Munir Nuseibah, an academic and human rights lawyer in occupied East Jerusalem, has described the difficulties of life under occupation.
“The Israeli occupation has been continuously, since 1967 until today, displacing Palestinians from their homes, building settlements and Jewish-only colonies in the occupied Palestinian territory, controlling their movement, where they can go and what they can do,” he told Al Jazeera.
The control of the population, Nuseibah said, extends to measures such as imprisonment and torture, among others.
“These policies amount to apartheid; this is what a number of human rights organisations – Palestinian and international, as well as Israeli – have found after they examined the way that the Israeli legal system works,” Nuseibah added.
“Here in East Jerusalem, after the annexation and the building the wall, which the ICJ in 2004 declared as illegal, Jerusalem is isolated from the rest of Palestine. The Palestinian population is unable to move into Jerusalem, to work in Jerusalem and move freely.”
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