Introduction:

My paper will talk on the infamous dispute of Israel and Palestine concerning Israel’s state
succession over Palestinian land as an unlawful military occupation violating the fourth Geneva
Convention through transferring its population by the means of settlements and infusing Israeli
military through it therefore, establishing its control in the West Bank (present mainstream
Palestine). Through this paper I’ll research whether these settlements are a part of an unlawful
state succession activity against Palestine by Israel with showcasing an analysis from the
arguments and statements from various legal scholars, Israeli officials and pro-Israel
conservatives. I’ll further talk on the amount of toll this dispute has taken on the Israeli and
Palestinian civilians over the time. Followed by the solutions, countries like Israel and Palestine
can opt to for resolving a decade long state occupation dispute.

History of the Israel-Palestine conflict:

As a part of the 19th-century Zionist movement, Jews had begun settling in Palestine as early as
1820. The effort of the Jews to establish a Jewish homeland in order to escape European social
scrutiny received British approval in the Balfour Declaration of 1917. During the 1930s, Jews
who were mostly persecuted by the Hitler regime saw their resolve to survival in Palestine as it
was also their ancient holy land belonging to their ancestors. The post-World War II symptoms
fetch a global acknowledgment to the Holocaust, raising an Unanimous criticism worldwide of
Hitler's genocide of 6 million Jews in Ghettos ultimately peaked international interest in
establishing Jewish people’s rights and sympathy for the cause of Zionism. The British mandate
to govern Palestine, which had been in effect since 1923, ended after the World War II and, in
1947, the United Nations voted for dividing Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a
small international zone1. Arabs rejected the idea, but the plan moved forward and the British
officially withdrew on May 14, 1948, and the Jewish National Council proclaimed the State of
Israel.

Israel is the world’s only Jewish state, located just east of the Mediterranean Sea. Palestinians,
the Arab population that hails from the land, which Israel now controls, refer to the territory as
Palestine, and want to establish a state by that name on all or part of the same land. The Israeli-
Palestinian conflict is over the issue of who gets what land and how it’s controlled.

1
Guide: why are Israel and Palestinians fighting over Gaza, https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/20436092