The human cost of illegal occupation is central to the Occupied Territories Bill

Every day, in endless and oppressive ways, occupation chokes life in the West Bank. From morning to night, Palestinian lives are controlled, coerced and demeaned by a brutal and violent Israeli occupation. Daily life is intertwined with military checkpoints, a 700km wall dividing Palestinian territory and severe restrictions on movement.

Israel has illegally occupied the Palestinian West Bank, (including East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights since the 1967 war. Following the war, Israel began transferring its civilians to settlements established on this occupied Syrian and Palestinian territory. Today, Israeli settlements control more than 42% of the West Bank’s total land, confiscated from Palestinian communities, along with the majority of the region’s water resources.

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