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In 2006, the newspaper The Independant wrote about the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Palestine broght on by Israel and Israles "Secret War" to eliminate the population.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israels-secret-war-the-humanitarian-disaster-unfolding-in-palestine-409654.html

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UN Resolutions against Israel

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.politics/2005-09/msg02534.html

http://www.jatonyc.org/UNresolutions.html

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in 2002 the UN called for an end

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0312-08.htm

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The Association for Civil Rights in Israel

http://www.acri.org.il/eng/ZruKesher.aspx

Human Rights and International Law

Human rights are recognized under international law as universal rights to which each and every person is entitled. The significance of this recognition is that human rights lie above and beyond any particular nation's laws or control. A demand that a country refrain from violating human rights, therefore, cannot be considered intervention in the internal affairs of that country.

The Geneva Convention and Human Rights as well as International Law:

The Geneva Conventions and other international tractates recognize that land a) conquered in the course of a war; and b) the disposition of which is unresolved through subsequent peace treaties is "occupied" and subject to international laws of war and international humanitarian law. This includes special protection of individuals in those territories, limitations on the use of land in those territories, and access by international relief agencies.

The international consensus, excepting the U.S. in some cases, is that

• The annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem are illegal and not recognized by international law 12 13

• The West Bank and Gaza are "occupied," because:

          o They were captured by force of arms and against the will of their populations.

          o The residents in these areas were stateless.

          o Israel has put the territories under military rather than civilian administration, creating a de facto state of occupation. 14

• Non-Jewish residents who reject Israeli citizenship and/or hegemony have the right to self-determination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law_and_the_Arab-Israeli_conflict

Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states in paragraph 1, 4

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/geneva07.htm

Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.

and states in paragraph 6,

The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.

Supporting this is: Intenational Committee of the Red Cross, The INternational Court of Justice, INternational Criminal Court Rome Statute (see above cite in wiki)

further cites: http://www.diakonia.se/ihl

freedom of movement........israel splits up terortories to appease settlers:

barredf rom beach

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinians-barred-from-dead-sea-beaches-to-appease-israeli-settlers-846948.html

Most of the human rights violations in the Occupied Territories are byproducts of the establishment of settlements and outposts.http://www.acri.org.il/eng/story.aspx?id=560

secret evidence

as of April 2008, 790 Palestinians were being held in administrative detention. Most of the information provided to the military judges concerning the reasons for detention is classified, and the judges generally refuse the defense counsel’s request that the classified material be provided to them. Thus, the detainee and his or her lawyer have no access to this information, and thereby no effective means of mounting a substantive defense against a potentially arbitrary and indefinite deprivation of the detainee’s liberty.http://www.acri.org.il/eng/story.aspx?id=498

settler violence

when it comes to protecting the safety of Palestinians who are subjected to attacks by Israeli settlers, the Israeli law enforcement authorities consistently refrain from employing many of the methods and tools at their disposal – methods which they do use in their efforts to protect Israelis. Moreover, in many instances, the only “response” to incidents of settler violence against Palestinians and their property by the authorities is to employ measures that restrict and harm the Palestinian population itself – the victims of the violence – rather than take any action against the perpetrators.

http://www.acri.org.il/eng/Story.aspx?id=347

The barrier/fence/wall

Palestinians have been cut off from their agricultural lands, places of employment, schools, essential services, and social support networks.

myriad human rights violations caused by various sections of the Barrier; we also demonstrated in a number of petitions that the route was not determined by security considerations but by unlawful considerations including settlement expansion. http://www.acri.org.il/eng/story.aspx?id=552

International law and the barrier:

http://www.acri.org.il/eng/Story.aspx?id=496

Humanitarian Efforts and the punishment of such in DIRECT violation of Internatioanl law, pub Dec 1,2008

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/un-accuses-israel-of-punishing-aid-workers-1043960.html

also there:

Karen AbuZayd, who is based in Gaza City, said that Israeli authorities have within the past month stopped UN staff based in Gaza from using the diplomatic pouch. They gave no reason for the move, which is a clear breach of international law.

also:

Several weeks ago the Israelis issued for the first time a written list of goods that cannot be sent into Gaza for UN humanitarian needs, she said. The list, which has baffled UN officials, includes spices, kitchenware, glassware, yarn and paper.

“They are punishing the international community that’s inside,” said Mrs AbuZayd. “For our own office, we are having trouble in keeping it going, because we’re not allowed to bring in spare parts,” she added. UN cars are lying idle for lack of tyres and oil, office photocopiers cannot be mended and computers are not allowed into Gaza. “And we’re supposed to have privileges and immunities,” she added.

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“Israel’s rightful self-defense against unlawful rocket attacks does not justify a blockade that denies civilians the food, fuel and medicine needed to survive, a policy amounting to collective punishment,” said Joe Stork, acting director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East division. “Gazans can’t turn on the lights, get tap water, buy enough food, or earn a living without Israel’s consent.” http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/01/25/israelgaza-israeli-blockade-unlawful-despite-gaza-border-breach

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I have made clear that I am against this collective punishment of the people of Gaza

Benita Ferrero-Waldner,

EU External Relations Commissioner

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7201061.stm

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In December of 2006, Israel blocked the South African Archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu from investigating the killing of nineteen Palestinians in Gaza. He had a UN mandate to head a fact-finding mission to Gaza.

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The United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay has accused Israel of “unprecedented and deeply regrettable” treatment of UN human rights investigator Richard Falk. Falk was deported from Israel Monday after being detained at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport for twenty hours. Falk’s detention and expulsion came days after he condemned Israel’s blockade of Gaza as a “flagrant and massive violation of international humanitarian law” and “Crime Against Humanity.”

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/17/days_after_calling_israeli_blockade_of

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