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Ever since 1948, consecutive Israeli governments have pursued a policy that resulted in disrupting the integrity of the Palestinian community and creating apartheid-like enclaves, based on the presumption that the presence of Israeli settlements will make the withdrawal from the occupied territories a mission impossible and thus prevent the establishment of a truly independent Palestinian state. Despite that the Palestinian leadership formally accepted UNSC Resolution 242 that calls on Israel to withdraw from all captured territory as a basis for peace and requires from Palestinians to accept the remaining 22% of their homeland for an independent state, Israel failed
to consider this historical territorial compromise as a fundamental step in ending the conflict and
continued to expand and establish new settlements. Accordingly, this bulletin aims to demonstrate that unless the Israeli government is held accountable for breaches in international humanitarian law and human rights law, Israeli policies will continue to forcibly displace Palestinians, while integrating the West Bank (Area C) into Israel proper, thus destroying the last hope for building a viable Palestinian state and rendering a just and lasting peace in the framework of a two-state solution impossible.
