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b-0-ngripper · 2 months

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ANYONE THAT CAN, SHOW UP AND DISRUPT THE EVENTS

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #west bank #west bank settlements #illegal occupation #illegal settlements #israel #jerusalem #zionism

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agentfascinateur · 8 months

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Palestinian educators have previously told Middle East Eye that Israeli authorities were aiming to eliminate its curriculum in favour of the Israeli version, in an attempt to erode Palestinian identity and "distort" history.

Academic content Israel has sought to censor, they said, includes the logo of the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian flag, lessons that discuss the Palestinian struggle against occupation, the right of return and prisoners, settlements, the immigration of settlers to Palestine, military checkpoints, the intifada, displaced villages, and considering Zionism a racist political movement.

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odinsblog · 5 months

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Land and Housing

As a result of decades of land confiscations and discriminatory land policies, Israeli authorities have hemmed in Palestinian towns and villages, while nurturing the growth and expansion of Jewish communities, many of which in practice exclude Palestinians. The majority of Palestinians in Israel live in these communities, while some live in “mixed cities” like Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Haifa.

Ninety-three percent of all land in Israel constitutes state land, directly controlled by the Israeli government. Israeli authorities confiscated much of this land, several million dunams, from Palestinians through several different legal instruments, as documented in a later chapter of this report. A government agency, the Israel Land Authority (ILA), manages and allocates state lands. Almost half the members of its governing body belong to the JNF, whose explicit mandate is to develop and lease land for Jews and not any other segment of the population. The fund owns 13 percent of Israel’s land, which the state is mandated to use “for the purpose of settling Jews.”

Israeli authorities have almost exclusively allocated state lands for the development and expansion of Jewish communities. Since 1948, the government has authorized the creation of more than 900 “Jewish localities” in Israel, but none for Palestinians except for a handful of government-planned townships and villages in the Negev and Galilee, created largely to concentrate previously displaced Bedouin communities. Less than 3 percent of all land in Israel falls under the jurisdiction of Palestinian municipalities, where the majority of Palestinian citizens live, according to a 2017 estimate by Israeli and Palestinian groups.

Even inside Palestinian towns and villages within Israel, Israeli authorities discriminatorily restrict the land available for residential growth. The authorities have zoned large sections of Palestinian towns and villages for “agricultural” use or as “green” areas, prohibited residential building in them, and built roads and other infrastructure projects that impede expansion. A 2003 Israeli government-commissioned report found that “many Arab towns and villages were surrounded by land designated for purposes such as security zones, Jewish regional councils, national parks and nature reserves or highways, which prevent or impede the possibility of their expansion in the future.”

While increasing focus in recent years on these issues has resulted in more state-approved residential development, they have done little to date to change the reality of hemmed-in Palestinian towns and villages. By contrast, in case studies documented by Human Rights Watch in each of Israel’s six districts, planning authorities provided sufficient land and zoning permissions to predominantly Jewish communities to facilitate their growth.

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#politics #palestine #gaza #isreal #israel is an apartheid state #illegal settlements #apartheid #displacement #israili apartheid #visualizing palestine #nakba #al nakba #🍉#🇵🇸

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good-old-gossip · 2 months

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Ongoing Palestinian Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing from Historic Palestine

#free palestine #gaza #free gaza #palestine #gazaunderattack #gaza genocide #israel is committing genocide #israel is a terrorist state #israel is an apartheid state #gaza strip #illegal occupation #illegal settlements #israel is a war criminal #israel is evil

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news4dzhozhar · 4 months

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capybaracorn · 1 month

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Land Day: What happened in Palestine in 1976?

Every year on March 30, Palestinians hold protests and vigils and plant olive trees to reaffirm their connection to the land.

(30th of March 2024)

Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza joined the Land Day protests near the eastern Gaza borders, March 30, 2022 [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

Every year on March 30, Palestinians observe Land Day, or Yom al-Ard, recalling the events of March 30, 1976, when six unarmed Palestinians were killed and more than 100 injured by Israeli forces during protests against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian land.

How much land did Israel confiscate?

Israel ordered the confiscation of 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres) of land belonging to Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Galilee. These plans were part of Israeli state policy to Judaise Galilee following the creation of the state of Israel.

The confiscated land is roughly the size of 3,000 football pitches or the area from the tip of Manhattan to Central Park in New York, US.

What do Palestinians do on Land Day?

Palestinians, both inside Israel and across the occupied territory, mark this day by holding protests and vigils and planting olive trees to reaffirm their connection to the land. The protests are often met with brutal use of force by Israel.

Um Ahmad al-Banna was wounded in the protests of March of Return and joined Land Day commemorations in Gaza in 2022 [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

Is Israel still seizing land?

Yes, Israel has continued to seize large swaths of Palestinian land, designating them as military zones, state land and other labels.

Most recently, on March 22, 2024, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared Israel was seizing 800 hectares (1,977 acres) in the occupied West Bank, in a move that would facilitate building more illegal settlements.

“While there are those in Israel and in the world who seek to undermine our right to Judea and Samaria and the country in general, we promote settlement through hard work and in a strategic manner all over the country,” Smotrich said, using Biblical names for the area that are commonly heard in Israel.

Settlements – illegal under international law – are Jewish-only communities built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

On March 6, Israel’s settlement-planning authority announced it had approved the construction of some 3,500 new housing units in Maale Adumim, Kedar and Efrat within the occupied West Bank.

From November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2023, Israel has approved at least 24,000 illegal housing units to be built on Palestinian land.

Earlier this month, the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said settlements had expanded by a record amount and risked eliminating any possibility of a Palestinian state.

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cavalierzee · 6 months

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This Is Gaza

“Israel will do everything it can to keep civilians out of harm’s way.” – President Joe Biden

“Israel will do everything it can to put civilians in harm’s way!”

Israeli Military Sopkesman: Pres. Joe Biden

That’s more accurate and realistic

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claraameliapond · 13 days

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Israeli settlers drive out Palestinian shepherd from West Bank Town

This is land stealing

This is violent brutal occupation

This is terrorism

This is what terrorism looks like

This racism is systemic and endemic to the population and entire ideology for the existence of israel

The whole point of Israels existence is to steal land, to steal Palestine from its indigenous population. It is a nationalist political movement project with international commercial enterprise interests

This brutal violent occupation and underpinning ideology must be dismantled completely to ensure the safety of civilians, children, to ensure self determination and freedom of the Palestinian people

#Decolonise Palestine #Stop Israel's genocide

This is a genocide

This is a cultural genocide as well.

A Palestinian shepherd , what could be more of a biblical parallel?

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typicalbrainchaos · 2 months

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Ruin it for them, guys.

#gaza #free palestine #free gaza #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #palestine #fucking hell #save gaza #freepalastine🇵🇸#idf #west bank #illegal occupation #illegal settlements

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plthroughlegallense · 12 days

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[ISRAEL HAS NO JURISDICTION IN THE WEST BANK]

How can a foreign country imposed their laws on another nation when they are not even citizens of that country?

Israel being a creation of the United Nations, are bound by the United Nations resolutions and borders which specifically creates which areas form part of “Israel”.

It’s no surprise that a country without a formal Constitution may easily get confused in understanding the real meaning of “sovereignty” and “respect for the rule of laws”.

The West Bank is not even part of Israel, the Palestinians are not even granted Israeli Citizenship. Why and on what basis is Israel detaining Palestinians in their own soil when Israeli law only applies within Israel.

Can you imagine if your neighbouring country imposes their laws on your soil when you are not even a citizen of that country?

We surely can’t but somehow the lawless apartheid regime finds no error in it.

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kakashis-kunoichi · 6 months

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I believe I've seen this video before. Absolutely heartbreaking.

#free palestine #gaza #genocide #war crimes #palestine #gaza strip #ceasefire #israeli war crimes #us war crimes #west bank #end occupation #illegal settlements #ethnic cleansing #joe biden #genocide joe #benjamin netanyahu #israel

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agentfascinateur · 1 month

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Six-year-old Mohammed Naeem al-Najar has died of starvation at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

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odinsblog · 2 months

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel appropriated several tracts of land abutting a major Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, but a source briefed on the decision told Reuters there was currently no plan for construction there.

An announcement by the Civil Administration, part of Israel's Defence Ministry, said the tracts amounted to 2,640 dunams, or 652 acres. The Israeli source said they would now be designated part of Maale Adumim settlement, east of Jerusalem.

A spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority said the move underscored Israel's steady push to cut off Jerusalem from the Palestinian areas which surround it and undermine the possibility of creating an independent Palestinian state.

“The Israeli occupation authorities deliberately defy international legitimacy and its resolutions, which have consistently declared the illegitimacy of settlements in all Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem,” Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said.

The West Bank is among territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war and where Palestinians, with international support, seek statehood. Most world powers deem the settlements illegal.

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#politics #palestine #gaza #west bank #israel #rafah #land theft #illegal settlements #settler colonialism #settler violence #israel is a terrorist state #israel is an apartheid state

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nanamins-overtime · 1 year

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If the UN, an international human rights organisation created to ensure international diplomacy and prevent crimes against humanity such as genocide and ethnic cleansing, has a 'bias' against a state it may well be because the state in question is violating human rights and carrying out crimes against humanity such as genocide and ethnic cleansing 😠😠😠

#palestine #free palestine #UN #united nations #international law #crimes against humanity #genocide #ethnic cleansing #apartheid #israel #UK #illegal settlements #annexation #inhumane #Allah grant them ease #rishi sunak #benjamin netanyahu

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news4dzhozhar · 4 months

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#cornel west #alan dershowitz #cognitive dissonance #delusional #baby killers #baby killer israel #israel is committing genocide #genocide #israel is an apartheid state #apartheid #ethnic cleansing #illegal settlements #illegal occupation #icc war crimes tribunal #save palestine #free palestine 🇵🇸

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the-lady-maddy · 2 months

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