On this day in 1967, the Israeli Army occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, claiming emergency powers with a military decree that greatly restricts the rights of the occupied. The ongoing occupation is the longest in the modern era.

The Israeli Army action took place in the context of the Six Day War, fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states. The status of the West Bank as a militarily occupied territory has been affirmed by the International Court of Justice and, with the exception of East Jerusalem, by the Israeli Supreme Court.

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the military proclamation issued by the Israeli Army on June 7th, 1967 permitted the application of the Defense (Emergency) Regulations of 1945.

These regulations empowered, and continue to empower, authorities to declare as an “unlawful association” groups that advocate for “bringing into hatred or contempt, or the exciting of disaffection against” the authorities, and criminalize membership in or possession of material belonging to or affiliated, even indirectly, with these groups.

HRW goes on to state that these and other broad restrictions on the occupied population violate international law: “The Israeli army has for over 50 years used broadly worded military orders to arrest Palestinian journalists, activists and others for their speech and activities - much of it non-violent - protesting, criticizing or opposing Israeli policies. These orders are written so broadly that they violate the obligation of states under international human rights law to clearly spell out conduct that could result in criminal sanction.”

Following the military occupation of the West Bank, Israel began expropriating the land and facilitating Israeli settlements in the area, broadly considered a violation of international law. While Israelis in the West Bank are subject to Israeli law and given representation in the Israeli Knesset, Palestinian civilians, mostly confined to scattered enclaves, are subject to martial law and are not permitted to vote in Israel’s national elections.

This two-tiered system has inspired comparisons to apartheid, likening the dense disconnected pockets that Palestinians are relegated to with the segregated Bantustans that previously existed in South Africa when the country was still under white supremacist rule.

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    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I’m learning that it super is. God bless this dude’s heart tho, he just likes rocks a lot and is now a line cook cause he didn’t wanna do oil company bullshit. I do think maybe there were just no more evil geologist jobs around and he justified it thst way, but same result. It’s weird how super specific to geology in the most abstract STEM sense that it’s taught. I remember early on asking who his favorite geologist was and he didn’t have a name, there is no romance to it and no interdisciplinary awareness at all, if it ain’t a rock that has been untouched by MAN they don’t care. The entire philosophy behind the study is based on extraction, rocks that humans have moved or whatever don’t even count cause they aren’t really interested in the history of rocks but how they can be exploited. There are pretty obvious cases of things deemed unimportant to the field because it has nothing to do with mineral extraction. My ass is self taught and I know wasaaay more about how the non rocks of the earth interact with rocks than the rock expert. He did teach me that water is technically Lava and ice is a rock tho.