The families of Palestinians who are merely suspected of acting against Israel, or who reside where gunfire is suspected can be subjected to the punishment of house demolition. Palestinians denied building permits on land they already own, can have their homes demolished.
As a result, thousands of Palestinians have been left homeless.
Collective punishment is a violation of the 4th Geneva Convention.
Since the Oslo agreement, the Israeli government has built over 200 kilometers of by-pass roads inside the Occupied Territories. These roads Ñ built on appropriated land Ñ can be closed to Palestinian traffic. Their purpose is to connect Israeli settlements with Israel proper, allowing settlers to bypass Palestinian towns and villages, and to isolate Palestinian villages and towns from each other.
There are now 400,000 Israeli-Jewish settlers who live illegally on Palestinian land.
In addition, entire closures and sieges of Palestinian villages, towns, and cities have become an increasingly routine form of punishment. In the case of illness or child-birth, these checkpoints and closures are life-threatening. Women have given birth on the road or in their car, and people have died in ambulances and vehicles, waiting to get through the checkpoints or driving over back roads during the closures.
These checkpoints and closures violate the most basic of human rights.
They have no hope of getting out, or improving their lives, as long as the Occupation continues.
This use of U.S. supplied weapons against civilians is a violation of U.S. law.
Targeting civilians is a war crime under the 4th Geneva Convention.
The water table in the West Bank has become dangerously depleted, and
Israel continues to control the one resource around which all life revolves.
The Israeli military has appointed itself judge, jury and executioner.
Collective punishment is a violation of the 4th Geneva Convention.
"The Occupation is Killing Us All."
Only an end to the occupation can stop the bloodshed.
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