law – are prevalent in the West Bank: the Annexation and Separation Wall, as well as the construction and expansion of colonies and their associated infrastructures.148 The Wall illegally runs through the West Bank appropriating private Palestinian land.149 If completed, the wall will de facto annex 708 square kilometers of the West Bank.150 In the Gaza Strip, or the so-called ‘buffer zone’, is a military no-go area that comprises the entire northern and eastern perimeter of the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, inside the Palestinian territory, as well as at sea. The precise areas designated by Israel as ‘buffer zone’ are unknown, and the unpredictably changing Israeli policies are typically enforced with live fire.151 The buffer zone covers 17 percent of Gaza’s total land area and, most significantly, 35 percent of its agricultural land.152 It is estimated that 113,000 people or 7.5 percent of the population have been directly impacted by the buffer zone.153 It violates the provisions of the Oslo Accords and all the subsequent ceasefire agreements.154 The Israeli imposed buffer zone surrounding the Gaza Strip, both on the land-locked side and the sea-side, could constitute de facto confiscation. There are various other Israeli mechanisms leading to confiscation of Palestinian land in the oPt. Some of these are addressed within the case studies presented below, which provide an illustration of how such mechanisms operate on the ground. 148 BADIL, Israeli Land Grab, 73, supra note 18. 149 International Court of Justice, Advisory Opinion, “Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”, 9 July 2014, available at: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index. php?pr=71&code=mwp&p1=3&p2=4&p3=6 [accessed 22 September 2017]. 150 BADIL, Israeli Land Grab, 57, supra note 18. 151 Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, “The Buffer Zone in the Gaza Strip,” 2010, available at: http:// pchrgaza.org/en/?p=5042 [accessed 25 September 2017]. 152 United National Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and World Food Programme, “Between the Fence and a Hard Place: The Humanitarian Impact of Israeli Imposed Restrictions to Land and Sea in the Gaza Strip,” 2010, 5, available at: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/betweenfence-and-hard-place [accessed 25 September 2017]. 153 Diakonia, “Within Range: An Analysis of the Legality of the Land ’Buffer Zone’ In the Gaza Strip,” September 2011, 10, available at: https://www.diakonia.se/globalassets/documents/ihl/ihl-in-opt/ within_range_legal_analysis_of_the_gaza_buffer_zone_on_land_diakonia_sept2011.pdf 154 PCHR, “Israeli Buffer Zone Policies Typically Enforced with Live Fire,” IMEMC, 11 May 2015, available at: http://imemc.org/article/71548/ [accessed 22 September 2017]. 55