What happens to the Palestinians when Israel takes away their land?
On June 23, a young Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli police officers after he allegedly tried to ram his car into one of the many police checkpoints that dot different roads crisscrossing occupied East Jerusalem. , 27, was killed hours before he was supposed to attend his sister’s wedding. His family says he had been running errands throughout the day and was murdered in cold blood after a routine accident.
Israel has already carved chunks of the West Bank, the region on the west side of the Jordan River, and the fertile Jordan Valley. Over the years, more than 700,000 Jewish settlers have built homes and businesses on the occupied Palestinian lands. He was aiming to make this happen on July 1 but now the proposal has been pushed back as Israeli lawmakers grapple with the legal and foreign policy complications that come with such a move.
At the moment, Israel has not declared what the annexation would look like, nor has it suggested what would happen to the tens of thousands of Palestinians who live around the settlements. Palestinians continue to live miserable lives under Israeli military control - they are stopped and harassed not just by soldiers but by the settlers who openly carry automatic rifles.
“Second-class citizens - that's the best way to describe what the reality of Palestinians will look like,” Antony Loewenstein, an independent journalist, author and film-maker who has been writing about Israel-Palestine for more than 15 years, tellsSuch a system where a Jewish settler will have all the rights but a Palestinian will not, is undemocratic, normalising segregation and inequality. Netanyahu, however, is the least bothered about it.
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