WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY ITALIA ROME - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, UCADI #211 - What's New - The Ravaged West Bank (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

During the 1967 war-better known as the Six-Day War-Israel attacked Egypt and Jordan, extending its control over East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which were wrested from Jordanian administration. While the cessation of hostilities cemented the acquisition of the Sinai (a process begun during the 1956 war), it also established Israeli control over the Golan Heights, seized from Syria. These territories were not legally annexed to Israel; indeed, the State's Supreme Court has never declared either Gaza or the West Bank to be part of Israeli territory. This gave rise to the term "occupied territories," denoting an Israeli administration that is intended to be temporary. The UN-and, for what it is worth, the International Court of Justice in The Hague and international law-regard these territories as being under "temporary" occupation, pending a legal settlement.

From the outset, Israel pursued a policy of occupation and settlement in these areas, establishing colonies, promoting land acquisition and housing projects, and creating a network of connecting roads accessible only to Israelis. These roads were strategically designed to progressively isolate the territory, transforming the areas inhabited by the indigenous Palestinian population into increasingly isolated enclaves.
An ever-growing number of Israeli citizens from major cities have gradually relocated to the occupied territories and the newly built settlements. They are drawn by spacious, low-cost housing and a lower cost of living-benefits made possible by substantial funding from the state or international Jewish groups, which take the form of financial incentives and tax breaks. Many of them relocate for ideological reasons, viewing the West Bank-referred to as Judea and Samaria in biblical terms-as the land promised to the Jewish people.
A significant number of these individuals are of foreign origin, arriving by the tens of thousands from the United States, France, Russia, other Western nations, and the former Soviet Union; many hold dual citizenship and move for ideological, religious, or economic reasons. Many arrive in Israel via *Aliyah* (the Jewish right of return) and choose to settle directly in West Bank outposts, driven by fundamentalist or messianic visions that lead them to regard these territories as the Promised Land, thereby creating highly cohesive communities with a strong ideological character.
All this occurs despite the fact that the Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from transferring its own civilian population into occupied territories. Consequently, the international community-including the European Union and the UN-officially regards all West Bank settlements as illegal under international law, regardless of the individual residents' countries of origin. In reality, however, a sense of shame regarding the Holocaust-compounded by even deeper, entrenched economic ties between states and Israel, as well as pressure from economically powerful and politically well-connected Jewish lobbies-ensures a complicit tolerance and indifference toward the rights of Palestinians. These Palestinians see their lands occupied and razed, face repression and killing at the hands of both the military and settlers, and witness the ever-expanding, unauthorized construction of settlements aimed at driving them from their territory. A minor complication in all this appears to have arisen from a home targeted by settlers-who cut off electricity and gas and blocked the delivery of water and food to the family inside-and from the fact that the owner of the besieged property is a Palestinian with dual citizenship, holding US nationality as well. This detail became a flashpoint for controversy, prompting even the Zionist US Ambassador to Israel to lodge a vigorous protest with the government over the violation of rights-demonstrating that the sanctity of US citizens takes precedence over the messianic imperative.
Regardless of how this specific case is resolved, the fact remains that these criminals, with the active complicity of the Israeli army, are orchestrating the expulsion of the indigenous population to enable millenarian fanatics to strip an entire people of their rights-all amidst the complicit silence of a world that watches these events unfold with indifference.
As demonstrated by the massive demonstrations in support of Gaza and Palestine-and in defense of the rights of the inhabitants of the occupied West Bank-even if states remain silent, the conscience of the people is vigilant; it has internalized the profound suffering and violence inflicted upon the Palestinians, coming to the realization that, from this point forward, no response to this oppression is unjustified.

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/09/06/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-la-cisgiordania-stuprata/
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