• Violations: expanding industrial zone
• Location: Al-Irqa  village- Jenin governorate
• Date: May 01, 2017
• Perpetrators: Shaked industrial zone
• Victims: farmers of the village

Details:

It is reported that the industrial zone "Shaked" that is founded behind the apartheid wall on confiscated lands from Al-Irqa village is undergoing expansion works on a total area of 220 dunums to the north of the zone. Noteworthy, nine heavy machineries are reported active in the area leveling lands to prepare for the coming step.

The ravaging works are reported intense in the natural blocks number 11+12 from the village. The occupation takes advantage of the farmer's inability to access their lands since they are located behind the apartheid wall. This helped the Israeli occupation to impose a de facto and implement its agenda of colonial expansion.

Photos 1-6: the expansion works on Shaked industrial zone

Shaked's Industrial zone:

The industrial zone that is relative to Shaked colony is what makes it very special. The zone includes 9 factories of (leathers, iron, cardboard, plastic furniture, and other industries) and is located in the northeastern side of the colony.

This very area got best privileges as opposed to other peers behind the green line in terms of electricity and water supply, tax reduction, and open market, which in that sense served at the area's prosperity, continuity, and sustainability.

About Shaked:

It was established in 1981 and has a total population of 686 colonist most of whom are right-wing extremists. The colony is considered a growing one during the past decade where the apartheid wall served at its expansion.

Land Research Center sees Israel continuous expansion on colonies in the West Bank and Jerusalem at the expense of Palestinian and lands a flagrant violation of Human Rights and all international laws and conventions, which prohibit disposition of public properties in occupied countries.

UN Resolutions

UN Security Council Resolution 242 of 1967: calls for

• the Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;
• Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." [4]

UN Security Council Resolution 449 of 1979: the Security Council determined:

• "that the policy and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity and constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East"

UN Security Council Resolution 452 of 1979: states that

• "the policy of Israel in establishing settlements in the occupied Arab territories has no legal validity and constitutes a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949"  and "calls upon the Government and people of Israel to cease, on an urgent basis, the establishment, construction and planning of settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem."

UN Security Council Resolution 465 of 1980:

• It expressed concern at Israeli settlement policy in the Arab territories and recalled resolutions 237 (1967), 252 (1968), 267 (1969), 271(1969) and 298 (1971). It further called upon the State and people of Israel to dismantle such settlements. The resolution calls on all states ‘not to provide Israel with any assistance to be used specifically in connection with settlements in the occupied territories’.

UN Security Council resolutions in regard to Israeli colonies:

UN Security Council resolution 446, article 3 "   Calls once more upon Israel, as the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, to rescind its previous measures and to desist from taking any action which would result in changing the legal status and geographical nature and materially affecting the demographic composition of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and, in particular, not to transfer parts of its own civilian population into the occupied Arab territories;"

 

• Un Security Council resolution 452, article 3"Calls upon the Government and people of Israel to cease, on an urgent basis, the establishment, construction and planning of settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem;"

 

• Un Security Council resolution 465, Strongly deplores the continuation and persistence of Israel in pursuing those policies and practices and calls upon the Government and people of Israel to rescind those measures, to dismantle the existing settlements and in particular to cease, on an urgent basis, the establishment, construction and planning of settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem;

  Calls upon all States not to provide Israel with any assistance to be used specifically in connexion with settlements in the occupied territories;

• Un Security Council resolution  242, Affirms that the fulfilment of Charter principles requires the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following principles:

  (i) Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;
  (ii) Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;

 

 

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
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