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[ISRAEL DETAINS CHILDREN PART II]

Israel claims that they are in compliance with international humanitarian laws and have a just legal system when what we are seeing is clearly otherwise. If Israel refuses to comply with international laws, why are they not complying with their own laws?

What happened : 

Israel detains a 7 year old boy during it’s military raids on the first day of Eid al-Adha on 16th June 2024 from his home at Ramallah, the West Bank.

What Israeli Law says : 

Children under the age of 12 is not criminally responsible

We wish to reiterate that Israel has no jurisdiction over the West Bank. This is per the UN Resolution 1947 and 1967 in which Israel’s Declaration of Establishment 1948 promised to be faithful to the UN. 

Israel must withdraw and not impose their laws on Al-Quds and the West Bank to be compliant with their own Declaration of Establishment 1948.

[ISRAEL HAS NO LEGAL BASIS TO WITHHOLD CORPSES]

Israel is more than determined to collectively punish Palestinians even on a law that no longer exists or a law that has no legal jurisdiction on them. On top of that, the law relied on is not even faithfully adhered to by Israel.

What does Israeli Law say?

Israel’s favourite oppressive law Regulation 133(3) of the Defense Emergency Regulations 1945 states that :

it only applies to a person that has been lawfully convicted of a serious crime that warrants execution

The person has been legally executed in prison and;

The person MUST be buried in their own community

If Israel actually respect their own law, they would give a fine reading of the said provision. Nowhere in this the Emergency Regulations give power to withhold any dead bodies especially on civilians. 

We will continue calling out Israel’s blatant misuse and abuse of the law in oppressing Palestinians.

KEEPING DEAD BODIES SINCE 1967

Israel has been keeping dead bodies of Palestinians  for more than 57 years dating back to 1967 . When it comes to Palestinians, Israel adopts a policy to oppress all equally. 

The dead, regardless of whether they had been charged or found guilty of any offence by Israel’s own Courts are not returned to their families. 

The dead are either kept in freezers or buried in military cemeteries. In a further cruel move to humiliate the Palestinian community, Israel does not even bother to mark the graves of the dead.

Families claiming dead bodies of their relatives have to do DNA tests to identify the deceased due to Israel’s deliberate negligence and lack of human compassion.

We remain steadfast to continuously call out Israel’s blatant disrespect to any laws including their own. A Policy of oppression will not be able to defeat the truth that is upheld by the law. What Israel has been doing since its foundation is using all means including distortion and misuse of the law to enable oppression.

The New Arab

Israeli settlers evict last two families from West Bank village

Israeli settlers have forced the last two Palestinian families out of the West Bank village of ‘Ein Samia, marking the end of Palestinian pr

Israeli settlers have forced the last two Palestinian families out of the West Bank village of ‘Ein Samia, marking the end of Palestinian presence.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, a settlement tracking group said Wednesday, a move that is likely to worsen already soaring tensions linked to the war in Gaza.

Israel’s aggressive expansion in the West Bank reflects the settler community’s strong influence in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the most religious and nationalist in the country’s history. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a settler himself, has turbocharged the policy of expansion, seizing new authorities over settlement development and saying he aims to solidify Israel’s hold on the territory and prevent the creation of a Palestinian state.

Authorities recently approved the appropriation of 12.7 square kilometers (nearly 5 square miles) of land in the Jordan Valley, according to a copy of the order obtained by The Associated Press. Data from Peace Now, the tracking group, indicate it was the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo accords at the start of the peace process.

Settlement monitors said the land grab connects Israeli settlements along a key corridor bordering Jordan, a move they said undermines the prospect of a contiguous Palestinian state.

U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric called it “a step in the wrong direction,” adding that “the direction we want to be heading is to find a negotiated two-state solution.”

The newly seized land is in an area of the West Bank where, even before the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, settler violence was displacing communities of Palestinians. That violence has only surged since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack ignited the war in Gaza. Settlers have carried out more than 1,000 attacks on Palestinians since October in the West Bank, causing deaths and damaging property, according to the U.N.

The land seizure, which was approved late last month but only publicized on Wednesday, comes after the seizure of 8 square kilometers (roughly 3 square miles) of land in the West Bank in March and 2.6 square kilometers (1 square mile) in February.

That makes 2024 by far the peak year for Israeli land seizure in the West Bank, Peace Now said.

By declaring them state lands, the government opens them up to being leased to Israelis and prohibits private Palestinian ownership.

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