Almost 60 years ago the Israeli government was told by one of its senior legal advisers that the Jewish civilian settlements it was supporting on the occupied West Bank, which it had annexed after the 1967 Six-Day War, violated international law. In a “Top Secret” and “Most Urgent” memo, the adviser wrote that the occupation violated Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel was a party. His memo also said the occupation breached Article 46 of the Hague Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land by confiscating the private property of the Palestinians and...
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