Without struggle or defiance, Israel can continue implementing its policies of colonization, apartheid, and forced displacement unhindered. Hence, while suppression of Palestinian resistance is a standalone method of forced population transfer, it also facilitates the enforcement of other policies, which emphasizes the need to document all instances of suppression and highlight the use of this policy as means to further displace Palestinians. Following the legal analysis which is established through the frameworks of international humanitarian, human rights, and customary law in relation to the suppression of resistance, this working paper is divided into three chapters that cover the predominant forms of Israeli suppression: punitive retaliation, imprisonment, and the suppression of Palestinian civil society. While addressing a number of laws, practices, and methods implemented by the Israeli regime against Palestinian people, both individually and collectively, this paper should not be considered comprehensive. It highlights many of the forms of suppression in order to provide a broad understanding of these practices as mechanisms of forcible transfer and/or displacement such as; collective punishment, deportation of prisoners, the denial of identity and culture, and others. The methods and practices detailed in the paper are by no means exhaustive. This paper concludes by addressing the consequences of Israeli suppression as triggers to direct and indirect forced population transfer of Palestinian people. These triggers represent human rights violations, with certain cases constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity. 10

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