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The illegal West Bank Barrier
[Justin McIntosh/Creative Commons]
ISRAEL’S illegal apartheid wall is still standing, 15 years after it was deemed illegal by the United Nations.
And rights groups warned yesterday that the structure has formed “the matrix of control” of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
A 2004 International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion found the wall was illegal. The UN judiciary body demanded an end to construction of the wall and said that it violated international law. It ruled that reparations should be paid to Palestinians.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
