International law dictates that military occupation is an inherently temporary situation, and its prolonged, indefinite duration raises significant legal concerns, potentially leading to its classification as unlawful. While no specific maximum time limit is universally defined, the core principles of international law, especially international humanitarian law (IHL) and the right to self-determination, treat a long-overdue occupation as a violation of fundamental norms.
A key principle is that the occupying power does not acquire sovereignty over the territory, but merely exercises temporary administrative control. The purpose is to act as a de facto administrator until control can be returned to the sovereign power, ideally as soon as possible, but that has never been the intention of the Israeli belligerent. However, the role the Israeli belligerent is resorting to is that of taking the sovereignty that the Palestinian Authority has over the West Bank.
Therefore, the acquisition of territory by force is strictly prohibited under the UN Charter and customary international law. A prolonged occupation that seeks to make permanent changes to the territory or effectively annex it (de jure or de facto) is a serious breach of international law.
- Please take note that dates refer to the day when a video or photo was published on the account of a social media user, where it was found.
- Credit: photographers, videographers, reporters, and journalists in the West Bank, news agencies, and other sources.
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- Parent Category: WAR CRIMES
- Category: Beating, torture, other prisoner rights abuses
20231111 - Video shows Israeli soldiers torturing a Palestinian man
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- Parent Category: WAR CRIMES
- Category: barbarity
20231111 - unknown place, Gaza - Israeli media has published footage of an Israeli armed bulldozer running over a Palestinian
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- Parent Category: ARMED ANNEXING BELLIGERENT
- Category: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
20231108 - Nahef, West Bank - Woman was arrested for reportedly uploading a WhatsApp status praising Hamas.
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- Parent Category: WAR CRIMES
- Category: Abduction
20231106 - Ofer prison, Beitunia, West Bank - Israeli footage show Palestinian prisoners
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- Parent Category: DEMOGRAPHIC ALTERATION
- Category: IIlegal transfer of foreigners
20231105 - unknown place, West Bank - Evidence showing that the Israelis transferred French colonists
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- Parent Category: WAR CRIMES
- Category: Injuring or killing of occupied civilians
20231109 - Jenin, West Bank - Israeli occupiers open fire on people who try to help a wounded
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- Parent Category: WAR CRIMES
- Category: Abduction
20231102 - news - Israeli occupation troops arrest dozens of Palestinians across the West Bank
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- Parent Category: WAR CRIMES
- Category: Abduction
20231102 - unknown place, West Bank - 2 brothers have been arrested by occupation forces
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- Parent Category: WAR CRIMES
- Category: Abduction
20231102 - unknown place, West Bank - Occupiers abducting Palestinian men