ESCWA Publication: E/ESCWA/ECRI/2014/BOOKLET.1
Country: Arab region, State of Palestine
Publication Type: Information material
Cluster: Governance and Conflict Prevention
Focus Area: Resilient development & conflict prevention
Initiatives: Support to the Palestinian people
SDGs: Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Keywords: Human rights violations, International humanitarian law, Military occupation, Palestine question, Palestine refugees, Social conditions, State of palestine, Statistical data, International law, Territories occupied by israel
Palestine, the occupation and the fourth Geneva Convention: Facts and figures, 2014
January 2014
Over the past twenty years, Israel, the occupying Power, continued to disregard international humanitarian law, and to ignore its obligations as a state party to the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection Civilians in time of war, (the Fourth Geneva Convention) dated 12 August 1949. Since the Israeli legal system did not take serious measures to prosecute those responsible for violations of the Convention, the international community should develop specific mechanisms to achieve restorative justice and compensation to Palestinian victims.
This booklet lists main articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and examples of its violation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory by Israel, with the aim to raise awareness on the issue and prompt a discussion on how to enforce international law, namely respect for the provisions of the Convention in the occupied Palestinian territory. For, there will be no peace in Palestine or anywhere else outside the framework of international law.
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Resilient development & conflict prevention
Over the past twenty years, Israel, the occupying Power, continued to disregard international humanitarian law, and to ignore its obligations as a state party to the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection Civilians in time of war, (the Fourth Geneva Convention) dated 12 August 1949. Since the Israeli legal system did not take serious measures to prosecute those responsible for violations of the Convention, the international community should develop specific mechanisms to achieve restorative justice and compensation to Palestinian victims.
This booklet lists main articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and examples of its violation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory by Israel, with the aim to raise awareness on the issue and prompt a discussion on how to enforce international law, namely respect for the provisions of the Convention in the occupied Palestinian territory. For, there will be no peace in Palestine or anywhere else outside the framework of international law.
