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Farsakh

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2021-09-29
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  1. “The continuously evolving facts on the ground I referred to and their human impact serve to attest to Israel’s intentional undermining of a viable two-State solution and the prospect of peace in the region.”

    2021-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8869 (2021) · source

  2. “That is especially problematic for children, whose needs are magnified when their parents are contending with their own, and for women, as they are tasked with caretaking. When demolition involves makeshift schools constructed to service more remote and marginalized areas, such as Bedouin communities or communities isolated within the seam zone, the ability of girls in particular to continue their education is often threatened. The alternative, that of crossing in and out of heavily militarized checkpoints or walking along arduous footpaths or settler roads to reach schools beyond their community, often prompts families to discontinue their education out of fear for their safety. Similar concerns have served to hamper women’s participation in higher education and employment opportunities.”

    2021-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8869 (2021) · source

  3. “The financial, social and psychological ramifications of living in anticipation, or in the aftermath, of a demolition or violent act by an Israeli involve far-reaching impacts on the lives of Palestinians, from the loss of property or an inability to access livelihood resource and the associated financial impacts to the loss of social cohesion and freedom of movement, trauma and the resulting effects on mental health — for example, depression/anxiety, higher rates of delusional, obsessive, compulsive and psychotic thoughts and domestic violence and, in the case of children, withdrawal, attention difficulties, delinquency and violent behaviour. According to a study by Save the Children, having to cope with trauma emanating from house demolition in an environment of family trauma serves to marginalize the individual’s own need for care.”

    2021-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8869 (2021) · source

  4. “Facilitating the process of settlement expansion are Israel’s restrictive zoning and planning policies, which effectively preclude Palestinians from obtaining and/or affording building permits and leaves the great majority of residents vulnerable to the threat of demolition, as reflected in 241 villages being completely designated as Area C, nearly all Bedouin communities receiving blanket demolition orders and at least a third of the Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem lacking Israeli- issued building permits. Since the adoption of resolution 2334 (2016), Israel has only intensified demolition and displacement efforts in clearing the way for settlement expansion. Between January 2016 and August 2021, 3,255 Palestinian structures were demolished, displacing 5,622 women, men, girls and boys.”

    2021-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8869 (2021) · source

  5. “According to data collected by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 441 settler attacks were documented against Palestinians and Palestinian property in the occupied Palestinian territory in the first five months of 2021, which is nearly a threefold increase when compared to the monthly average of settler violence incidents the year prior.”

    2021-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8869 (2021) · source

  6. “Earlier in 2021, authorization plans were also furthered for another two outposts: Havat Yair in the Salfit governorate and Nofei Nehemia in the Nablus governorate. Settler violence, actively or tacitly supported by the Israeli army, has been among the key measures employed by settlers in constructing and maintaining settlements and outposts on Palestinian lands. Such violence takes the form of verbal assault and intimidation, physical attack up to murder, the destruction of property and fencing off land, among other measures.”

    2021-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8869 (2021) · source

  7. “Since the adoption of resolution 2334 (2016), approximately 60,000 additional settlers have taken occupancy of the occupied Palestinian territory through the addition of 43 new outposts and the expansion of existing settlements, as reflected in the published tenders for 15,900 new housing units, as per data published by Peace Now. More plans have since been announced in 2021, involving 9,000 housing units in the Atarot settlement, south of Ramallah, and 3,412 housing units in E-1, in the Jerusalem periphery, among others. More threatening still are the plans being advanced to retroactively authorize illegal outposts situated on Palestinian private land by declaring the lands as State land after the fact, as is being attempted in the case of the Evyatar outpost, constructed in May in the Nablus governorate.”

    2021-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8869 (2021) · source

  8. “Ms. Farsakh: We would like to attest before the Security Council to the blatant disregard of the State of Israel for international law in its continued settlement expansion into Palestinian territory, at the expense of Palestinians’ individual right to housing and collective right to self-determination, among other rights, such as the enjoyment of natural resources, private property, freedom of movement and, with the emergence of settler violence, personal security. The settler population now stands at nearly 670,000 persons across 132 settlements and 140 outposts in Area C and 13 settlement blocs in East Jerusalem, controlling nearly 43 per cent of the territory of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem — an enterprise amounting to the transfer of a State’s population into occupied territory.”

    2021-09-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8869 (2021) · source