On Tuesday it released a 278-page report detailing the ways Israeli authorities carry out “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” by enforcing the system of domination and treating them as “an inferior racial group”.
The report, titled Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity, investigates mass seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians.
Speaking at a press conference in occupied East Jerusalem, Amnesty’s secretary-general Agnes Callamard said the report revealed the true extent of Israel’s apartheid regime.
“Whether they live in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, or Israel itself, Palestinians are treated as an inferior racial group and systematically deprived of their rights,” she said.
“It is the cruelty of the system — the intricate evolving administration of control, dispossession, and inequality, the incredible detailed bureaucratisation upon which that system is predicated.
“Its sheer banality and at times absurdity that has taken my breath away.”
In the report Amnesty has provided a number of recommendations for a way forward to dismantle the apartheid system, which includes removing the discrimination and segregation that upholds it and provides equal rights to all Palestinians in Israel.
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