Transcript Palestine in Maps

Palestinian Refugees and
IDPs
Al Nakba and Ongoing Nakba
Al Nakba is Ongoing Nakba
The Necessity to Review Israel
Nature, the Root causes and
International Responsibilities
Israel is a regime of a colonizing power
under the guise of occupation which
includes many of the worst features of
apartheid,
UN Special Rapporteur, Prof. John Dugard: Human Rights Situation in
Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories
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Historic Palestine
1917: Jewish- owned land 3-4 %
Jews were 7% of the entire population
Creation of the Protracted Conflict
1- Establishment of Zionist movement as
part of the international colonial
movement
2- The Western Colonial Movement in
the Middle East:
- Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916
- Balfour Declaration (1917)
- British Mandate (1917-1948)
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3- UN General Assembly Resolution #
181 Partition Plan
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4- Creation of the state of Israel
The Roots of The Conflict
Palestine from 1917- 1947
British Mandate policy: 1917-1948
-Facilitating Jewish immigration and
settlement in Palestine (denationalize
Palestinians and legalize Jewish
immigrants),
- Facilitating land transfer to Jewish/
Zionist Agencies,
- Oppressing Palestinians uprising
and closing eyes or encouraging
undergrounds Zionist Militia Urgon,
Haganah and others
-Early Withdrawal
1947: Jewish owned- land was
8%
Jews became 32% of the entire
population.
Partition Plan
Division of Mandate/
Historic Palestine:
56% for a Jewish State
although they owned only
8% and were approximately
one third of the entire
population.
43 % for Arab State
1% for Jerusalem and
Bethlehem to be managed
and administered by special
international system
Creation of the state of
Israel = AL NAKBA
(Catastrophe)
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1948 war: 78% under the Israeli Control
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22% divided into West Bank controlled by
Jordan, and Gaza Strip administered by
Egypt.
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More than 750,000 Palestinians were
displaced and became Refugees
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More than 35,000 Palestinians Became
internally Displaced persons in Israel.
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532 Villages and towns were destroyed
partially or entirely.
Lands Occupied
by Israel in1967
War
• Israel occupied Sinai, Golan
Heights and entire
Palestine (OPT),
• New wave of Palestinian
refugees, about 400,000
Refugees,
• Israel announced United
Jerusalem as its Capital
• Israel controlled over nature
resources and imposed
Restrictions on economic
development
Ongoing Nakba
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Construction of Israeli – Jewish Settlements
Control over all resource
Enacting of Laws enabling it to confiscate Palestinian owned land 3,250 km out of
5,800 km in West Bank,
• Demolition of more than 18,000 houses from 1967-2007
• 25% of Palestinians living in Palestine were arrested
• Discriminatory policies against Palestinians living inside Israel, and those in West
Bank
Examples:
• prevention of Refugees and IDPs from return, restitution, compensation, (laws and
Judgments)
• Unrecognized villages
• The Wall and its Associated regime (segregation),
• Permits: work permits, housing permits, traveling permits, cultivation permits…etc)
• Checkpoints and Closure areas and measures, restriction on movements
• Denial of Family Reunification,
• Arbitrary torture and arrests, demolition of houses, assassination, or extrajudicial
killing and The list is long…
Ongoing Nakba is an institutionalized Nakb a completion of what started in 1948: the
ethnic cleansing process / displacement and dispossession of Palestinians,
depopulation of the Palestinian communities, confiscation of Land and prevention
Palestinians from exercising their rights
Bypass Roads
Israeli Bypass roads is about 800 Km
about 3 % of historic Palestine
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To ease the construction of Settlements
The Israeli bypass roads in the Palestinian Territory
were erected to ease the construction of the
illegal Israeli settlements of the West Bank
• To limit the development of Palestine
was planned and paid by the Israeli
Governorate, aiming to limit any kind of
construction and development in the
Palestinian communities
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To Prevent the establishment of
Palestinian state
bypass roads in the occupied Palestinian
territory as a part of its policy to coerce
facts on the ground; ultimately affecting
the outcome of negotiation with the
Palestinians; including the establishment
of a viable contiguous Palestinian State
Future Palestinian
promised State
The best Israeli offer was:
- 93% of the West Bank cut off
by settlements and bypass
roads
- Excluding Jerusalem (Israeli
sovereignty)
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87 settlements with 35% of
settlers (there are about
250,000 settlers in West
Bank and 200.000 in
Jerusalem)
3% in exchange of the 7%
The Wall
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More than 700 Km in
length
• 54% of the West Bank will
remain after the wall (Less
than 12 % of Historic
Palestine
• 85% of the Water wells
and resources are
controlled by Israel
Palestinian affected directly
by the wall
• More than 160,000 of
Palestinians are Isolated in
cantons behind the wall
• About 200,000 are
separated from the
cultivated land
115,000 Palestinians
have been displaced
as a result of the wall
Refugees and IDP Population in
2006-07
• All Palestinians (10.1 millions) are stateless.
70% of the Palestinian population is either
refugee or IDP.
• In 2007, there are 7 millions Palestinian
refugees (6 millions 1948 Palestinian refugees
and 1 million 1967 Palestinian refugees).
• In 2006, there were 450,000 Palestinian IDPs
(325,000 IDPs in Israel and 115,000 IDPs in the
occupied Palestinian territory).
Protection gap
• There is no UN Agency currently providing
protection, in particular, searching for durable
solutions for Palestinian refugees and IDPs.
• UN Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) → mandate to
provide assistance to Palestinian refugees in its area of
operations (OPT, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon).
• UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP) →
mandate to protect Palestinian refugees but Agency is
no longer active.
• UNHCR → mandate to protect and assist Palestinian
refugees outside UNRWA's areas of operations. Not
actively searching for durable solutions however.
Review of Israel Nature
• Israel’s Regime over Palestinians is Unique; it is
a combination of Apartheid, colonialism and
occupation
• As Occupying Power Israel has been
transferring indigenous people to settle Jewish
Zionists
• As colonial state Israel has been working on
changing the demographic nature of the land for
the benefit of Jewish communities
• As apartheid Israel has institutionalized
discrimination and segregation, (Laws, policies
and practices).
The Best Solution
• Ending the occupation,
• Ending the discriminatory policies against Palestinians
• Enabling refugees to exercise their right to return,
restitution, and compensation based on GA Resolution
194 and SC Resolution 237.
The two State solution is not viable anymore
The best way is:
The establishment of the one democratic secular state for
entire its people irrespective of their religion, race,
ethnic...or any basis of discrimination.