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"Assigned Residence," Not "Deportation"
(Jerusalem Post) Dan Izenberg - Neither the army nor the court refers to a forced move as a deportation, but as an "assigned residence," in keeping with the terminology of Article 78 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which recognizes the right to hold members of the occupied population in administrative detention or force them to move to another part of the same territory. The High Court of Justice has already approved in principle the army's right to force Palestinians living in the West Bank to move to the Gaza Strip, but each individual case must be examined on its merits. On September 3, 2002, a nine-justice panel ruled that the West Bank and Gaza Strip are one entity and that forcing residents of one to move to the other is legal according to Article 78.