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| | Palestinian territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Third, the Palestinians argue that their claims to the land would be much more amenable were it not for Israel's establishing of "facts on the ground" since 1967, which included land confiscation and building of Jewish settlements or separation barriers on land previously owned by Palestinians and making these lands off-limits to them. | | | ("Possession is nine-tenths of the law") The Palestinians counter this claim by saying that Israel is controlling the territories unjustly by denying its residents the right to self-determination, and some deny the validity of the Israeli nation entirely. | | | The term "Palestinian territory" is often avoided for political reasons by supporters of Israel and other Zionists — centrally that Israel naturally does not want to unilaterally compromise its own interests by politically legitimizing any Palestinian claims to land within the boundaries of Israel. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_territories
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| | Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Israel, The Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Palestinian Authority ... |
| | Palestinians passing through Israeli checkpoints were frequently subjected to harassment, physical abuse, and even torture by Israeli soldiers and police. | | | Palestinians faced widespread discrimination in employment, while foreign workers were especially vulnerable to exploitation by employers and labor contractors. | | | An unusually large number of Palestinians were present at the mosque to protest a visit the previous day by Knesset Member Ariel Sharon, interpreted by many as an assertion of Israeli sovereignty over the area. |
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http://www.hrw.org/wr2k1/mideast/israel.html
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| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Country Update: The Palestinian Territories |
| | The Israeli government stated that the objectives of operations in the Palestinian Territories were to arrest or kill Palestinian militants and seize their weapons. | | | Several Palestinian and Israeli NGOs are active in researching and publicizing the Israeli policy of house demolitions. | | | Palestinians residing in border areas, areas identified by Israel as security zones, and areas targeted for Jewish colonies have been displaced in order to prevent the establishment of contiguous Palestinian built-up areas, and to create territorial contiguity between Jewish colonies and link them to the territory of Israel (BADIL November 2002). |
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http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/377a8dc37d82f4fec1256d9400334607?OpenDocument
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Country profiles Country profile: Israel and Palestinian territories |
| | Palestinian media outlets were badly damaged by Israeli military operations in the wake of the second intifada. | | | Former Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, the candidate of the Fatah faction, won the January 2005 poll to replace the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. | | | Mr Abbas established contacts with left-wing Israelis in the 1970s, and was the main Palestinian architect of the 1993 Oslo accords, which led to the foundation of the Palestinian Authority. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/803257.stm
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| | Center for Economic and Social Rights Occupied Palestinian Territories |
| | In November 1998, CESR and its partner Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations submitted two reports, Israeli Jurisdiction in Palestinian territories and Israeli Violations of Palestinian Human Rights to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. | | | Palestinians have been faced with a form of double repression - both from Israel and from their own nascent government. | | | In the spring of 2003, CESR partnered with Palestinian environmental NGOs to document violations of the human right to water in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza and presented a report to the U.N. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. |
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http://cesr.org/palestine
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| | PCHR Weekly Reoprt |
| | Following the attack, IOF claimed that they targeted a number of members of the Palestinian resistance, but preliminary investigations conducted by PCHR refute this claim as all victims of the attack were children working on their agricultural land. | | | Palestinian medical crews faced extreme difficulties in reaching the affected areas due to the indiscriminate shelling by Israeli troops. | | | This week, IOF at stable military checkpoints around the city imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians, contrary to Israeli claims regarding facilitations of movement on the eve of the Palestinian presidential election. |
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http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2005/06-01-2005.htm
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| | Remarks With Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas After Their Meeting |
| | President, you have been able to attain a cease-fire agreement by the Palestinian factions, and you have repeatedly confirmed during you election campaign the need to stop the militarization of intifada and on the Palestinian’s willingness to participate in the political process with the Israelis. | | | I do believe it’s most important that the Israelis and the Palestinians have security cooperation that is bilateral, that is strong, that is robust, that is dealing with most of the problems. | | | This is a time of hope, a time when we can hope for a better day for the Palestinian and the Israeli people both. |
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http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/41934.htm
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| | Human Rights in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: New World Outlook, September/October 1999 Issue on ... |
| | Various pretexts are used by the Israelis to confiscate Palestinian land. | | | At the end of April, LAW--the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment--reported that, since the signing of the Wye Memorandum, an estimated 6847 acres of land had been confiscated, of which 3787 acres were seized in the first three months of 1999. | | | Then they claim that the Palestinians have not been farming the land, ignoring the fact that Jewish settlers have not farmed the land for 2000 years. |
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http://gbgm-umc.org/nwo/99so/israel.html
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| | Palestinian Descent into Chaos - article by Daniel Pipes |
| | Cox News Service notes that, "as the disorder spreads, Palestinian intellectuals and politicians are increasingly looking past Israel as the usual scapegoat and admitting they share a part of the blame." National Public Radio quotes a Palestinian saying that the PA is in trouble "because many people are being killed or kidnapped or robbed. | | | As explained by the Washington Post, "the Palestinian Authority is broke, politically fractured, riddled with corruption, unable to provide security for its own people and seemingly unwilling to crack down on terrorist attacks against Israel." One unnamed Fatah member estimates that 90 percent of gang activity is carried out by Palestinian Authority employees. | | | But to emerge from their political predicament requires Palestinians coming to terms with the existence of the Jewish state of Israel. |
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http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1965
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| | Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine / Israel |
| | He wants the utter military obliteration of the Palestinians; indeed, from the Muslim world, his racism is about as blatant as that of the Holocaust denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. | | | But now that the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections of January 25th, 2006, are over, we can officially turn off the lights on the agreement that, along with the first U.S. invasion of Iraq in 1991, has led to, arguably, the most difficult period in the modern history of Palestinian and Arab World politics. | | | A young Palestinian man with learning disabilities has been shot dead by Israeli troops near the West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian officials said. |
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http://www.vtjp.org
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| | Democracy and elections in the Palestinian territories |
| | Henry Lowi likens the upcoming Palestinian elections to prisoners electing representatives to interact with the prison administration over the conditions of their incarceration and outlines the role of Israeli and Palestinian peace activists and democrats in this "election" period. | | | Palestinian prisoners and former prisoners have rich experience in such prisoner elections. | | | Israeli Jewish peace activists and democrats have a democratic duty to remove the undemocratic burden of oppression from the Palestinian Arabs, and to create conditions where all Palestinians can freely exercise their right to self-determination. |
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http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/hlowi3.htm
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| | "Occupied Territories or Disputed Territories?" |
| | It also serves the current Palestinian effort to obtain international affirmation of Palestinian claims and a total denial of Israel's fundamental rights in every international forum. | | | Moreover, these rights were preserved under the United Nations as well, according to Article 80 of the UN Charter, despite the termination of the League of Nations in 1946. | | | Taken together with UN Security Council Resolution 338, it became clear that only negotiations would determine which portion of these territories would eventually become "Israeli territories" or territories to be retained by Israel's Arab counterpart. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/art/brief1-1.htm
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| | Israel/Occupied Terr.: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns |
| | In addition, Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation in The West Bank and Gaza Strip are subject to a wide range of human rights violations. | | | Israel/Occupied Territories: Amnesty International condemns killing of Palestinians by Israeli settler, calls for urgent measures to end settlers' impunity | | | The Israeli government continues to use Caterpillar bulldozers, often illegally, to destroy hundreds of family's homes and possessions, in support of Israel's overall policy of forced eviction and demolition of homes of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories and Israeli Arabs in Israel. |
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/israel_and_occupied_territories
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| | Population Resource Center |
| | While 28 percent of Israel’s population is under 15 years of age, almost half of the Palestinian population is under 15. | | | In 2020, the region will be home to about 6.4 million Jews and 8.5 million Arabs. | | | Unemployment in 2001 was extremely high in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (26%), while nine percent of Israelis were unemployed. |
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http://www.prcdc.org/summaries/palestineisrael/palestineisrael.html
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| | A Virtual Travel to the Palestinian territories Gaza and the West Bank - Destination Palestine |
| | Palestine is a member of the League of Arab States | | | Umbrella organization of the Palestinian business community, the site provides information about federations and chambers. | | | The DOP provides that Israel will retain responsibility during the transitional period for external security and for internal security and public order of settlements and Israeli citizens. |
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http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/palestine.htm
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| | ei: Palestinian rights still violated in occupied territories, UN official says |
| | With the caveat that his mandate does not extend to human rights violations committed by the Palestinian Authority, the Special Rapporteur also notes that five Palestinian prisoners were executed by the Authority in 2005. | | | There are some 8,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, "whose treatment is alleged to fall well below internationally accepted standards," according to the Rapporteur. | | | Development: Aid Agencies call upon donor governments to continue providing aid to the Palestinian people (14 February 2006) |
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http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4207.shtml
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