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Amnesty International Publishes a Report Describing Israeli Practices Towards Palestinians since 1948 as “Apartheid”
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February 01 2022

Titled “Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity,” Amnesty International published a 182-page report today (Tuesday 1 February 2022), describing Israel as an “apartheid regime”. Amnesty demanded that Israel be held accountable, based on violations as defined by the Apartheid Convention. For the first time, a human rights organization classifies Israel as an apartheid regime based on its practices not only towards Palestinians living in the territories occupied in 1967, but also towards its own Palestinian citizens, and on its denial of the rights of Palestinian refugees.

Amnesty accused Israel of having sought to form a Jewish demographic majority since its establishment in 1948, and that it expanded this policy in 1967 to include the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The report made several recommendations for how to stop discrimination and fragmentation and demanded that Israel should grant all Palestinians equal rights in line with the principles of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law.

Presenting the Report during a press conference in East Jerusalem on 1 February, Agnès Callamard, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, said that the report documents how massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forced transfers, severe restrictions on freedom of movement, and denial of citizenship and citizenship rights for Palestinians are all part of a system that amounts to apartheid under International Law.

"Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity"

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