Just the Facts: Collective Punishment
| Understanding Collective Punishment: Just the Facts. Forms of Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians… |
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- checkpoints
- walls
- curfews
- the Nakba Law
- home demolitions
- forcible transfers
- checkpoints
- cancelling entry permits
- destroying infrastructure
- night raids
- tear gas
- land seizures
- uprooting olive trees
- online censorship
- indiscriminate attacks
- attacking civilian buildings
- forced closures
- mass arrests
- and more!
Learning More
- Start by reading the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory. Mr. Michael Lynk, statements on the illegality of Israel’s use of collective punishment.
- And then Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor’s conclusion that “Israel collectively punishes the population in Gaza by targeting homes and civilians”.
- You can watch Al-Shabaka’s “Collective Punishment: Israel’s Strategy to Subdue Palestinian Resistance”.
To go deeper, we are developing an extensive list of Additional Resources at the bottom of this week’s entry as well as a YouTube playlist on the subject.