Impact of the Israeli Military Occupation on the Palestinian Human Security: Selected Cases of Villages in Nablus and Tubas Areas رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

The Palestinians have suffered since the start of the Israeli occupation from serious escalation of the Israeli occupation violence through excessive use of force, military operations, detention, settlers‘ attacks and vandalism, restrictions on movement, property confiscation, preventing construction, demolitions, and displacement. These measures violate the basic human rights such as the right to ownership, freedom of expression, social security and access to food and shelter. They are a major breach of the 4th Geneva Convention. This Thesis had worked on main objectives that had focused on highlighting the impact of the violations of the basic human rights in the target areas- in all aspects of life such as health (physical and mental) education, freedom of movement and residence, security, and justice. In addition to linking the Human Security Theory and see how relevant it is to the Palestinian context since here the human security works on protecting the vital core of all human lives in ways that enhance human freedoms and human fulfilment. It means protecting fundamental freedoms– freedoms that are the essence of life, protecting people from critical (severe) and pervasive (widespread) threats and situations using processes that build on people‘s strengths and aspirations and creating political, social, environmental, economic, military and cultural systems that together give people the building blocks of survival, livelihood and dignity It also had worked on shedding light on the impact of Israeli occupation practices (military operations, settlers‘ violence) on the residents of the target areas, could see that 6,085 structures were demolished in the last 10 years with the displacement of 9,474 Palestinians due to these demolitions. In With this thesis, the researcher had put the main point to draw attention to these marginalized areas and the vii impact of Israeli violence on the life of the people and the threat to their wellbeing due to the dearth of research on them. This research can be a good tool to work on setting the national plans to avoid the continuous destruction of the Palestinian wellbeing and the continuous violation of the basic human rights and threats to the Palestinian human security.