The conflict in Gaza has left over 74,000 dead, displaced 1.9 million people, and damaged 81 percent of all structures, alongside crippling 98 percent of schools and half of the hospitals. In the occupied West Bank, military operations and settler actions have displaced 46 communities while damaging key refugee camps such as Jenin, Nur Shams, and Tulkarem. Compounding the physical destruction, Israel's withholding of tax revenues has severely underfunded West Bank hospitals, and pending demolition or stop-work orders threaten at least 84 schools. These combined pressures, alongside permit revocations, have driven unemployment to over 90 percent in Gaza and 29.5 percent in the West Bank.
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Essential public services are collapsing under physical bombardment, tax withholdings, an…: Essential public services are collapsing under physical bombardment, tax withholdings, and demolition orders against schools and hospitals.
Palestinian economic stability has dissolved following the revocation of work permits and…: Palestinian economic stability has dissolved following the revocation of work permits and settler-driven cutoffs from vital agricultural lands.
Escalating unemployment and ration cuts by the World Food Programme have created an unpre…: Escalating unemployment and ration cuts by the World Food Programme have created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis across the territories.
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Israel is making Palestinian existence in Palestine increasingly impossible.
For decades, the international response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has centred on the search for a political settlement.
Today, this strategy increasingly misses the more urgent issue: Palestinian civilian life and social structures are in grave danger because of the continuing colonisation of Palestine.
In Gaza, a genocidal war has killed more than 74,000 people and created the conditions for excess deaths of tens of thousands more. It has wiped out whole neighbourhoods, critical infrastructure and forced the education and healthcare systems into collapse.
In the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, different mechanisms of destruction operate: Settler and military violence, forced displacement, restrictions on movement, loss of access to agricultural land and livelihoods, fiscal pressure on Palestinian civil administration, etc.
Taken together, these policies affect the ability of Palestinian communities to continue to exist. For that reason, an international protection force is urgently needed not only to prevent Israeli violence, but to protect Palestinian schools, hospitals, access to livelihoods and access to aid.
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