Execution of Plan Dalet, among other Zionist military plans, led to the successful cleansing of 85 percent of the Palestinian people from the land that became the state of Israel.9 Yet, the creation of Israel in 1948 was never understood to be the end goal. Together with the acceptance of the UN Partition Plan, the declaration of the State of Israel on part of the territory was merely a consolidating stepping stone to gaining full acquisition of Mandatory Palestine; a goal that would require ongoing erasure of the Palestinian people. To that end, the ensuing 71 years since the Nakba have seen Israel adopt evolving and varying means – including further armed conflict, military occupation, and policies of ongoing forcible transfer10 – to achieve this same objective of transferring the Palestinian people out of Mandatory Palestine. However, given that approximately 6.84 million Palestinians continue to reside in Mandatory Palestine today,11 the establishment of Israeli-Jewish supremacy has necessitated policies beyond just forcible transfer and displacement. In this regard, the control, domination and fracturing of the Palestinian people has been critical to the Zionist enterprise, and Israel’s emergence as an apartheid state has been the most significant manifestation of this. Yet, far from being the desired outcome of the Zionist regime, Israel deploys these apartheid practices – particularly segregation, fragmentation and isolation – in a way that aims to induce and maintain the gradual disconnection of the Palestinian people from their land. By utilizing these mechanisms to sever the attachment of Palestinians to their land and undermine their collective 9 The Plan Dalet was a general plan for military operations that would eventually lead to “the destruction of the Palestinian Arab community and the expulsion and pauperization of the bulk of the Palestine Arabs […]”, in Walid Khalidi, “Plan Dalet: Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine,” Journal of Palestine Studies 18, no.1 (1988), 8. See also BADIL, Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 2016-2018, vol. 9 (Bethlehem: BADIL, 2019), 6, available at: https://www. badil.org/phocadownloadpap/badil-new/publications/survay/survey2016-2018-eng.pdf [hereinafter BADIL, Survey 2016-2018]. 10 See BADIL’s Forced Population Transfer series: BADIL, Forced Population Transfer: The Case of Palestine - Introduction, working paper no.15 (March 2014); BADIL, Denial of Residency, working paper no.16 (April 2014); BADIL, Discriminatory Zoning and Planning, working paper no. 17 (December 2014); BADIL, Installment of a Permit Regime, working paper no. 18 (December 2015); BADIL, Suppression of Resistance, working paper no. 19 (December 2016); BADIL, Denial of Access to Natural Resources and Services, working paper no. 20 (September 2017); BADIL, Land Confiscation and Denial of Use, working paper no. 21 (October 2017); BADIL, Denial of Reparations, working paper no.22 (October 2018). All papers available at: https://www.badil.org/en/publication/research/working-papers.html [accessed 28 February 2020]. 11 This figure includes 2.99 million Palestinians residing in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, 1.99 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and an estimated 1.84 million Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship. Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics [PCBS], “On the occasion of the International Population Day 11/7/2019,” press release, 11 July 2019, available at: http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/post. aspx?lang=en&ItemID=3503 [accessed 28 February 2020]. 11