Alwaght – It seems that many in this World are looking at the Israeli regime with a blind eye, neglecting all the violations of the 'Human Rights' that take place on the occupied-Palestinian lands. It is our duty to open the eyes of World, specifically the West and its Arab allies, to the injustice and oppression found in the Israeli regime .
The main 'Human Rights' issues in which the Palestinians are been oppressed through, under the Israeli regime rules, are security, shelter, and religion .
Security wise, Israeli regime is oppressing the Palestinian through its 'Administrative detention' system, where they arrest any suspected individuals without any charge or trial .
Ann Harrisson, Deputy Director in the Amnesty International global movement, said “[Israeli regime] has used its system of administrative detention – intended as an exceptional measure against people posing an extreme and imminent danger to security – to trample on the human rights of detainees for decades. It is a relic that should be put out to pasture .”
The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) also expressed concern by the continued and increasing use of administrative detention by Israeli regime authorities against Palestinians, who are being held without charge or trial, often on the basis of secret evidence, for periods of up to six months, and sometimes up to a year. The OHCHR has condemned this kind of practice on numerous occasions, but the Israeli regime continues with its unjustified oppressive actions .
In February this year, there were reportedly 424 Palestinians held under administrative detention orders – more than double the 181 held at the same time last year .
OHCHR reiterates it call on Israeli regime to end its practice of administrative detention and to either release without delay or to promptly charge all administrative detainees and prosecute them with all the judicial guarantees required by international human rights law .
The prolonged hunger strikes of administrative detainees such as Khader Adnan and Hana Shalabi put the issue of administrative detention under the international spotlight. Their non-violent protest was followed by a mass hunger strike which included an estimated 2,000 other Palestinians in Israeli prisons, many of whom are either serving prison sentences or awaiting trial. Amnesty International’s report also documents measures taken by the [Israeli regime] Prison Service (IPS) against prisoners and detainees who went on hunger strike, with detainees describing ill-treatment by medically-trained IPS staff .
This practice is criticized by human rights organizations as a breach of civil and political rights. As explicitly proclaimed in Article 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the right to fair trial is an essential right in all countries that respect the rule of law. The majority of countries in the world are parties to the Covenant — including Israeli regime, which signed the treaty in 1966.
Shelter wise, Israeli regime is making it very hard for Palestinians to build houses in the occupied lands. Other than that the Israeli regime is also bulldozing many houses belonging to the Palestinians .
And sometimes, the Israeli regime not just made it hard for Palestinians, but totally prevented them from building houses on their own lands .
Also, Israeli regime is preventing Palestinian farmers from entering their fields in the area to tend to their crops .
"This is my land. We have always owned this land but the Israelis are trying to empty it of all the indigenous people,” says Mosa Abu Aram, a Palestinian farmer from Yatta .
The Israeli regime is also violating the international law by expanding their Zionist settlements into Palestinians lands .
Today, more than half a million Zionists live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israeli regime's occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967 .
The UN and most countries regard the Israeli regime settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israeli regime in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbids construction on occupied lands .
Religion wise, the Israeli regime gives the Muslim Palestinians a hard time to pray in the Aqsa mosque in al-Quds. The Israeli regime every now and then announces different restrictions on the entry of Muslim Palestinian to the Aqsa mosque to attend the Friday prayers .
Sometimes the announced restrictions are as following: Women aged between 16 and 30 should have a permission to perform prayer in the Aqsa mosque on Friday, adding that this also applies to men aged between 30 and 50. Also, females aged below 16 and above 30 and males aged below 12 and over 50 are allowed to enter without permission, but youngsters and men aged between 12 and 30 will not be allowed to enter at all .
And sometimes it is announced that women of all ages and men aged 40 and over from the West Bank are allowed to attend the Friday prayers without permits .
It seems the rule system in the Israeli regime, other than being oppressive and violating to the 'Human Rights', it is also baseless, where there is no definite criterion for specifying the rules .
