CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoIsraeli settlements in Palestinian territories amount to ‘war crime’: UNwww.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1294arrow-down116cross-posted to: palestine@lemmy.ca
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minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·8 months agoSettlements is not the same as occupation. Quoth the fourth Geneva convention, Article 49: The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. Israeli settlements are exactly that: Transfer of Israeli civilian population into occupied territory.
Settlements is not the same as occupation. Quoth the fourth Geneva convention, Article 49:
Israeli settlements are exactly that: Transfer of Israeli civilian population into occupied territory.