Forced population transfer is illegal and has constituted an international crime since the Allied Resolution on German War Crimes was adopted in 1942. The strongest and most recent codification of the crime is found in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which clearly defines forcible transfer of population and settler-implantation as war crimes. In order to achieve the forcible transfer of the indigenous Palestinian population many Israeli laws, policies and state practices have been developed and applied. Today, this forcible displacement is carried out by Israel in the form of a ‘silent’ transfer policy. The policy is silent in the sense that Israel applies it while attempting to avoid international attention and regularly displacing small numbers of people. The structure discriminates against Palestinians in areas such as citizenship, residency rights, land ownership as well as regional and municipal planning.