June 2013 Not long ago, Israeli Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett, former chairman of the Judea, Samaria and Gaza Council, called on Israel to impose sovereignty unilaterally on Area C and then grant Israeli citizenship to Area C’s local Palestinian residents, whom he said numbered 50,000. The above proposal considers …
Read More »The E1 plan and its implications for human rights in the West Bank December 2012 This past weekend, the media reported that Israel has decided to advance the planning of thousands of apartments in the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, as part of the E-1 plan, in the area connecting the …
Read More »Dispossessing the Bedouin Go to page 381 for a chapter on the Jahalin entitled “The Greater Jerusalem plan threatens Bedouin communities” “The planned population transfer is the continuation of a pattern of dispossession spurred on by the fast growing but, according to international humanitarian laws, illegal Israeli implantation in Area …
Read More »March 2012 Strong language in the Concluding Observations. Racial discrimination, apartheid, forced displacement, demographic balance policies in Jerusalem, family separation, settler violence, discriminatory legislation such as the Law for the Regulation of the Bedouin Settlement in the Negev, etc. ” […] Recalling its previous concluding observations (CERD/C/ISR/CO/13, para. 32), theCommittee strongly …
Read More »August 2011 “In his communication of 1 February 2011, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, called the attention of the Government of Israel to the alleged demolitions of “unrecognized” Bedouin villages in the Negev desert and the relocation of their inhabitants to government-planned villages. The …
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