The Role of Settlements in Shaping the Israeli Apartheid Regime in the Occupied Palestinian Territories رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

This study aims to identify the role of illegal Israeli settlements in shaping the Israeli system of discrimination in the occupied Palestinian territories through the definition of Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories, and the definition of the discrimination system and the international agreements that stipulated it and the relevant reports in general. In this study, the researcher focuses on addressing the study problem: the role of settlements in shaping the Israeli apartheid regime in the occupied Palestinian territories. This research is divided into two chapters. The first chapter of this study deals with the historical background of apartheid in Palestine throughout history as a country under occupation. The second chapter discusses the legal framework of the study. The second chapter is divided into four sections. The first section deals with the crime of apartheid under the definition of international law and the elements of the crime. In the second section, it is prohibited to commit the crime of apartheid as peremptory norms or peremptory norms, and the role of settlement in establishing the apartheid regime in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In the third section, the practices and policies of the occupation in establishing the apartheid regime, and in the fourth section a case study of the village of Beit Dajan. The study concluded that the Israeli occupation state, by establishing Israeli settlements on the occupied Palestinian lands, created a system of racial discrimination against Palestinians and violated the rights of Palestinians on their lands.