For territories to be occupied, they must be occupied from a STATE:
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949
Article 2: ...the present Convention shall apply to all cases of declared war or of any other armed conflict which may arise between two or more of the High Contracting Parties...."
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/7c4d08d9b287a42141256739003e636b/6756482d86146898c125641e004aa3c5?OpenDocument
"High Contracting Parties" mean STATES- not the PLO or some mythical place called "Palestine", which was NEVER a state.
Ergo, legally, Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are not "occupied".
Besides, as we ALL know, with oslo, Judea, samaria, and Gaza were recognized as " a single territorial unit". |
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