Israel removing 42 Palestinians from their homes in Occupied Palestine

Israel has illegally ordered 42 Palestinians to leave their homes in Batn al-Hawa, East Jerusalem, by May 17, so it can hand the homes to Israeli terrorist settlers.

Half of the people Israel is illegally evicting are children.

“Reclamation” — for who?

Israel is handing the properties to the illegal settler group Ateret Cohanim. The entity claims to be:

[a] leading urban land reclamation organization in Jerusalem, which has been working for over 40 years to restore Jewish life in the heart of ancient Jerusalem.

Of course, in this context, restoring Jewish life means the theft of more Palestinian land and homes — illegal under international law.  Article 49 of the Geneva Convention prohibits:

Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory […] The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.

So not only is it illegal to forcibly evict Palestinians from their homes, but it is also illegal to then move Israeli’s into those homes.

Additionally, the Hague Regulations [1907] prohibit the seizure and destruction of private property. This means that both building and expanding settlements breach international humanitarian law.

Similarly, the Rome Statute states that the forcible expulsion of a population is both a war crime and a crime against humanity.

As the International Committee of the Red Cross said, the occupying power:

has a duty to ensure the protection, security, and welfare of the people living under occupation and to guarantee that they can live as normal a life as possible, in accordance with their own laws, culture, and traditions.

Not the first time

Israel issued a similar evacuation order in February, which evicted 80 individuals in the same neighbourhood. The properties went to the same illegal group. Illegal settlers evicted 11 of the 15 families by force.

So far, Israel has forcibly and illegally removed 37 families from the neighbourhood since 2015. This amounts to hundreds of people.

Ethnic cleansing

Israel is the modern day Nazi state. Just like the Nazi’s did to Jews in Europe during World War 2, Israel is forcibly expelling Palestinians from their land.

There is a word for forcibly expelling people from their homes…

Yet, where is the Western media outrage? Where are the politicians calling out the war crimes?

Two jews are stabbed in London, and understandably, the whole world is up in arms. Yet Jewish supremacists in Israel commit crimes like this every single day without fail, and there isn’t a single whimper from the mainstream media or politicians.

Israel is committing war crime after war crime, and let’s not pretend that stealing all of Palestine was not its plan all along.

Feature image via silwanic/YouTube

By HG

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