DID YOU KNOW?
Since 1967, Israel has demolished 18,000 Palestinian homes
Source: Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
Half a million Israeli settlers live illegally in occupied Palestinian land
Source: Peace Now (Israeli peace group)
Israel has built nearly 200 illegal settlements on Palestinian land in contravention of the Geneva Convention
Source: BTselem human rights organisation
There are hundreds of kilometres of Jewish settler-only roads, on which the Palestinian population is not permitted to drive
Source: BTselem human rights organisation
Over 40 “unrecognised villages” exist housing over 100,000 Palestinian “citizens of Israel”. These villages do not appear on any map
Source: Adalah, the legal centre for minority rights in Israel
Some 500 checkpoints and roadblocks deny the Palestinians their freedom of movement
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Israel is in violation of more UN resolutions than any other country in the world
Source: United Nations
Palestinians are the biggest refugee population in the world. Israel denies their right to return to their homeland violating international law
Source: United Nations
Nearly 80 % of Palestinian households in the Gaza Strip are living in poverty and depend on UN food aid while Israel denies essential goods and fuel into the Gaza strip.
Source: United Nations
The International Court of Justice voted in 2004 by fourteen votes to one that “Israel is under obligation to terminate its breaches of international law; it is under an obligation to cease forthwith the works of construction of the wall…”
Source: International Court of Justice