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.
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