Summary
Hebrew for “separation”: the formal description, noted by the Russell Tribunal on Palestine as presented in Chapter 9 of For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, of Israel’s policy of dividing the Israeli Jewish and Palestinian populations and allocating them different physical spaces, whose end result is wholesale territorial fragmentation and a series of separate reserves and enclaves, with the two groups largely segregated (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.175-176).
Details
- The Tribunal heard that in Israel Palestinians live in crowded, sometimes unrecognised villages while Jewish national or government-managed agencies ensure that 93% of the land is reserved for exclusive Jewish use, and that in the West Bank exclusively Jewish settlements, separate roads, buffer zones, checkpoints and the Wall confine Palestinians to isolated enclaves, with almost half of the West Bank closed to its Palestinian population (PDF p.175).
Related pages
For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, Apartheid, Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Bantustans