military base and entered the camp.107 Through loudspeakers attached to the jeep, the following announcement was issued, in Arabic, to the camp’s residents: Inhabitants of Aida, we are the occupation’s army. If you continue to throw stones, we will continue to shoot gas, until you die; the children, the adults, the elderly, the dying. Everything. We do not want to leave any of you alive. I have one of you.108 You saw him with your own eyes; we took him up with us [to the military base]. We will even kill him in front of you if you continue throwing stones. We will shoot gas until you die: on your homes, on your families, brothers, sons, everything. Listen to me, an advice; I tell you: go home, it is better for you.109 Such an announcement is remarkable in its stated blatant contempt for human life, as well as raising a multitude of grave concerns about the lack of adherence to central tenets of international law on part of the Israeli forces. The prohibition on threatening to carry out a prohibited act is recognized in international law, whilst such threats were made all the more serious by the spate of unlawful killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces during the month of October 2015, when the threat took place. This announcement represents an unequivocal threat to kill Palestinian civilians, acts which would represent extrajudicial executions and, given the protected status of the occupied Palestinian population, a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The announcement made from the jeep also includes, in its reference to lethal gassing of all of the camp’s inhabitants, a clear and grave threat to collectively punish the population of Aida Camp by way of lethal force. The issuing of such a statement was an affront to international law; a statement intended on and serving to terrorize the population of Aida Refugee Camp. The Case of East Jerusalem East Jerusalem has been increasingly targeted by the Israeli occupation forces since the Second Intifada which started in September 2000. Due to the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem, Israel applies its civil law there. This often differs from the military orders in the West Bank although the conditions for Palestinians in East Jerusalem are no less grave. International law defines arbitrary deportations as the transfer of a person against their will outside 107 BADIL Resource Center, BADIL calls for an Immediate and Urgent Investigation into Threats by Israeli Armed Forces to execute Palestinian Civilians and Prisoners, 30 October 2015. Available at: http:// www.badil.org/en/publication/press-releases/60-2015/4498-pr-en-301015-31.html 108 It refers to a 25 year-old male from the camp that was arrested and transferred to the military base, where the detainee alleges to have been badly beaten by both Israel soldiers and Israeli civilians, shortly before the announcement was made. He was later released and treated in a Bethlehem hospital 109 BADIL, BADIL calls for an Immediate and Urgent Investigation, op. cit., 30 October 2015 32