Forty-nine Facts about Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip

This week marked the 49th anniversary of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. So here are 49 facts about a military regime that has lasted almost half a century.

1. The West Bank – including East Jerusalem – and the Gaza Strip together constitute the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), which have been under Israeli military occupation since June 1967.
2. Prior to Israeli occupation, the West Bank was controlled by Jordan, and the Gaza Strip by Egypt.
3. Before the State of Israel was established in 1948, the West Bank and Gaza Strip were simply parts of Mandate Palestine; their ‘borders’ are the result of Israeli expansion and armistice lines.
4. 300,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip became refugees during Israel’s conquest in June 1967; the vast majority were unable to return.
5. In 1967, Israeli forces ethnically cleansed and destroyed a number of Palestinian villages in the OPT,including Imwas, Beit Nuba, and others.
6. By an odd coincidence of history, Israel’s military occupation of the OPT began not long after the military regime over Palestinian citizens of Israel had formally ended in December 1966.
7. Therefore, the State of Israel has subjected Palestinians citizens and Palestinian non-citizens to military rule for all but six months of its 68-year existence.
8. One of the first acts of Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem was to demolish the Mughrabi Quarter, expelling 600 residents and destroying 135 homes.
9. In place of the 800-year old Mughrabi Quarter, Israel created the Western Wall Plaza.
10. The first West Bank settlement was established in September 1967, supported by the then Labor-led government.
11. All Israeli settlements in the OPT are illegal under international law, constituting a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
12. In a secret memo in 1967, a legal adviser to the Israeli government affirmed the illegality of civilian settlements in the OPT.
13. By 1972, there were some 10,000 Israelis living in illegal settlements in the OPT.
14. In 1974/75, Israel established Ma’ale Adumim, located in the West Bank to the east of Jerusalem. It is now the largest Israeli settlement in terms of area.
15. There are now 125 government-sanctioned settlements in the OPT, plus another 100 or so unauthorised settler ‘outposts’.
16. There are around 400,000 Israelis living in illegal settlements the Occupied West Bank.
17. This excludes residents of colonies established in East Jerusalem – a further 200,000.
18. Israelis have voted in 14 national elections since June 1967. Unlike settlers, Palestinians in the OPT have been unable to vote in any of those 14 elections.
19. According to the UN, there have been 2,598 acts of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the last ten years.
20. One of the methods adopted by Israeli authorities over the decades to colonise West Bank land has been Ottoman-era land legislation dating back to 1858.
21. By the mid-1980s, Palestinian cultivated land in the West Bank had dropped by 40 percent.
22. In 1991, Israel began requiring a Palestinian seeking to enter Israel from the OPT to obtain an individual permit.
23. More than 500 physical obstacles, including checkpoints and earth mounds, restrict Palestinian freedom of movement in the West Bank.
24. In 2003, Israel began work on the Separation Wall in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Around 85 percent of the total length of the Wall’s projected route lies inside the OPT.
25. In 2004, the International Court of Justice in The Hague issued an advisory opinion that the construction of the Wall in the OPT is “contrary to international law”.
26. Some 82,000 settlers live outside the Separation Wall; add Ariel, a major settlement-city in the middle of the northern West Bank, and the total is around 100,000 settlers.
27. The Gaza Strip is home to around 1.8 million Palestinians, some 70 percent of whom are United Nations (UN)-registered refugees, expelled from their homes by Israel in 1948.
28. For decades, Israel maintained a permanent armed presence in Gaza, expropriated land, and built colonies for a settler population that rose to more than 8,000.
29. In 2005, Israel removed these settlers, and redeployed its forces to Gaza’s perimeter fence.
30. The Gaza Strip is still under Israeli occupation: along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem, it forms part of a single territorial entity (OPT).
31. This was affirmed in UN Security Council Resolution 1860 in 2009, and also affirmed in November 2014 by the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
32. In 1967, Israel expanded Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries to include newly-occupied territory; this act of annexation has never been recognised by the international community.
33. A third of the annexed territory was expropriated; by 2001, some 47,000 settlement housing units had been built on this expropriated land.
34. The vast majority of Palestinians in Jerusalem are permanent residents, not citizens. In 2014, the residency status of 107 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem was revoked.
35. Palestinians suffer from a discriminatory water policy maintained by Israeli authorities.
36. Israel enforces a dual legal system in the OPT: civil courts for the 600,000 settlers, and military courts for 4.5 million Palestinians. The latter has a 99.74 percent conviction rate.
37. The Israeli military detains Palestinians from the OPT without charge or trial, for renewable six-month periods. There are currently 715 such prisoners, from a total of 7,000 jailed Palestinians.

    Saker Jaabis sits in rubble of his home in Jabel Mukaber in Jerusalem, demolished by Israeli authorities

38. Since 1967, Israeli authorities have demolished hundreds of Palestinian homes as an act of collective punishment.
39. Many Palestinian structures are demolished by Israeli forces for lacking the right permit; yet more than 95 percent of Palestinian permit applications are rejected.
40. In 2016 to date (June 6), Israeli military authorities have demolished 625 Palestinian structures.
41. During the First Intifada (1987–93), Israeli forces killed over 1,000 Palestinians, one in five of them children.
42. In the first few days of the Second Intifada, the Israeli army fired 1.3 million bullets.
43. In six military offensives from 2006-2014, Israel killed 1,097 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.
44. Israeli occupation forces killed 137 Palestinians in the West Bank in 2015, and 56 in 2014. Over the same two-year period, Israeli forces also injured 19,950 Palestinians in the West Bank.
45. The Oslo Accords, signed in the mid-1990s, saw the establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs some aspects of life for Palestinians, in some of the OPT.
46. The Accords divided up the OPT into Areas A, B, and C. The territory of Areas A and B is not contiguous, and consists of 227 separate areas under varying degrees of PA control.
47. Some 60 percent of the West Bank remains under full Israeli military and civil control. However, even in the rest of the West Bank, the Israeli military conducts raids at will.
48. According to Human Rights Watch: “Palestinians face systematic discrimination merely because of their race, ethnicity, and national origin.” Amnesty International agrees.
49. In 2012, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said Israeli policies in the OPT violate the prohibition of “racial segregation and apartheid.”

Mystery Babylon Is Revealed – The Arrival Of The Final Kingdom Is Fast Approaching – End Times Revelations Revealed

(Before It’s News)

Mystery Babylon is Revealed – And the Elect shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

When Mystery Babylon is revealed, the Great Whore will be destroyed, and God’s Elect will be persecuted for three and a half years.

Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

This fourth Beast is also the final kingdom on earth before the return of Christ the Messiah.

Dan 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour ( or make accusations against) the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

This last and short lived kingdom will definitely change the daily events for everyone. He will accuse the world of following false gods, and ironically he will be partially correct.

Dan 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

At the end of this Great Tribulation Christ returns, and thus fulfills the prophecy hidden to most in the Lord’s prayer. Thy Kingdom come thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven (Math 6:10).

Dan 7:13-14 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

Mystery Babylon is Revealed through the beast and false prophet.

This demonically inspired Beast will change the laws of God, and will demand to be worshiped as god. Also note the period of time given unto the beast, it is three and one half years, which represents the time of the Great tribulation.

When the great whore system is exposed and taken out of the way, Christianity will also suffer tremendously, at the hands of the fourth Beast system.

The great whore has a desire for absolute world domination, but it will not come to fruition. 

Her reign of terror will soon come to an abrupt and violent end, as her services will no longer be required when Mystery Babylon is revealed, who is the one that gave birth to her.

Satan will no longer operate through the Great Whore system secretly. He will declare himself to be the god of this world, and through the Beast demand to be worshiped as such.

Only seven kings fully reign with the Beast for the entire three and one half years of his kingdom, at which time the Two witnesses will confirm the covenant of Christ (Rev 13:15).

These seven kings, will give their kingdom and power unto the Beast and are a part of the fourth and final evil kingdom on earth, before Christ’s second coming. (Rev 17:17; Dan 7:7-8; 7:23-24).

The Beast will make war with the Saints and he overcomes them, he also has power over all tribes, tongues and nations (Rev 13:7-8). The only ones he will not have power over, are those who are Born Again through the Holy Spirit.

The fact that there are saints alive during this time known as The Great Tribulation, proves that the Rapture or  Gathering of the Saints unto Christ, has not yet happened.

Also we notice that the Beast does not have power over all peoples. The all that he does have control over represents all of a certain type. Those that worship the Beast, are the ones not sealed by Christ.

Babylon is synonymous with confusion, and Jerusalem is known as the city of confusion (Isa 24:10).

The Great Whore has taken by force and stolen that which is not rightfully hers, believing she is invincible, but this will soon change (Deut 28:13, 15, 25, 28, 44, 48, 63).

When Mystery Babylon is revealed, the Great Whore will be destroyed by this master of deception. It will be easy for Satan to expose the great carnage that the Great Whore system has produced, which he created. Through lying signs and wonders Satan will convince the world that he is their long awaited messiah.

As judaism and world zionism will be exposed for the great carnage and deception they produced, so to will the religion of christianity be crushed. The judeo-christian deception will be realized for what it is, self-righteousness and hypocricy.

Only the true followers of Christ will endure faithfully until the end.

Isaiah 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

Many claim to know God, but as a result of the false teachers they surround themselves with, they are generally unwilling or unable in most cases to think for themselves. They would rather listen to men that claim a god given right to have authority over them and the gospel.

2 Tim 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables

That time is now! Sound doctrine is almost unheard of in these last days; however the fables are indeed plentiful.

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• jknbt

  the harlot of rev 17-18 is the roman catholic church and the city of Rome in particular, not the US….

  Reasons why true: (open up the chapter using BibleGateway.com pick your fav translation, read along with the interpretations below)

  Rev 17:
  verse
  1…………Rome is a port city on many waters
  3-4………purple color of bishops, scarlet color of cardinals
  4…………call the pope & priests Father, a title reserved for the Heavenly Father only, blasphemy
  4…………rich ornamentation of the Vatican and cathedrals, pearls, gold, precious stones
  4………..cup in hand….golden chalices with pearls for communion wine
  4………..abominations, fornications, filthiness….whole lists of compromises since king Constantine legalized Christianity
  5………..there is a name written on the inside of the pope’s hat…this is God’s opinion of it…when the pope puts on his hat, that name is tightly fitting on his forehead
  6………….blood of saints and martyrs….the roman church was the number one killer of born again Christians until recent days with the persecutions in the middle east…how many died in the inquisition? in the religious wars of Europe where so called Christian kings tried to force protestant nations back into the church?
  8………..the beast is revived Rome
  9………….seven hills…the original city of Rome built on 7 hills
  10……….the kings are john’s version of the metal man in Daniel 9….the king that is presently is the EU
  11-13……the 8th king is the mahdi Muslim messiah who will rule the Sunni 10 nation confederacy
  14……….Jesus will defeat the Muslim hoards as in Rev 19
  15……..the harlot is a world wide organization, another indication of the roman church
  16-17……the mahdi and friends will persecute the roman church
  18………the harlot is a great city, Rome
  chapter 18
  verse
  2,,,,,,,,,,,,the city is named Babylon….see 1 Pet 5:13….Babylon is a code word for Rome, peter finished his ministry in Rome, not in Iraq
  3-19…..judgment on Rome, ruined in a day…judgment on the economy also…fire, burning, and smoke indicate a nuclear detonation
  20-24…..more judgment on the economy…
  the judgment of Rome and the roman church causes great rejoicing in heaven, Rev 19:

  God presents the true bride, his holy church, in heaven….Rev 19: 7-9

  the Catholics should take this seriously and start moving their great art treasures up into caves in the alps…

  “come out from among her, and be ye separate”…..2 Cor 6:17….true Christians, get away from the compromises, idolatry, false doctrine, works salvation, and a hundred other compromises while you can…

  Jun 14, 2016, 5:19 pm 0 Reply