Genocide of the Occupied Territories of Palestine

The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories which have been designated as occupied territory by the United Nations and many other international organizations, governments and others to refer to the territory occupied by Israel from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria after the Six-Day War of 1967. They consist of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and much of the Golan Heights and, until 1982, the Sinai Peninsula. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are also referred to as Palestinian territories or Occupied Palestinian Territory. The Palestinian Authority, the EU, and the UN Security Council consider East Jerusalem to be part of the West Bank, a position disputed by Israel. Israel has annexed East Jerusalem by the Jerusalem Law. The significance of the designation of these territories as occupied territory is that certain legal obligations fall on the occupying power under international law. Under international law there are certain laws of war governing military occupation, including the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and the Fourth Geneva Convention. One of those obligations is to maintain the status quo until the signing of a peace treaty that the Zionists have repetitively violated, the resolution of specific conditions outlined in a peace treaty, or the formation of a new civilian government. A genocide is taking place in Gaza. On 2 September 2006, three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun. Before the end of day many more were massacred. An average of twenty Palestinians die daily in the Israeli attacks on the Strip. Most of them are children. Hundreds are maimed, wounded and paralyzed. The Zionist leadership is at a loss of what to do with the Gaza Strip they are desperate for a Final Solution and the sensational press in America is covering it up. It has vague ideas about the West Bank. The current government assumes that the West Bank, unlike the Strip, is an open space, at least on its eastern side. Hence if Israel, under the ingathering program of the government, annexes the parts it covets -- half of the West Bank -- and cleanses it of its native population, the other half would naturally lean towards Jordan, at least for a while and would not concern Israel. This is a fallacy, but nonetheless it won the enthusiastic vote of most of the Jews in the country. Such an arrangement can not work in the Gaza enclave -- Egypt unlike Jordan has succeeded in persuading the Israelis, already in 1948, that the Gaza Strip for them is a liability and will never form part of Egypt. So a million and half Palestinians are stuck inside Israel -- although geographically the Strip is located on the margins of the state, psychologically it lies in its midst. On Dec. 28, 2006, the Israeli human rights organization Betzelem published its annual report on Israeli atrocities in the occupied territories. In 2006, Israeli forces killed 660 citizens, triple the number of the previous year (around 200). Most of the dead are from the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces demolished almost 300 houses and have slain entire families. Since 2000, almost 4,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, half of them children, and more than 20,000 wounded. Genocide continues in the Occupied Territories even now.

Zionist policy makers are facing two very different realities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In the former, they are finishing construction of their eastern border. Their internal ideological debate is over, and their master plan for annexing half of the West Bank is gaining speed. Gaza is a Mega Prison with a large Cadge built around it. The living conditions are inhumane and their is no Fresh Water in Gaza. The West Bank suffers with constant bowdlerizing of Houses, Synagogues, Churches and Masques. Rabbis are beat on a daily basis, discrimination towards Christians and Muslims is very high. Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine at the hands of the Zionists has been going on since before 1948. And it is continuing even Now.