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May 8, 2023 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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BREAKING: #Israel's 2023 (top up)-2024 "special budget allocation" (beyond the regular state budget): 75 million ILS (20 million USD) to forcibly transfer #Palestinians from Area C of the West Bank (e.g., by destroying humanitarian aid), and 404 million ILS (111 million USD)… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Furthering the annexation of occupied #Palestinian territory on February 23' with the transfer of powers to Israel's civil government, the allocations are to the Ministry of National Missions, headed by Orit Strook (Religion Zionism - Jewish Power). Image
In practice, #Israeli settlers - through regional and local councils - will be tasked and equipped to "search and destroy" #Palestinian property and humanitarian assistance they accepted. Image
To fully understand how the current #Israeli government weaponizes settlement councils to forcibly transfer #Palestinians from Area C () we must go back to their inception, beginning with the 1970 Allon Plan, outlining parts of the West Bank to be annexed… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
In 1978, Matityahu Drobless gave the settlement cluster approach effect in his plan, which to this day serves as the "master plan" for the establishment - in breach of peremptory norms of international law - settlements, settlements outpost, and satellite neighborhoods, within a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
42 years later, in July 2020, the Israeli military commander addressed the Israeli parliament and reflected on the priorities for the destruction of Palestinian property and humanitarian aid provided to them in Area C, and their eventual forcible transfer following the Drobless… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
The 6 settlement regional councils, whose representatives are seen here in a recent picture with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Minister of Justice Levin, have extended their powers beyond Area C to control the entirety of the West Bank including those areas allocated to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… ImageImage
Their political vision goes well beyond the proliferation of settlements, toward the annexation in full of the West Bank to Israel. Image
And it does not stop there, the "area separated and closed to Jewish settlement" - which today forms Jordan - is within sight of future acquisition. Image

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Sep 27
There is a cynical political calculus behind #Israeli rejection of ceasefire arrangements in #Gaza and #Lebanon. A short thread on how the adoption of Israel's State Budget and #USElection2024 fate these efforts to deescalate: Image
1/5 Israeli constitutional law provides that a State Budget is tabled by 31 October 24', and approved by 31 March 25', or else the government defaults to general elections. Netanyahu and his coalition partners push for a biannual budget to ensure long-term political survival.
2/5 The lynchpins of budget approval are Bezalel Smotirch (Religious Zionism) and Itamar Ben-Gvir (Jewish Power). The budget that they would approve would grant financial support to an open-ended war in Gaza and Lebanon and the colonization of occupied #Palestinian territory. Image
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Sep 12
BREAKING: The Government of #Israel submits to the High Court of Justice that after 11 months of - debilitating and atrocious war in #Gaza - it has not accomplished 'effective control' in any part of Gaza, has not displaced any of Hamas's governmental functions, and is therefore not the occupying power (with commensurate obligations under #IHL).Image
Facts described are either an admission of a colossal military failure that has cost the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the wanton destruction of Gaza, or entirely false. As the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ ruled in July: before October 23' and even more so since, Israel had effective control of Gaza.Image
Israel, according to the ICJ decision, has obligations as the occupant of Gaza commensurate with its effective control. Irrespective of any decision by the Israeli constitutional court, it cannot invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform its obligations under international humanitarian law.Image
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Sep 3
Last night #Israel's #Netanyahu showcases a map outlining the annexation of the occupied #WestBank, and a similar fate awaiting #Gaza. The @CIJ_ICJ determined Israel's presence in #Palestinian territory to be unlawful, an act of aggression that must end. Israel must be induced to comply.Image
The assertion that #Israel will maintain alien rule over #Palestinians is matched by an inflammatory battle cry on settlers' social media, targeting the few Israelis in solidarity with Palestinians: "On the path to expel or annihilate all enemies, foreign and domestic." Image
This is the #Israeli 'Partition Plan' for #Gaza: 1/3. Gaza City (in yellow) will be left in ruins and uninhibited, to its north permanently acquired territory settled by Israel, to its south the Netzarim Corridor, an impassable barrier and "humanitarian hub." Image
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Aug 26
Does #Israel issue 'evacuation orders' to #Palestinians in #Gaza? It does not. What it does is forcibly transfer them, in grave breach of #IHL. A thread to explain the factual and legal inappropriateness of using the term 'evacuation' with respect to Israeli conduct. Image
1/5 Art. 49 (1) of the Fourth Geneva Convention provides that:
"Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory (...) are prohibited, regardless of their motive."
2/5 The prohibition on forcible transfer is absolute. It has no exception, save those that are included in Article 49 (2) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, being temporary evacuations intended to protect the displaced persons themselves at the time of hostilities.
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Aug 18
BREAKING: This afternoon, Bezalel Smotrich - the Minister overseeing #Israel's unlawful occupation of #Palestinian territory - visited the outskirts of Bethlehem, vowing to bring an unprecedented wave of demolitions upon Palestinian homes, livelihoods and donor-funded humanitarian aid.Image
In its recent Advisory Opinion, the International Court of Justice @CIJ_ICJ determined that #Israel’s planning policy in relation to the issuance of building permits, and in particular its practice of property demolition for lack of a building permit to be in serious breach of international law, and inate to its continued unlawful presence in #Palestinian territory.Image
The Court concluded that all states are under an OBLIGATION not to recognize as lawful, aid or assist #Israel's unlawful presence and consider action required to "bring to an end as rapidly as possible the unlawful presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied #Palestinian Territory."
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Aug 15
Settler violence against #Palestinains is attributable to the State of #Israel and its central and local government: 1. Settler violence is instructed, directed, and controlled by the state. 2. Settler violence is committed by persons exercising government authority. 3. Settler violence is aided and supported by State organs, including Ministries, regional and local settlement councils.Image
The law of State responsibility for internationally wrongful acts attributable to it allows the international community as a whole to employ lawful countermeasures to ensure Israeli compliance with peremptory norms of international law, seriously and systematically breached through settler violence.
The adequate response to the upsurge of settler violence, including the deadly incident tonight, is to subject Israeli ministries and the ministers who head them, and local government and heads of regional and local settlement councils to financial restrictions and travel bans.
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