Netanyahu’s security risks mount as violence spirals in West Bank
- June 28, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Netanyahu’s security risks mount as violence spirals in West Bank
Subject : IR
Section: Places in news
Concept :
- Violence in the occupied West Bank risks spiraling out of control fueled by Israel’s use of advanced military weaponry more suited to a war zone, the UN human rights chief warned.
- Israel saw armed battles between its forces and Palestinian militants, attacks on settlers by Palestinian gunmen and violence by radical settlers in Palestinian villages — all in one week.
West Bank
- The West Bank is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediterranean in Western Asia that forms the main bulk of the Palestinian territories.
- It is bordered by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east and by Israel to the south, west, and north.
- It was captured by Jordan after the Arab-Israeli War (1948) but Israel snatched it back during the Six-Day War of 1967 and has occupied it ever since.
- Ramallah, the de facto administrative capital of Palestine is situated in West Bank.
- At present, there are around 130 formal Israeli settlements along with 26 lakh Palestinians at West Bank.
- Under the Oslo Accords of the 1990s, both Israel and the Palestinians agreed that the status of settlements would be decided by negotiations.
Legality of the settlements:
- The United Nations General Assembly, the UN Security Council, and the International Court of Justice have said that the West Bank settlements are violative of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
- Under the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949), an occupying power “shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies”.