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Report (Advanced unedited version)<\/a><\/p>\n GENEVA (10 July 2023) \u2013 Israel\u2019s military occupation has morphed the entire<\/em>\u00a0occupied Palestinian territory into an open-air prison, where Palestinians are constantly confined, surveilled and disciplined,\u201d a UN expert said today.<\/p>\n \u201cOver 56 years, Israel has governed the occupied Palestinian territory through stifling criminalisation of basic rights and mass incarcerations,\u201d said Francesca Albanese,\u00a0UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, in a new\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0to the Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n \u201cUnder Israeli occupation, generations of Palestinians have endured widespread and systematic arbitrary deprivation of liberty, often for the simplest acts of life and the exercise of fundamental human rights,\u201d Albanese said. Without condoning violent acts that Palestinians may have committed during decades of Israel\u2019s illegal occupation, most of their criminal convictions have resulted from a litany of violations of international law, including due process violations, that taint the legitimacy of the administration of justice by the occupying power.<\/p>\n The report finds that since 1967, over 800,000 Palestinians, including children as young as 12, have been arrested and detained under authoritarian rules enacted, enforced and adjudicated by the Israeli military. Palestinians are subject to long detention for expressing opinions, gathering, pronouncing unauthorised political speeches, or even merely attempting to do so, and ultimately deprived of their status of protected civilians. They are often presumed guilty without evidence, arrested without warrants, detained without charge or trial and brutalised in Israeli custody.<\/p>\n \u201cMass incarceration serves the purpose of quelling peaceful opposition against the occupation, protecting the Israeli military and settlers, and ultimately facilitating settler-colonial encroachment,\u201d the Special Rapporteur said.<\/p>\n \u201cBundling Palestinians as a collective \u201csecurity threat\u201d, Israel has used draconian military orders to punish the exercise of basic rights. These measures have been used as tools to subjugate an entire population, depriving them of self-determination, enforcing racial domination and advancing territorial acquisition by force,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Albanese noted that Israel\u2019s \u201ccarceral regime\u201d haunts Palestinian life even outside prisons. Blockades, walls, segregated infrastructure, checkpoints, settlements encircling Palestinian towns and villages, hundreds of bureaucratic permits and a web of digital surveillance, further entrap Palestinians in a carceral continuum across strictly controlled enclaves.<\/p>\n \u201cThe widespread and systematic arbitrariness of the occupation\u2019s carceral regime is yet another expression of the apartheid imposed on the Palestinians and strengthens the need to end it immediately,\u201d the UN expert said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mass and arbitrary deprivation of liberty that Palestinians have been collectively subjected to for decades aims to protect Israel\u2019s annexation of Palestinian territory, a project with unlawful aims pursued by unlawful means,\u201d Albanese said. \u201cThis macroscopic violation of fundamental principles of international law cannot be remedied by addressing some of its most brutal consequences. For Israel\u2019s carceral regime to end, and its inherent apartheid with it, its illegal occupation of Palestine must end,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Albanese called on Member States to uphold their obligations not to aid or recognise Israel’s settler-colonial occupation and incremental annexation, and use all diplomatic, political and economic measures under the UN Charter to bring it to an end and make sure its architects are brought to justice.<\/p>\n ENDS<\/p>\n Francesca Albanese is the\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/a>Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/u><\/p>\n The Special Rapporteurs are part of what is known as the\u00a0<\/em>Special Procedures<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council\u2019s independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organisation and serve in their individual capacity.<\/em><\/p>\n UN Human Rights, Country Page:\u00a0<\/em>Occupied Palestinian Territory<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Israel<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n For more information and\u00a0media requests<\/strong>, please contact Junko Tadaki (+41 22 917 9298,\u00a0<\/em>junko.tadaki@un.org<\/em><\/a>) or write to:\u00a0<\/em>hrc-sr-opt@un.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n For media inquiries related to other UN independent experts, please contact Dharisha Indraguptha (<\/em>dharisha.indraguptha@un.org<\/em><\/a>) or Maya Derouaz (<\/em>maya.derouaz@un.org<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n Follow news related to the UN\u2019s independent human rights experts on Twitter\u00a0@UN_SPExperts<\/em><\/p>\n Concerned about the world we live in?<\/em> Report (Advanced unedited version) GENEVA (10 July 2023) \u2013 Israel\u2019s military occupation has morphed the entire\u00a0occupied Palestinian territory into an open-air prison, where Palestinians are constantly confined, surveilled and disciplined,\u201d a UN expert said today. \u201cOver 56 years, Israel has governed the occupied Palestinian territory through stifling criminalisation of basic rights and mass incarcerations,\u201d […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1602,2025],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1741,2185,1805,3589,2285,2309],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-288350","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","document-category-press-release","document-source-human-rights-council","document-source-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-opt","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-legal-issues","document-subject-occupation","document-subject-population","document-subject-prisoners-and-detainees","document-subject-protection","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/288350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/288350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288400,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/288350\/revisions\/288400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=288350"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=288350"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=288350"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=288350"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=288350"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=288350"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=288350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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