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- (a) Military Order 5: "Order Concerning Closure Of
The West Bank" -- This declares the entire West Bank
a closed military area, with exit and entry to be controlled
according to the orders and conditions stipulated by the military.
- (b) Military Order 29: "Order Concerning Operation
Of Prisons And Detention Centres" -- This stipulates
that prisoners from the area should be kept separate from Israeli
prisoners whenever possible and that detainees should be separated
from convicted prisoners. It also details the regulations under
which a detainee should be allowed to prepare for trial; he
should be allowed to consult his lawyer when necessary, although
the Military Commander has the right to appoint a person to
sit in on these legal consultations, cut them short or ban access
to the prisoner altogether if he deems it necessary for reasons
of security. This Military Order also orders installation of
a registration tracking system for tracking inmates while they
are in the prison system.
- (c) Military Order 52: "Order Concerning Police Forces
Operating In Conjunction With The Israeli Military Forces"
--This order grants all police the same powers and jurisdiction
as those granted to soldiers.
- (d) Military Order 107: "Order Concerning Use Of Textbooks"
--This lists 55 books which are banned from being taught in
schools. These include Arabic language books, history, geography,
sociology and philosophy books.
- (e) Military Order 128: "Order Concerning Opening
Of Shops" -- This broadly defines 'shops' as businesses
of any kind. This order then requires the owner or manager to
open his business during regular working hours. The shop-keeper
is then forbidden to refuse to sell his stock or provide his
services to any person who is willing to pay reasonable fees,
or to do so in an irrational manner. Punishment for non-compliance
can involve the enforced closure of the shop, or the dispensation
of the stock in whatever manner the Military Commander sees
fit, regardless of whether the owner has been convicted.
- (f) Military Order 133: "Order Concerning Sale Of
Official Publications" -- "It is permissible for the
Military Commander to order a shop-keeper or stall-holder to
sell and display any official document at the stated price.
- (g) Military Order 144: "Order Concerning Security
Provisions" -- This cancels article 35 of Military
Proclamation 3, revoking the previous admission by Israel that
her military was bound, in its treatment of the Palestinian
population of the West Bank, Gaza and Golan, by the terms of
the Fourth Geneva Convention.
- (h) Military Order 361: "Order Concerning Documenting
Cars (Garages)" -- Any garage-owner or manager must
document the details of the age, model and license plate number
of any car in his garage and these records must be kept for
at least a year. Gives any policeman access at any time to the
information in this register.
- (i) Military Order 395: "Order Concerning Documentation
Of Vehicles (Garages)" -- A garage owner or manager
must include the following information in his registration of
vehicle details: the driver's name, the details of required
repairs, and the cause and degree of the existing damage.
- (j) Military Order 537: "Order Concerning Municipal
Law" -- This gives wide-ranging powers to the Area
Commander over municiple boundaries and services , their scheduling,
and who performs and supervises them. Thus empowered the Area
Commander to remove Mayors from major West Bank cities that
had been elected to those positions by the local populace.
- (k) Military Order 818: "Order Concerning The Planting
Of Certain Decorative Flowers" -- This order regulates
growing of decorative flowers, including numbers.
- (l) Other methods Israel has used to constrict Palestinian society which are oppressive and exploitive --
- (a) Building Israeli settlements on expropriated Palestinian land which are then given all sorts of special privileges;
- (b) Building a system of by-pass roads for Israeli use only, which helps further slice up occupied Palestine into small enclaves isolated from each other and the outside world;
- (c) Building a Security Fence/Wall not along Israel's border but through Palestinian communities separating families, and cutting off workers from their jobs, farmers from their fields, students from their schools, etc.
- (d) Installing a system of military checkpoints throughout occupied Palestine which limit movement in unfair ways, thus further strangling the economy and social life of Palestinian society;
- (e) Destroying or closing Palestinian civil infrastructure such as walls, bridges, and roads or by building ditches around neighborhoods or business centers which further inhibit movement and isolate Palestinian population centers;
- (f) Destroying Palestinian economic assets such as office buildings, and port and airport facilities, orchards, and factories which strangle the Palestinian economy and social movement;
- (g) Destroying Palestinian security facilities such as police stations and jails so that they cannot fulfill peace agreements, or improve their own law enforcement capabilities;
- (h) Assassinating rebel leaders (many of them moderate who were interested in negotiating with Israel), officially called 'targeted assassination'.
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