Day 1304: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: mosque
I decided to do this prompt in a form of a poem to in a
nutshell speak about what has been happening in Palestine. If you one of many
who have no idea what has been happening Palestine they has been occurrences
since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan which to Muslims is the holiest
of months.
Sheikh Jarrah is a place based in Palestine where few families are to be illegally evicted from Palestinian land by Jewish Israeli settlers. In which they basically get kicked out of their homes in a way of ethnic cleansing backed by Israeli police and soldiers. Palestinians decided that they were going to peacefully protest against the illegal removal of the families
who are being oppressed and have been living there for years. In retaliation the
Israelis attacked the Al Aqsa mosque while Palestinians were praying. They
threw stun grenades and rubber bullets, injuring more than 205 people.
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Prompt: Mosque
We stand with you in crowds immense
With a prayer we commence
To what they have offence
We stand with you in defence
We are not silence
To those tyrants
Inflicting violence
They steal you land and you resist
So they attack your mosque so you desist
Stand strong
This is your home …
External reading -international law broken by isreal
LIST OF INTRNATIONAL LAW VIOLATIONS BY THE STATE OF ISREAL
The state of Israel has violated many international laws, including United Nations Resolutions and the Laws of War and
Occupation as stated in the Fourth Geneva Convention. Below is a summary of some of those violations. Much of the fact sheet
was taken from the Israeli Law Resource Center (ILRC). Related articles and laws by the ILRC are linked below.
ISRAELI OCCUPATION IS ILLEGAL:
Laws Violated: U.N. Charter, Article 2(4) & 51 (1945); Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations…, Principle 1
(1970).
Israeli Actions: It is illegal under international law to acquire land by force: Israel annexed land occupied by force during 1948 and 1967 wars (lands
other than those given by the UN 1947-48 partition plan) ILRC article. Military action and occupations are legal only if they are for self-defense, or
to directly benefit the native population. But studies show Israel is not just defending itself as it develops de-facto annexation with its settlements and
separation barrier on occupied land, as it takes over most of the occupied territories (over 70%) and its natural resources for its own use and
economic benefit, at the expense of the native population. ILRC article on why the Occupation is illegal.
ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ON OCCUPIED LAND:
Laws Violated: Geneva Conventions IV, Article 49(6) (1949). It is illegal to colonize occupied land or transfer non-indigenous population to that
land.
Israeli Actions: Immediately following the 1967 war, Israel began building Israeli civilian settlements on Palestinian lands, eventually building over
200 settlements throughout the occupied territories, and settling over 450,000 Israeli civilians in them, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian
civilians from their own legally owned lands. In addition, Israeli citizens live in hundreds of Israeli settlements on occupied land not originally given
to them in the UN Partition Plan, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. ILRC article.
ILLEGAL TO TAKE LAND BY FORCE & CLAIM SOVEREIGNTY:
Laws Violated: U.N. Charter, Article 2(4) (1945); Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations…, Principle 1
(1970).
Israeli Actions: In violation of the UN Partition Plan, Israel took an extra 15% of the land in 1948, and then, following the 1967 war, Israel
confiscated East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. ILRC article.
ILLEGAL ISRAELI PRACTICE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING:
Laws Violated: Forbidding civilian populations the right to return to their homes following the end of armed conflict is in direct violation of
international law and UN resolutions. Geneva Convention IV, Articles 45, 46 & 49 (1949), UN resolutions 194 (III) (General Assembly; 1948) &
237 (Security Council; 1967).
Israeli Actions: Since 1910, in different ways, the Zionists and then Israel have taken Palestinian lands, forced native populations from their land,
and then refused the Palestinian landowners or tenants’ residency or employment on them. Following fighting in 1948 and then again in 1967,
Palestinian civilians who wished to return to their homes in Israel and the Occupied Territories were forbidden re-entry (“right of return”), confining
them to increasingly smaller areas of Israel and Occupied Territories. The Israeli government enacts laws, and employs its military to keep
approximately 750,000 Palestinian Arab civilians from returning to their homes following the end of fighting both in 1948 and in the occupied
territories in 1967. Israel then violates UN resolutions ordering them to respect Palestinians’ right to return to their homes. See the ILRC article on
Right of Return and ILRC article on Ethnic Cleansing.
ISRAELI APARTHEID SYSTEM IS ILLEGAL:
Laws Violated: International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (1976). Link to our fact sheets on Israeli
Apartheid.
Israeli Actions: The State of Israel has a formal system of legalized discrimination against Palestinian Arabs which technically fits the official UN
definition of Apartheid. ILRC article. Israel’s society-wide system of discrimination and isolation of the Palestinian people within Israel, and its
system of exploitation, oppression and isolation in the occupied territories, fits exactly the official, legal UN definition of apartheid, which is
considered to be a crime against humanity. The practice of passing laws which give special favor throughout Israeli society to the Jewish people over
all other people, and especially the native Palestinian Arab people, embodies the UN definition of apartheid, which is giving special favor to one
group of people above all other groups based on criteria like what religion they are.
Another example is in 2003, the Israeli legislature (Knesset) passed legislation that forbade spouses of Arab-Israeli citizens who are in the occupied
territories from joining their families in Israel (with some exceptions). The reason for this legislation is to help maintain the Jewish demographic
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