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From visualizingpalestine.org: The Oslo Accords divided the Palestinian West Bank into three administrative zones: Area A (18%), where the Palestinian Authority (PA) administers civil and security matters; Area B (22%), where the PA administers only civil matters; and Area C (60%) where Israel maintains full control.1 Area C includes all Israeli settlements and two thirds of the West Bank’s fertile agricultural land.2 While Area C is a continuous territory, Areas A and B are fragmented into 166 separate enclaves.3 In spite of the breakdown of the Oslo process, Areas A, B and C remain in force today. ...

Excerpts from Wikipedia: The Bedouin are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. Bedouin tribes were not controlled by a central power, like a government or empire, but rather were led by tribal chiefs. The structure of Bedouin tribes were held together more so by shared feelings of common ancestry rather than a tribal chief atop the hierarchy. ...

Duyuk is a Palestinian village in the West Bank situated in the South Jordan Valley, near the border with Jordan. Since the 1967 war, it has been under Israeli occupation. As of 1997, it had a population of 1,286. According to the local council, 60% of the economic activity is from the agriculture sector, 30% is serving the Israeli labor market, and the remainder is in the employment sector. More Information Duyuk page on Wikipedia Duyuk page on www.palestineremembered.com

From makan.org.uk: The term ‘ethnic cleansing’ is related to genocide. It surfaced in the context of the 1990’s conflict in former Yugoslavia. It has been acknowledged in judgements and indictments of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and used in resolutions of the UN Security Council and the General Assembly. Ethnic cleansing has been defined by a UN Commission of experts as ‘rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from an area.’ It is ‘a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.’ ...

Videos 2012 Primer on Palestinian conflict by Jewish Voice for Peace 2017 Primer on Palestinian conflict by US Campaign for Palestinian Rights 2025 Documentary: “The Settlers” by Louis Theroux 2016 Investigation: “The Untold History of Palestine & Israel” by Abby Martin 2011 Documentary: “The Ultra Zionists” by Louis Theroux 2025 Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility, Part I, November 14 2025 Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility, Part II, November 15 2025 Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility, Evidence Sites ...

From makan.org.uk According to international law, genocide means ‘acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious groups’. The term was coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who led the campaign to have genocide recognised as an international crime. According to Lemkin, a key component of genocide is ‘criminal intent to destroy or cripple permanently a human group.’ Victims are deliberately targeted not as individuals but because of their membership of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. ...

From visualizingpalestine.org: The Oslo Accords were series of interim agreements reached between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel starting in 1993, which led to a US-brokered “peace processs” that was purported to lead to Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza. Although the Oslo process broke down by 2000, many of its interim measures—including the formation of the Palestinian Authority and the division of the West Bank into Areas A, B and C—remain in place today. Throughout the Oslo period Israel was in constant breach of its commitment not to “initiate or take any step that will change the status of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip”,1 by continuing its expansion of illegal settlements on Palestinian land in the West Bank including East Jerusalem. From 1993 to 2000 the population of these settlements rose dramatically from 263,000 to 357,000.2 ...

From visualizingpalestine.org: Created under the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority (PA)—or Palestinian National Authority—is responsible for administering Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank. The geographic limits of the PA’s authority in the West Bank is defined by so-called Areas A, B and C, also defined during the Oslo era. The PA operates in coordination with Israel, where Israel maintains control over all significant spheres such as borders, airspace, natural resources and the population registry,1 and has the effective power to veto PA legislation.2 ...

Based on Wikipedia: In Israeli law, an outpost is an illegal Israeli settlement within the West Bank, constructed without the required authorization from the Israeli government. Under international law all Settlements (whether designated “outpost”, “neighbourhood”, or “Settlement” by the Israelis) in the West Bank are illegal. Outposts appeared after the 1993 Oslo I Accord, when the Israeli government made commitments to freeze the building of new settlements. Although outposts were not officially supported by the government, Israeli public authorities and other government bodies played a major role in establishing and developing them. ...

According to Voices for Justice in Palestine: Settlers are religious zealots within Israel or foreign immigrants from places like the United States and Europe who are recruited to live in the illegal settlements as part of Israel’s plan to settle the land of Palestine. Most are motivated by messianic beliefs. All are given a generous package of state-financed inducements to move into settlement homes. The settlement homes are built on stolen Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank or East Jerusalem. Their presence is often accompanied by violence against Palestinians and protection by the Israeli military. Settlements or “colonies” are heavily fortified, connected by Jewish-only roads, and are designed to permanently fragment Palestinian communities. Their steady expansion is part of a broader system of colonization “to make Palestine Jewish.” Settlement expansion creates “facts on the ground” that prevent the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state. Settlements are illegal under international law. ...