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13% of South Africa

Building the Palestinian Bantustans. 12% of Palestine. 13% of South Africa. The implementation of ethnic cleansing policies. Threatened villages in Qalqilya Expulsion from the Jordan Valley Expelling the Jahalin Bedouin The plan to Judaize Jersualem

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13% of South Africa

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  1. Building the Palestinian Bantustans 12% of Palestine 13% of South Africa

  2. The implementation of ethnic cleansing policies • Threatened villages in Qalqilya • Expulsion from the Jordan Valley • Expelling the Jahalin Bedouin • The plan to Judaize Jersualem • The economic projects: creating sustainable ghettoes

  3. Arab Abu Farda 2004, villagers are informed of plans to relocate them to the east of Nabi Ilias.

  4. In April 2004, the Occupation told Abu Amar they must leave their house to go to live in Jayyous or in Arab Ramadin.

  5. 5 June 2008 Arab Ramadin informed of a plan to relocate them to the other side of the Wall, to Izbet Al Tabib. 207 people with1,500 sheep will be expelled. 30 homes and animal pens will be destroyed In March 2008 homes for 10 people were bulldozed.

  6. Izbet al Tabib The people of the village have received documentation stating that they will be evicted to Azzun. Refused permission to build houses for its 217 inhabitants since 1991. 17 of the 40 houses in Izbat at Tabib have received demolition orders. A settler only road is to pass through the area.

  7. Nabi Ilias The Wall and Alfe Menashe are just meters away A settler only road cuts the village in half Village lives from car repairs but Palestinians from ’48 land are now barred from fixing their cars there End of June 2008, 35 garages raided and Israeli plated cars confiscated

  8. Entry permits to Ras Tira for 150 people who carry Ras Tira, ad-Dab’a, and Wadi ar-Rasha identity cards. These Palestinians are effectively barred from accessing their village, lands and homes.

  9. 8 communities will be ethnically cleansed Ethnic cleansing Area around Qalqilya city will be depopulated Qalqilya city surrounded by the settlements

  10. January 3 2007 The Israeli High Court rules that the village of al-Hadidiya is a ‘threat’ to the security of residents of Roi settlement

  11. 29 July 2008 The family’s water tank is confiscated

  12. 13 August 2008 Two homes are bulldozed

  13. Al Hadidiya bulldozed four times in the last year. 30 – 40 people suffering ongoing displacement. ► 13 August 2007 – 2 homes demolished ► 23 August 2007 – 2 houses and 5 barns destroyed, water tank confiscated ► 6 February 2008 – 4 homes destroyed ► 11 March 2008 – 4 homes destroyed

  14. From the Naqab to the rubbish dump 28,000 Bedouin in the West Bank hit by expulsion policies 7,500Jahalin Bedouin in Jerusalem and Jericho area Expelled from the Naqabafter 1948 the land they are living on declared ‘military zones’ their water resources declared ‘natural reserves’ sheep are confiscated and shepherds arrested

  15. 1996 – 400 Jahalin are transferred to a “concentration” next to the Jerusalem rubbish dump 1997 – 600 Jahalin resist transfer to the rubbish dump by staying without tents in the desert 1998 – a third community is evicted to the rubbish dump 2008 – 30 people lose their homes The Jahalin are now all in the “security zones” of the Wall and settlements =

  16. The Jerusalem Masterplan “seeking to maintain a ratio of 70% Jews and 30% Arabs” ► “planning policy that encourages the continuation of spatial segregation” ► for Jews: “new neighourhoods” at “reasonable prices” to encourage “inward migration” ► for Palestinians: “densification” of neighbourhoods and ‘rehabilitation’ of refugee camps

  17. The Jerusalem Masterplan Rehabilitating the refugee camp

  18. Implementing the masterplan Rapid expansion of settlements since Annapolis ►440tenders for new construction ► 3,762 housing units currently being built ►11,179 housing units confirmed ►Plans for 40,000 units over the next decade approved

  19. Implementing the masterplan Rapid expansion of infrastructure ►East Jerusalem Ring Road ►Jerusalem Light Rail

  20. Implementing the masterplan Restrictions on Palestinian construction through land confiscation and home demolition ► Home demolition ► 3,166 dunums of Palestinian land seized since January ► 1,237 dunums to be confiscated for the ring road ► 34 homes bulldozed since 1 January

  21. Economic projects for Palestine Normalisingand promoting Israeli human rights abuses ► Promoted by the World Bank, the Quartet, development agencies, and the Fayyad government ► Creating sustainable ghettoes

  22. Economic projects for Palestine ► The Quartet wants ‘tourist friendly checkpoints’ for Bethlehem

  23. Military camp Checkpoint Free Trade Zone The Wall Confiscated area to be used for trade Economic projects for Palestine ► The World Bank wants secure industrial zonesbuilt on confiscated Palestinian land Jalama

  24. Economic projects for Palestine ► The World Bank wants secure industrial zonesbuilt on confiscated Palestinian land

  25. Population transfer is a war crime against people under occupation The crime of apartheid is being carried out with impunity Israel is in systematic breach of international law and international humanitarian law UN Responsibilities What waiting for? No-one is taking responsibilities Implement ICJ – fourth anniversary Bring ICJ back to gen assembly Zionism ... Reinstate UN commissions that worked on Apartheid Leave the Quartet

  26. Our recommendations for the UN Accept responsibility for implementation of international law, by all means necessary Implement the ICJ decision Take Israeli leaders responsible for breaches of IV Geneva Convention to the International Criminal Court Leave the Quartet, as recommended by John Dugard. The Quartet is avoiding its responsibilities, and promoting projects that will sustain the occupation. Reinstate the UN Commissions that worked on Apartheid in South Africa to work against apartheid in Israel.

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