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Israeli Land Grab and Forced Population Transfer of Palestinians: a Handbook for Vulnerable Individuals and Communities ISRAELI LAND GRAB AND ISRAELI LAND GRAB AND FORCED POPULATION TRANSFORCEDFER OF PALEST POINPIANSULAT: ION TRANSFERA Handbook OF PALEST for INIANS Vulnerable Individuals and Communities A Handbook for Vulnerable Individuals and Communities BADIL بديــل Resource Center املركز الفلسطيني for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights ملصـادر حقـوق املواطنـة والﻻجئـيـن Bethlehem, Palestine June 2013 BADIL بديــل Resource Center املركز الفلسطيني for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights ملصـادر حقـوق املواطنـة والﻻجئـيـن Researchers: Amjad Alqasis and Nidal al Azza Research Team: Thayer Hastings, Manar Makhoul, Brona Higgins and Amaia Elorza Field Research Team: Wassim Ghantous, Halimeh Khatib, Dr. Bassam Abu Hashish and Ala’ Hilu Design and Layout: Atallah Salem Printing: Al-Ayyam Printing, Press, Publishing & Distribution Company 152 p. 24cm ISBN 978-9950-339-39-5 ISRAELI LAND GRAB AND FORCED POPULATION TRANSFER OF PALESTINIANS: A HANDBOOK FOR VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES / 1. Palestine 2. Israel 3. Forced Population Transfer 4. Land Confiscation 5. Restrictions on Use and Access of Land 6. Home Demolitions 7. Building Permits 8. Colonization 9. Occupied Palestinian Territory 10. Israeli Laws DS127.96.S4I87 2013 All rights reserved © BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights June 2013 Credit and Notations Many thanks to all interview partners who provided the foundation for this publication, in particular to Suhad Bishara, Nasrat Dakwar, Manal Hazzan-Abu Sinni, Quamar Mishirqi, Ekram Nicola and Mohammad Abu Remaileh for their insightful and essential guidance in putting together this handbook. We would also like to thank Gerry Liston for his contribution in providing the legal overview presented in the introduction and Rich Wiles for his assistance throughout the editing phase. Any quotation of up to 500 words may be used without permission provided that full attribution is given. Longer quotations, entire chapters or sections of this study may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in any retrieval system of any nature, without the express written permission of BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights. All legal information provided in this publication is intended as a general guide only and is not a substitute for seeking qualified legal advice from lawyers or organizations working in the field. BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights Karkafa St. (down the street from Bethlehem Hotel) PO Box 728, Bethlehem, West Bank; Palestine Tel.: +970-2-277-7086; Fax: +970-2-274-7346 Website: www.badil.org BADIL is an independent, community-based non-profit human rights organization mandated to defend and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. Our vision, missions, programs and relationships are defined by our Palestinian identity and the principles of international law, in particular international human rights law. We seek to advance the individual and collective rights of the Palestinian people on this basis. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ......................................................1 METHODOLOGY ................................................ 4 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ........................................ 5 CLOSING REMARKS ............................................ 20 Chapter One: Land Confiscation WEST BANK, AREA C ............................................... 25 CATEGORIES OF LAND .......................................... 26 LAND REGISTRATION ........................................... 31 LAND SEIZURE ................................................ 34 EAST JERUSALEM .................................................. 46 MASTER PLAN ................................................ 46 CONFISCATION FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES ............................... 47 ABSENTEE PROPERTY LAW ........................................50 Chapter Two: Restrictions on Use and Access WEST BANK, AREA C ................................................57 ANNEXATION WALL .............................................58 SEAM ZONES .................................................62 JORDAN VALLEY AND DEAD SEA ....................................64 CLOSED MILITARY ZONES ........................................66 NATURE RESERVES AND NATIONAL PARKS .............................70 COLONIES AND THE ‘PRIOR COORDINATION’ REGIME ......................73 EAST JERUSALEM .................................................. 74 NATIONAL PARKS, NATURE RESERVES, NATIONAL SITES, MEMORIAL SITES .... 76 GAZA STRIP ...................................................... 78 LAND-BUFFER ZONE ........................................... 79 NAVAL-BUFFER ZONE .......................................... 80 Chapter Three: Planning, Building Permits and Home Demolitions WEST BANK, AREA C ................................................86 PLANNING .................................................. 86 BUILDING PERMITS .............................................88 HOME DEMOLITIONS ............................................94 EAST JERUSALEM ................................................. 105 PLANNING...................................................105 BUILDING PERMITS ............................................109 HOME DEMOLITIONS .......................................... 113 GAZA STRIP ......................................................121 RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................... 123 BIBLIOGRAPHY .............................................. 127 ANNEX1: SELECTED LAWS ...........................................144 ANNEX2: SELECTED CASE LAW .......................................146 Introduction 1 INTRODUCTION “We are hoping that the Supreme Court won’t approve our displacement, although we know that for us Palestinians the Israeli High Court of Justice is a court of Injustice.” Interview with Nasser Nawaj’a in Susya, South Hebron Hills (15 February 2013) Forced Population Transfer is one of the most serious and grave breaches of human rights and international humanitarian law occurring in the occupied Palestinian territory. The forcible displacement of the Palestinian people amounts to a policy and practice of forcible transfer of Palestinians ongoing since the 1948 Nakba. According to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the former Commission on Human Rights: The essence of population transfer remains a systematic coercive and deliberate…movement of population into or out of an area…with the effect or purpose of altering the demographic composition of a territory, particularly when that ideology or policy asserts the dominance of a certain group over another.1 Forced population transfer is illegal and has constituted an international crime since the Allied Resolution on German War Crimes was adopted in 1942. The strongest and most recent codification of the crime is found in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which clearly defines forcible transfer of population and settler-implantation as war crimes.2 In order to achieve the forcible transfer of the indigenous Palestinian population many Israeli laws, policies and state practices have been developed and applied. Today, this forcible displacement is carried out by Israel in the form of a 'silent' transfer policy. The policy is silent in the sense that Israel applies it while attempting to avoid international attention and regularly displaces small numbers of people. The result is discrimination against Palestinians in areas including nationality, citizenship, residency rights and land ownership.3 Little attention is given to the forced population transfer of Palestinians from 1 A.S. al-Khawasneh and R. Hatano, The Human Rights Dimensions of Population Transfer Including the Implantation of Settlers, Preliminary Report Prepared for Commission on Human Rights Sub- Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Forty-fifth Session (August 2, 1993), 27–32. 2 Emily Haslam, ‘Unlawful Population Transfer and the Limits of International Criminal Law’, The Cambridge Law Journal 61, no. 1 (March 2002): 66–75. 3 See Amjad Alqasis, ‘The Ongoing Nakba -The Continuous Forcible Displacement Of The Palestinian People’, Al-Majdal Quarterly Magazine of BADIL, Autumn 2012. 2 Israeli Land Grab and Forced Population Transfer of Palestinians a legal point of view. Increased knowledge of the legal framework and possible remedies would be of high value to international and local NGOs, advocates, and the communities themselves. The Handbook is a first of its kind public research project on forced population transfer of Palestinians. In the proceeding chapters we will address the following topics: land confiscation, restrictions on access and usage of land, and planning, building permits and home demolitions. BADIL Resource Center is known for its advocacy for the rights of Palestinian refugees. Why would we be interested in publishing a Handbook providing legal advice for Palestinians who cannot obtain building permits in the West Bank, for example? The reason for this stems from our holistic understanding of the ongoing nature of the forcible displacement of Palestinians and complementing previous publications since BADIL was founded in 1998. The ongoing Nakba requires us not only to document and analyze past displacement of Palestinians, but we believe it is also our responsibility to identify the present forms and mechanisms of
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