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.
Data source: @Israel_MOD Deputy Minister at Knesset Question Time yesterday, inquiry not yet posted online.
Permit approval rates for Palestinians, on average for the last five years is, 1.5-2.5%. Israel has imposed an unlawful and discriminatory planning regime that effectively denies all Palestinians of their housing, land, and property rights, including security of tenure.
Antiquated spatial plans - dating back to the British Mandate - which the Israeli Military Government won't review or revise are used to deny Palestinians, while exceptionally allowing for the establishment and constant expansion of settlements, in breach of international law.
"The following is a list of building permits issued to the Palestinian sector in Area C: In 2017 - six permits; In 2018 - five permits; In 2019 - two permits; In 2020 - ten permits, and in 2021 - ten permits [...]
[...] I would like to point out that in the areas of the master plan in the Israeli localities in Judea and Samaria, building permits are issued by local planning committees in local regional councils and municipalities, and not by the Civil Administration."
#Palestinains have been excluded by the #Israeli Military Government from representation or participation in spatial planning institutions and processes - capable of issuing building permits - by annulling planning committees, in violation of international law #IHL.
On the other hand, settlers unlawfully transferred to occupied #Palestinian territory by the Government of #Israel have been given autonomous planning powers to see their settlements expand, through 20 local and regional planning committees.
@NRC_Norway commissioned Dr. Théo Boutruche and Professor Marco Sassòli to assess the legal obligation of the Occupying Power, imposed by the IHL norms, not to make changes to local legislation other than those that benefit the local population nrc.no/globalassets/p…
In disregard of the peremptory norms of international law, #Israel aims at acquiring #Palestinian territory by force, undermining the possibility of a politically independent and territorially contagious Palestine.
Successive Israeli governments - including the current - have implanted the spatial plan laid down in 1978 by the little-known Israeli politician Matityahu Drobless (Likud), aimed at annexing wide expanses of the West Bank.
In 1981, @UNISPAL Chair noted that 'perusal of this document leaves one in no doubt of Israel's intention to annex the Arab territories it has illegally occupied [...]
[...] The report speaks also of lands being seized right away for the purpose of establishing settlements and cutting off the Arab population in order to make it difficult for it to form a territorial and political continuity.'
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