Enter the answer length or the answer pattern to get better results. ‘The charge that israeli settlements violate international law is widely accepted in the international community. In recent years, roughly ten new illegal outposts have been built each year. The Israeli government and a small number of legal experts dispute this, arguing that the Geneva Convention is not applicable to the West Bank because Israel is not an occupying power there (since the territory had no legitimate sovereign and that, even if the Geneva Convention does apply, it only prohibits forcible population transfers (like the mass deportations..)’. JERUSALEM (AP) — A new Israeli law legalizing dozens of unlawfully built West Bank settlement outposts came under heavy criticism on Tuesday from some of Israel's closest allies, as local rights groups prepared to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the measure. "Government statement on recognition of three settlements", "Cabinet seeks to limit Barak's say on settlements", "Netanyahu Presents His 'Allon-Plus' Final Status Map", "Comprehensive Settlement Population 1972–2010", "IDF Civil Administration pushing for land takeover in West Bank", "Israel Defense Ministry plan earmarks 10 percent of West Bank for settlement expansion", "Israel Studies An Anthology: Jewish Settlement in Israel", "Israeli Report Condemns Support for Settlement Outposts", "Silwan settlers plan Passover festival in bid to curry favor with public", "Population by year in West Bank settlements", "Housing minister sees 50% more settlers in West Bank by 2019", "Settler leader: Population growth is end of 2-state solution", "Palestine-Israel Journal: Settlements: A Geographic and Demographic Barrier to Peace", "Residents in occupied Golan Heights fear creeping Israeli presence", "S/14268 Report of the Security Council Commission Established Under Resolution 446 (1979)", "Comprehensive Settlement Population 1972-2008—FMEP", https://books.google.com/books?id=n2n9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT15, Sources of Population Growth: Total Israeli Population and Settler Population, 1991–2003, Settler Population Growth East and West of the Barrier, 2000–2007, "Palestinians shun Israeli settlement restriction plan", "Home > Jewish Times World Series ignites old passions among West Bank's American Jews", "Olmert curbs WBank building, expansion and planning", "Group: Israel Controls 42% of West Bank: Settlements Occupy Land Seized from Palestinians in Defiance of 1979 Court Ban, Israeli Human Rights Group Says", 'Palestinians prepare to lose the solar panels that provide a lifeline,', Detained, interrogated, beaten: Demand protection for Palestinian children (Amnesty USA, June 2015), Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Israel) (9 March 2012), "In about-face, Israeli ministers block bill to annex West Bank settlements", "Israel launches massive new West Bank settlement plans", Israel must withdraw all settlers or face ICC, says UN report (The Guardian, 31 January 2013), "Jewish settlers in West Bank building curb protest", GC4 Part III : Status and treatment of protected persons #Section III : Occupied territories, "The Hague vs. Israel: Everything you need to know about the ICC Palestine probe", Progress report—The human rights dimensions of population transfer including the implantation of settler, "La France durcit sa position face à la colonisation israélienne", "EU states promote settler boycott amid Israel crisis", "The Carter Administration View: "Settlements are Inconsistent with International Law, "Cour internationale de Justice – International Court of Justicee", "Canadian Policy on Key Issues in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict", Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 'U.N. ", 'Israel demolishes West Bank villages as Jewish outposts remains untouched', 'Palestinians prepare to lose the solar panels that provide a lifeline' Wednesday, 14 March 2012: 'According to UN research, as the result of these policies, 10 of 13 Palestinian communities living in, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, "Ariel gets university status, despite opposition", Education council angry over decision to upgrade Ariel College status, "Shomron Regional Council Receives National Education Award", "Vice PM: Ofra settlement homes built on private Palestinian land", Israeli Settlements and International Law, "Occupied Territories" to "Disputed Territories", "Bush at Risk of Losing Closest Mideast Ally", "What Happened to Secure Borders for Israel?