OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
Disengagement Plan of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
April 16, 2004
Full text of Sharon's plan to evacuate all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the northern West Bank. The plan was implemented in August of 2005. Read More >
Secret 1970 Document Confirms First West Bank Settlements Built on a Lie
Haaretz (July 1970)
The document, a copy of which has been obtained by Haaretz, details a meeting in the office of then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, at which government and military leaders spoke explicitly about how to carry out this deception in the building of Kiryat Arba, next to Hebron. Read More >
Israel Used Military Censor to Conceal First Settlements From Public, Document Reveals
Haaretz (June 19, 1969)
Document shows that Israel’s leaders used military censorship to cover up the establishment of the first West Bank settlements by banning the publication of articles by Haaretz and another daily, Hatzofe, on the issue. Read More >
Johnson Administration Alarmed by Israeli Settlement Plans
April 8, 1968
Top secret memorandum sent to Israel's Foreign Ministers in the wake of the 1967 war. It contains the opinion of the Legal Adviser to the Foreign Ministry that settlement in the "administered territories" occupied by Israel after the war is in contravention of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Read More >
Foreign Ministry Memorandum on Legality of Settlements
September 18, 1967
Top secret memorandum sent to Israel's Foreign Ministers in the wake of the 1967 war. It contains the opinion of the Legal Adviser to the Foreign Ministry that settlement in the "administered territories" occupied by Israel after the war is in contravention of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. PDF >
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
August 12, 1949
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, signed by 195 states including Israel. Declares, in part, that an "Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territories it occupies". Read Document >