The Judaizationof Palestine:
2011 Displacement Trends
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© Ben Guss
2011 - RECORD YEAROF DISPLACEMENT
This publication provides a political analysisof the root causes and consequences of Israel’shouse demolition policy, focusing on thedemolition of Palestinian homes and otherstructures in the Occupied West Bank. Allrecorded incidents have been verified anddocumented by partners in the Displacement Working Group (an inter-agency group underthe auspices of the Office of the UN HighCommissioner for Human Rights ProtectionCluster, and chaired by the UN Office for theCoordination of Humanitarian Affairs. theDWG includes over one hundred members,such as UN agencies, international and local
ICAHD is an Israeli peace and human rights organizationdedicated to ending the Occupation and achieving a just peacebetween Israelis and Palestinians. In particular, ICAHD resistsIsrael‘s policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the OccupiedTerritory – more than 26,000 since 1967.
Israeli and Palestinian
NGO
s, and donors.
ICAHD
has been an active member of the groupever since it was established in 2008).
House demolitions and orced evictions areamong Israel’s most heinous practices in theOccupied Palestinian erritory (OP). In2011, a record year o displacement, a total o 622 Palestinian structures were demolished byIsraeli authorities, o which 36% (or 222) wereamily homes; the remainder were livelihood-related (including water storage and agriculturalstructures), resulting in 1,094 people displaced,almost double the number or 2010.
Te Jordan Valley sustained the largest number o demolitions (32% o total structures demolished,40% o residential structures demolished, 37% o people displaced), with 199 structures demolishedand 401 people displaced.For a viable Palestinian state to be established, the Jordan Valley represents an essential land reserve,agricultural hinterland and strategic economicinrastructure. Not only that, the area providesthe potential state’s sole land entrance. However,since 1967, Israel has coveted the Jordan Valleyboth or its economic potential and its strategicimportance in orestalling the creation o a viablePalestinian state. Israel justies its presence in thearea as necessary or security. For example, in hisMay 2011 address to the US Congress, IsraeliPM Netanyahu asserted that “Israel will nevercede the Jordan Valley. Israel would never agree to withdraw rom the Jordan Valley under any peace
“Palestinians are utterly frustrated by the impact of Israeli policies on their lives.They can’t move freely aroundtheir territory. They can’t plan theircommunities. They are evicted fromtheir homes. Their homes are regularly demolished. I don’t believe that most people in Israel have any idea of the way planning policies are used to divide andharass communities and families. They would not themselves like to be subjectedto such behavior.”
United Nations Under-Secretary-General orHumanitarian Aairs,
Baroness Valerie Amos,May 2011.
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