By: Abdulla Al Hamarna
The
appropriation of Palestinian land is considered one of the most serious Israeli
violations of the rights and lands of Palestinian citizens. The Israeli
occupation considers the seizure of Palestinian lands in the city of Jerusalem
a general strategy on which most Israeli parties agree.
Israel
justifies its confiscation of Palestinian lands with various pretexts and
justifications, the most common of which is declaring the confiscated lands as
state land and military zones.
Most
of the land confiscations take place in order to expand settlements, construct
bypass roads that connect settlements with each other and with Israel, expand
existing streets, establish public projects, and establish public facilities to
provide services to settlements and settlers.
The
Israeli policy of land confiscation and settlement has not stopped since the
signing of the Oslo Accords, and the successive Israeli occupation governments
accelerated the pace of land confiscation and settlement building, and ignored
the settlers’ continuous actions by seizing lands near settlements.
The
settlers took initiatives that included expanding the settlements by removing
the fence surrounding the city of Jerusalem and placing their hands on the
lands adjacent to their settlements.
International
humanitarian law affirms the illegality of appropriating lands and building
settlements on them within the framework of the legal texts contained. In the
Hague Convention of 1907, where Article 46 states (the occupying country may
not confiscate private property), and Article 55 states that (the occupying
state It is considered as the administrator of the land in the occupied country
and it must treat the property of the country as private property).
In
the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, where Article 49 states that (the
occupying power has no right to transfer its citizens to the territories it
occupies, or to take any measure that leads to demographic change therein), and
Article 53 states that (the occupying forces have no right to destroy
individual personal property). or collective ownership or ownership of
individuals or the state or belonging to any authority of the occupied
country.”
The
resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United
Nations condemned the Israeli occupation policies in all its forms in the
occupied Palestinian territories, including the confiscation of Palestinian
lands for various military purposes, the construction of Israeli settlements,
the construction of bypass roads, and others.
The
political process and the agreements that accompanied it did not lead to an end
to the confiscation of lands and the cessation of settlements. On the contrary,
the Israeli occupation state intensified the confiscation of new lands and
implemented previous expropriation decisions.
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