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Feb 17

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BREAKING: According to @cogatonline, in the last five years, #Palestinians in Area C were granted 33 building permits, while during the same period, settlers - transferred to occupied territory in violation of #IHL - were granted over 16,500 building permits. Annexation de facto.

The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. It is intended to prevent a practice adopted during the Second World War by certain Powers (...)

which transferred portions of their own population to occupied territory for political and racial reasons or in order, as they claimed, to colonize those territories. Such transfers worsened the economic situation of the native population and endangered their separate existence.

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Feb 16

#SheikhJarrah - again the hotspot for disturbances and tensions caused by the heightened risk of forcible transfer and supplanting of its #Palestinian inhabitants with #Israeli settlers- has been at the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since its inception.

@ICRC

#SheikhJarrah is also the place where international humanitarian law #IHL saw a major development in relation to the protection of medical personnel and transports and the role played by the @ICRC and national Red Cross and Crescent Societies @ifrc:

On April 9, 1948, when militants from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi killed an estimated number of 250 Palestinians, including women and children, in #DeirYassin, a village of roughly 600 people near #Jerusalem.

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Feb 15

Demolitions carried out by #Israeli authorities in the West Bank reached a 5-year high. 904 structures were demolished. This represents a 6% increase in the number of structures demolished and a 20% increase in the number of people displaced respectively, compared with 2020.

The table demonstrates that the number of demolitions recorded in the West Bank in 2021 is the highest since 2016. 900 of the structures were demolished due to a lack Israeli of building permits, which is impossible for Palestinians to obtain.

@naftalibennett

A bird’s-eye view on 2021 reveals that demolitions resulted in the displacement of 1,205 individuals, otherwise affecting a further 12,693 individuals. Particularly the period from July to December, under the @naftalibennett - @yairlapid government.

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Feb 15

@RajiSourani

Heartfelt congratulations to @RajiSourani, @SJabaren, and Prof. John Dugard for their appointment as Permanent Court of Arbitration @PCA_CPA Members of the Court and potential arbitrators, put forward by @PalMissionNL.

The PCA has a captivating history of interstate arbitrations, including sovereignty and maritime delimitation in the Red Sea, and current #RussiaUkraineCrisis disputes on coastal States' rights and detention of Ukrainian naval vessels.

In 2008, the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement deposited an Arbitration Agreement with the PCA. The arbitration was conducted under the PCA Optional Rules for Arbitrating Disputes between Two Parties of Which Only One is a State.

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Feb 1

Without prejudice to the existence or subsequent emergence of other peremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens), a non-exhaustive list of
norms that the International Law Commission has previously referred to as having
that status is:

The prohibition of aggression;

The basic rules of international humanitarian law;
The prohibition of racial discrimination and #apartheid; The right of self-determination.

Peremptory norms of general international law (jus cogens) reflect and
protect fundamental values of the international community, are hierarchically
superior to other rules of international law and are universally applicable.

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Jan 28

In November 1974, the question of #Palestine was reintroduced to the agenda of the UN General Assembly, after decades of being subsumed by the Arab-Israeli conflict. Let's see how it was considered then, and how it would apply 48 years later.

1. Deeply concerned that no just solution to the problem of Palestine has yet been achieved - true then, unfortunately, true now.

2. Reaffirms that the Palestinian people in Palestine are entitled to (a) self-determination without external interference; (b) national independence and sovereignty. Remains true, yet unrealized in full, despite nominal self-rule.

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