Convention and later reaffirmed in the 1998 Rome Statute Criminal Court

Question 2

What are the three key elements that constitute apartheid?

Answer 2

An intent to maintain the domination of one racial group over another

Systematic oppression by one racial group over another

One or more inhumane acts as part of that oppression

Question 3

What is the Rome Statute legal definition of persecution?

Answer 3

A discriminatory intent to severe deprivation of fundamental rights of a racial, ethnic or other group.

Question 4

What does Human Rights watch find regarding Palestinians in Israel?

Answer 4

They find that Palestenians are facing several facets of human rights violations, this includes apartheid, mass persecution, mass land confiscation, the denial of residency rights, and the suspension of civil rights.

Question 5

When did the International Criminal Cour officially begin an investigation into ISrael?

Answer 5

In AMrch of 2021 the ICC Office of Prosecutor announced the opening of a formal investigation into the situation in Palestine.

Question 6

How does international human rights law define racial discrimination?

Answer 6

In international human rights law, including the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), race and racial discrimination have been broadly interpreted to include distinctions based on descent, and national or ethnic origin, among other categories.

Question 7

What law did the Knesset pass in 2018 which was extremely alarming to the Human Rights watch?

Answer 7

It passed a law which laid constitutional value to the Israeli Governmnet’s mission to make Israel the “nation-state of the Jewish people” and made “Jewish settlement” a national value. Declaring that the right of self determination is “unique to the Jewish people”

Question 8

What policies has the Israeli government passed to disenfranchise Palestinians?

Answer 8

Policies aimed at limiting the population of Palestenians as well as limiting their political power, granting teh right to vote only to Palestenians who live within the borders of israel as they existed from 1948 to June 1967. Also limiting the ability of palestenians to move to Israel from the OPT.

Question 9

How does Israel treat West Bank Palestenians?

Answer 9

They subject the Palestenians to draconian military law and enforces segregation, largely prohibiting Palestinians from entering settlements.

Question 10

How would you term the 2 different citizenship structures and nationalities in Israel regarding the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians?

Answer 10

We would call that a bifurcation of nationality and citizenship.

Question 11

What does Israel do in the OTP to deny Palestinians the right to live and settle?

Answer 11

There are harsh restricitons on building permits, leading to forcible transfer, the denial of residency rights to hundreds of thousands of Palesinians and their relatives. The way they deny rights to these relatives is by saying that they cannot be reunified for being abroad when the occupation began in 1967, or for long periods during the first few decades of the occupation, or as a result of teh effective freeze on family reunifaction . I ta lso denies them freedom of speech and assembly.

Question 12

How else does ISrael deny reunification and reintegration?

Answer 12

By refusing to permit more tahn 700,00 palestinians who fled or were expelled in 1948, and their descendants, to return to Israel or the OPT, imposing a blanket restriction on legal residency.

Question 13

How many dunams of land have been confiscated from the West Bank by Israel?

Answer 13

2 million dunams or 494210 acres of land. Including tens of thousands of dunhams that they acknowledged were privately owned by Palestinians

Question 14

What proportion of land used for settlement has been acknowledged as state land?

Answer 14

More than 30%

Question 15

What is Area C and how does it relate to the Oslo accords?

Answer 15

Area C is the roughly 60% of the west bank allocated to Israel under the Oslo Accords, now under its full control. Palestinians cannot find a way to get building permit in this area. Authorities approoved less tahn 1.5 percent of applications by Palestinians to build between 2016 and 2018, 27 in totoal. This is compared to 23,696 housing units for ISraeli settlers.

Question 16

What is the Drobles Plan?

Answer 16

A 1980 plan which guided teh government’s settlement policy in the West Bank at the time and built on prior plans which called to settle tehe land between arab minority population centers and their surroundings.

Question 17

What is the Israeli government directly aiming for in Jerusalem?

Answer 17

They want to make the jEWISH TO pALESTINIAN POPULATION RATIO 70 TO 30 PERCENT

Question 18

How many dunams of land have been SEIZED from palestinians?

Answer 18

4.5 million dunams of land, constituting 65 to 75 percent of all land owned by the Palestinians before 1948.

Question 19

How much land do Palestinians have Jurisdiciton over?

Answer 19

less than 3 percent smh.

Question 20

Why are Israelis “disengaging from Gaza?”

Answer 20

Because they want to abandon the Palestinian population since they cannot control it. although it still remains the suprmeme power in Gaza even now. Israel has also implemented a policy of seperation between Gaza and the West Bank.

Question 21

How is Israel resposbile for the severe deprivation in Gaza?

Answer 21

It contributes by limiting the entry of goods and basic services to Gaza, making 80% of the population reliant on humanitarian aid.

Question 22

How is the water supply in Gaza?

Answer 22

The UN determines that more than 96% of the water there should be consumed.

Question 23

How many military offenses have been launched in Gaza since 2008?

Answer 23

8 Large Scale military offensives udner Israeli authorty were laucnhed, indiscriminately killing civilians (2000) in response to rather minor protests or backlash from Gaza.

Question 24

How are rights to residency and nationality attacked?

Answer 24

Since Israel has control over the population registry in the West Bank and Gaza—the list of Palestinians they consider lawful residents for purposes of issuing legal status and identity cards—they deny residency to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Israeli authorities refused to register at least 270,000 Palestinians who were outside the West Bank and Gaza when the occupation began in 1967 and revoked the residency of nearly 250,000, mostly for being abroad for too long between 1967 and 1994.

Question 25

In 1967, when Israel annexed teh West Bank, what law was applied to the Palestinian population living there?

Answer 25

It applied the 1952 Law of Entry and made all Palestinians living there at the time “permanent residents”. The Interior Ministry has revoked teh status of at least 14.701 Palestinians since 1967.

Question 26

What does teh 1952 Citizenship Law state as teh prerequisite needed for Palestinians to become citizens?

Answer 26

Proving they had residency before 1948, inclusion of the population registry in 1952, and continuous presence in Israel or legal entry between 1948 and 1952.This law creates a reality where a Jewish citizen of any other country who has never been to Israel can move there and automatically gain citizenship, while a Palestinian expelled from his home and languishing for more than 70 years in a refugee camp in a nearby country, cannot.

Question 27

What did the Knesset pass in 2003 which proves so controversial?

Answer 27

It passed teh Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law, which effectively denies naturalization to Palestinians who marry israelis or palestinians if they came from the West Bank beforehand.Commenting on a 2005 renewal of the law, the prime minister at the time, Ariel Sharon, said: “There’s no need to hide behind security arguments. There’s a need for the existence of a Jewish state.