Who polices the West bank and the Gaza strip?So The west bank and Gaza Strip is Palestinian land yes? So who polices it? I mean who keeps "Law and Order" If there is murder, rape there who takes care of it? and if someone (hypothetical) attacked them, lets say, Martians, who would defend them? If the IDF does the policing how is that possible... | |
Hello, you deleted an answer before while I was typing the answer. So firstly I will include the answer to it here.
--{{=This is Huwaida Arraf, an American born to Palestinian parents, her mother is Palestinian and her father is an Israeli citizen. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. majored in Arabic and Judaic studies and spent a year in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, learning hebrew on a kibbutz.
She is not your classic Palestinian girl.
This does not happen daily in the territories (I was a soldier there for almost four years). But demonstrations like what this woman (not a girl, she is 34 years old) is doing are more typical of Israeli left wing organizations such as B'tzelem and others.=}}--
As for the current question.
The policing force in the West bank is the Palestinian Authority, or the PA. The policing force in the Gaza strip is Hamas.
The Israeli military is occupying the West Bank to prevent what it calls destructive activity. Which is the attacks on Israeli citizens.
Israel cannot simply get up and leave, leaving a void behind. This has been done as a test in Gaza in 2005 and did not create peace or even bring peace closer in any way. The only way to create peace is through negotiation and mutual agreements. The Israeli military has been occupying the West Bank since the six day war and Israel's stance today is clear that through negotiation they will withdraw from the West Bank only when a Palestinian state will be founded that will accept Israel's right to exist.
As for the last part of the question. As a soldier I had to protect Palestinians as well as Israelis. This, though, is problematic, as there is no clear rule. Some Israeli soldiers understand they only need to protect Israelis and other Israeli soldiers understand they have to protect everybody regardless.
Additional details:
Here is a list and a map of areas administered by the Palestinian Authority:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cit...
This area of Hebron is probably not administered by the Palestinian Authority since its an area where Israelis live.
The Jewish children and teen that came down kept telling the people to stop filming them because its sabbath, I dont know if it has anything to do with why they were throwing stones (which in itself is breaking the sabbath).
Notice that the soldiers and policemen were standing in between the Palestinians and the Israelis there.
As a former soldier - It is very difficult to administer and stop a gathering like this. One of the two sides, either Palestinians or Israelis will start throwing rocks and the other, if the soldiers go in guns blazing, shouting and yelling trying to disperse the crowd it usually only attracts more attention which brings more people in there an helps fuel the fire. The best way is to get the non violent side to disperse for about 10 or 20 minutes and then get the violent side to disperse peacefully, after which the non violent side can come back and usually there are no more problems. This is how we usually did it to prevent more huge crowding and violent demonstrations.
The usual demonstrations where you see the soldiers firing tear gas, rubber bullets and mock rounds in the air are demonstrations where one side (usually Palestinians) is attacking the soldiers rather than the Israelis.
As for the Palestinian Authority, it does not work against the IDF but together with the IDF. The Israeli police provides training and the IDF provides intelligence to the PA and the PA provides intelligence to both the IDF and the Israeli police.
If you are genuinely trying to understand.......
1. Internal Palestinian law enforcement is the PA. Palestinian Authority.
2. IDF Soldiers do guard communities in the West Bank. They also aid the PA in it's battle against terrorists. It is in nobodies interest to have terror attacks in Israel there is a good deal of cooperation on this issue.
3.The IDF tries to be impartial in skirmishes between Palestinians and radical right wing settlers. There are often reports of the IDF clashing with settlers.
4. With regard to Hebron. It is in fact the city with the longest continual Jewish community in Israel. Hebron is indeed one of the MOST important historical places for Jew that there is. The Jews who live there today tend to be on the far right and tend towards violence. If you can ignore this for just a second. You do need to understand the importance of the place.
5. The West Bank is NOT Palestine. It is a small part of the British Madate of Palestine which includes all of Israel and Jordan. It belongs to no-one at the moment. One day the majority will become a Palestinian State. Some of the ISraeli Settlements will remain and there will be compromise on both sides. Until then it is false to call it Palestine and claim that it therefore has some national status. Again, the same argument could be used for all of Jordan.
The Palestinian National Authority is the administrative organization established to govern parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian National Authority was formed in 1994, pursuant to the Oslo Accords between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the government of Israel, as a five-year interim body, during which final status negotiations between the two parties were to take place. As of 2010, more than fifteen years following the formulation of the PNA, a final status has yet to be reached. According to the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority was designated to have control over both security-related and civilian issues in Palestinian urban areas (referred to as "Area A"), and only civilian control over Palestinian rural areas ("Area B"). The remainder of the territories, including Israeli settlements, the Jordan Valley region, and bypass roads between Palestinian communities, were to remain under exclusive Israeli control ("Area C"). East Jerusalem was excluded from the Accords.
Hello. There is no such thing as Jewish settler in Palestine, that you speak of.
There is no such thing as Palestine, never was, it was a region defunct with the creation of Jordan and Israel.
Jewish people are not settlers in the West Bank area, which is a generic name commonly spoken to erase Jewish presence. The actual name is Judea and Samaria region of Israel. Israel won that land in war that the Arabs waged. There is also an East bank, and that is in Jordan.
Now, that I have your attention. The Palestinian Authority polices the fellow Arabs with additional help from the IDF, of which they've asked for help to contain the terrorist in their midst on occasions.
This is i"D"F signature:
"Gladly kill Arabs - Even Slaughter Them".
You see, If Abu Mazen dared to fully adopt this policy instead of the current partial, Palestine would have been free by now.
