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.
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.
A total of 140 structures constituting humanitarian assets, including residential and livelihood structures, funded by the @EU_Commission@eu_echo or @EUCouncil Member States were demolished or seized in 2021.
The material loss of these targeted structures is EUR 331,031, which is more than 10% higher than in 2020 (EUR 300,233). Between 2016 and 2021, a total of 673 EU-funded structures were demolished or seized by Israeli authorities, representing an accumulative value of EURO 2.1 M.
@IsraelMFA@cogatonline maliciously and arbitrarily deprived #Palestinians of 2 million EUR of humanitarian relief provided by the @eu_echo and @EUCouncilPress Member States. #Israel must cease the wanton obstruction of humanitarian aid and provide reparations to victims.
@NRC_Norway has called on States to consider measures of retorsion to enforce the cessation of demolitions, reparations to victims, and guarantees of non-repetition of wrongful destruction of property, including humanitarian aid, on the part of Israel.
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Today, #Israel is to report to the @CIJ_ICJ on the implementation of the order of provisional measures (24 May), including:
* Immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the #Rafah Governorate
* Maintain open the Rafah crossing for unhindered provision at scale of urgently needed basic
services and humanitarian assistance
* Ensure unimpeded access to the #Gaza Strip of any commission of inquiry or other investigative body mandated by competent organs of the @UN @UN_HRC
* Since 24 May, 1,631 Palestinians were killed, and 6,453 were injured in Gaza, many of them in and around Rafah
* The Rafah crossing was destroyed by Israeli forces and remains inoperable
* Israel rejected the recent report by the HRC Commission of Inquiry and remains noncooperative
Israel brought the humanitarian operation to a near standstill, @eu_eeas High Representative @JosepBorrellF and @eu_echo Commissioner @JanezLenarcic issued a warning that "due to the ongoing military operations and the collapse of law and order in Gaza, our partners are forced to operate in an unacceptably unsafe environment [...] Operations are at risk of breaking down if no action is taken. eeas.europa.eu/eeas/gaza-stat…
BREAKING: @CIJ_ICJ decides by a vote 13-2 that #Israel shall immediately halt its military offensive in #Rafah.
The Order issued by the Court is without appeal, and according to Article 94 of the UN Charter, "Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with the decision of the International Court of Justice in any case to which it is a party".
If any party to a case fails to perform the obligations incumbent upon it under a judgment rendered by the Court, "the other party may have recourse to the Security Council #UNSC, which may, if it deems necessary, decide upon measures to be taken to give effect to the judgment".
While international attention is given to atrocity crimes committed by #Israel in #Gaza, its Parliament preceded - in a preliminary vote - with committing the crime of aggression - annexing the southern parts of the West Bank along with its numerous settlements.
The draft bill redefines the geography of the Negev Desert (in red) to include the metropolitan territory of #Israel and the "area", a synonym for occupied #Palestinian territory. The ancillary note explains the "desire for equality and non discrimination" between Israelis.
The backstory to Israel's 'annexation via policy measures', accelerated since 7 October under the fog of war:
The journey to #Palestinian political independence and #statehood, a few milestones worth recalling in view of the decision of #Norway, #Ireland, and #Spain (and other WEOG states soon to follow):
1. In 1974, the UN General Assembly decided that the Palestinian people are the principal party to the question of political independence and permanent sovereignty of #Palestine, invested with a right to external self-determination and represented by the Palestine Liberation Organization #PLO.
2. By 1988, the General Assembly, recalling Res. 181, calling for the establishment of an Arab and Jewish States, affirmed the State of # Palestine right to exercise sovereignty in the territory occupied since 1967. The right to self-determination was matched with a territory - creating a 'self-determination unit.'
In 2019 I recovered this 7 July 1967 condimental memo from Theodor Meron, #Israeli MFA legal counsel, on the application of the Hague Regulations of 1907 and the Fourth Geneva Convention to territories just occupied by Israel and the prohibition on annexation.
If only legal counsel Meron was listened to then, Judge Meron would not have to conclude now that the evidence presented by the @IntlCrimCourt Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC "provides reasonable grounds to believe that #Netanyahu and #Gallant have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity."
International Court of Justice #ICJ @CIJ_ICJ Judge Georg Nolte asks #Israel the question on the question on the mind of numerous humanitarians and legal scholars - how can it guarantee safety and proper accommodation for forcibly displaced Palestinians in #Gaza?
In particular, Jude Nolte asked for information on satisfactory conditions of shelter, hygiene, health, and nutrition in areas to which #Israel has forced Gazans, including the 600K forced from #Rafah to #AlMawasi most recently.
Proper accommodation, safety, and a guarantee that persons disputed shall be transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities have ceased are the elements that distinguish an evacuation of a given area from forcible transfer, which is prohibited regardless of motive.