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122 “Barrier to Peace: Assessment of Israel’s Revised Wall Route,” p. 1.
123 2 th Four dunums = 1,000 m or 1000 dunums = 1 km². “Special Report on the 59 Anniversary of the Nakba,” PCBS, p. 6.
124 th “Special Report on the 59 Anniversary of the Nakba,” PCBS, p. 6.
125 “Barrier to Peace: Assessment of Israel’s Revised Wall Route,” p. 5.
126 “Question of the Violation of Human Rights in the Occupied Arab Territory, Including Palestine,” Report of the Special Rapporteur
of the Commission on Human Rights, John Dugard, on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory
Occupied since 1967, Commission on Human Rights, Sixty-second session, E/CN.4/2006/29, 17 January 2006, p. 5, para. 2.
127 Compilation of data from the Survey on the “Impact of the Annexation and Expansion Wall on the Socio-economic Conditions
of Palestinian Localities which the Wall Passes Through”, Ramallah: Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2003–2005.
128 The permits for the closed zone are green (and are referred to as “green permits”), and residents usually have to renew them every
six months. Green permits are also necessary for another 12 categories of visitor, including students, health workers, teachers,
merchants and international workers. More specifically, each gate generally requires a specific permit, and some gates are open
to Palestinians, while others are not. Travel is also subject to respective gate hours; gates usually open three times a day for approximately
one hour at a time, and at the will of soldiers, who can refuse passage to permit-holders. Some gates open only at
arbitrary times and in some cases not at all.
129 Israel Defense Force, “Declaration Concerning Closing an Area no. S/2/03 (Seam Zone),” Order Regarding Security Regulations
(Judea and Samaria), No. 378, 5730–1970, 2 October 2003. The permits are usually granted based on security considerations, but
recently, proof of land ownership has been required, and permits have been rejected on the grounds that applicants lack clear title
to the land. “Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights,” John Dugard, p. 9, para. 17. “UNRWA
monitoring indicates that permit eligibility has become increasingly dependent on proof of ownership of land as opposed to
security considerations.” See Report of the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
in the Near East, 1 July 2004–30 June 2005. UN GAOR, Sixtieth Session, Supp. No. 13 (A/60/13), 2005, para. 241, p. 56.
130 A survey undertaken by UNRWA and OCHA of 57 communities located close to the Wall revealed that 60% of farming families
no longer had access to their land west of the Wall. “Barrier Stops Palestinian Accessing Land,” Special Focus, Jerusalem: OCHA,
November 2006, p. 1.
131 “Palestinians residing in IDF[Israeli Defense Force]-declared ‘Closed Areas’ face an uncertain future in terms of their personal
and land status,” Preliminary Analysis of the Humanitarian Implications of the April 2006 Barrier Projections, Update 5, Jerusalem:
OCHA, April 2006, p. 3.
132 Abu El Haj, Tarek, “The Impact of the Barrier”, Geneva: Graduate Institute of Development Studies, 2006, p. 4.
133 “Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights,” John Dugard, p. 12, para. 32.
134 “Once the Wall is complete, some 20,000 Jerusalem ID holders living in Shu’fat refugee camp and the neighbourhoods of Ras
Khamis, Ras Shehadeh and Dahiyat as Salaam will be forced to pass through a Wall gate in order to access the city. This will
likely minimize the already meagre Jeursalem municipal services provided to a significant number of residents.... Access to vital
services, such as health and education, will be increasingly difficult. These residents fear that following these new developments,
including the treatment of their neighbourhoods as non-Jerusalem areas, the likelihood of their being able to maintain their
status as Jerusalem ID holders – and thus their ability to access the city – will be jeopardized.” “Creating a Semi-enclave: Focus
on Anata, Jerusalem Governorate,” Special Report, Ramallah: Negotiations Affairs Department, Palestinian Monitoring Group,
15 June 2006, p. 3.
135 “Under the Pretext of Security: Colonization and Displacement in the Occupied Jordan Valley,” Ramallah, Negotiations
Affairs Department, Palestinian Monitoring Group, July 2006, p. 10.
136 Only Palestinians registered as residents of the northern Jordan Valley, those with a work permit for the colonies, and Jericho
ID holders with a “West Bank checkpoint permit” are allowed unrestricted access to the Valley. All other Palestinians require a
special access permit, including landowners residing outside the Jordan Valley. Permits are issued for daytime stay only, while
travel on parts of Road 90 (the main road in the Jordan Valley) is also prohibited to Palestinians. “Humanitarian Update on
the Jordan Valley,” Special Focus: The Jordan Valley, Jerusalem: OCHA, October 2005, p. 1.
137 Ministry of Civil Affairs, Jericho (District Co-ordinating Liaison – DCL), which obtained the figures from the Palestinian
Ministry of Interior, Jericho; cited in “Under the Pretext of Security: Colonization and Displacement in the Occupied Jordan
Valley,” p. 10.
138 “The causes of population transfer can be dramatic, or subtle and insidious. Transfer can be carried out en masse, or as ‘lowintensity
transfers’ affecting a population gradually or incrementally.” See The Human Rights Dimensions of Population Transfer,
including the Implantation of Settlers, Preliminary Report prepared by A.S. al-Khawasneh and R. Hatano. Commission on
Human Rights Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Forty-fifth Session 2–27
August 1993, Item 8 of the provisional agenda, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17, 6 July 1993, at paras. 15, 17 and 32.
139 See Jonathan Cook, On the Margins: Annual Review of Human Rights Violations of the Arab Palestinian Minority in Israel in
2005, Nazareth: Arab Association for Human Rights, June 2006, p. 7.
140 Two institutions work together to manage land in Israel: the Israeli Land Administration (ILA) and the Jewish National Fund
(JNF). The JNF owns about 17% of land in Israel, while another 76% of the land has been nationalized and is held as “state
land”. The ILA manages both state land and land owned by the JNF. See Jonathan Cook, On the Margins, p. 17.
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