On this day in 1967, the Israeli Army occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, claiming emergency powers with a military decree that greatly restricts the rights of the occupied. The ongoing occupation is the longest in the modern era.
The Israeli Army action took place in the context of the Six Day War, fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states. The status of the West Bank as a militarily occupied territory has been affirmed by the International Court of Justice and, with the exception of East Jerusalem, by the Israeli Supreme Court.
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the military proclamation issued by the Israeli Army on June 7th, 1967 permitted the application of the Defense (Emergency) Regulations of 1945.
These regulations empowered, and continue to empower, authorities to declare as an "unlawful association" groups that advocate for "bringing into hatred or contempt, or the exciting of disaffection against" the authorities, and criminalize membership in or possession of material belonging to or affiliated, even indirectly, with these groups.
HRW goes on to state that these and other broad restrictions on the occupied population violate international law: "The Israeli army has for over 50 years used broadly worded military orders to arrest Palestinian journalists, activists and others for their speech and activities - much of it non-violent - protesting, criticizing or opposing Israeli policies. These orders are written so broadly that they violate the obligation of states under international human rights law to clearly spell out conduct that could result in criminal sanction."
Following the military occupation of the West Bank, Israel began expropriating the land and facilitating Israeli settlements in the area, broadly considered a violation of international law. While Israelis in the West Bank are subject to Israeli law and given representation in the Israeli Knesset, Palestinian civilians, mostly confined to scattered enclaves, are subject to martial law and are not permitted to vote in Israel's national elections.
This two-tiered system has inspired comparisons to apartheid, likening the dense disconnected pockets that Palestinians are relegated to with the segregated Bantustans that previously existed in South Africa when the country was still under white supremacist rule.
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Is it illegal to use digital comms over ham bands?
Nahh, it's quite popular even
The APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) being the most popular digital mode. It's primitive (every APRS node speaks the in the same way as this modem from the 70s lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_202_modem) but reliable enough that even in areas without WiFi or cell service you can still stay in contact with people, send e-mails, text messages, get weather reports, etc.
It could be much better though, the (extremely slow) AFSK modulation that this protocol runs over breaks down quite quickly in weak signal conditions, multipath radio propagation (same signal taking multiple paths to the same destination causing destructive interference or delays), etc. Not to mention the APRS is basically a bunch of local networks linked together via the big Internet (the one we're on rn) via certain APRS nodes being connected to the APRS-IS (APRS Internet System) with little long-distance routing possible beyond that. The APRS is basically a source-routed (as in: the sender of packets specifies how they should be routed)... uhh... broadcast network (other APRS nodes will forward your packet for you by broadcasting it over radio). APRS nodes forwarding packets have no knowledge of the wider network. By default, they just forward your packet a certain number of hops. Someone could probably figure out a long direct route to wherever they want (as long as it's on the same continent) but usually most people just hope their packets reach an APRS-IS node before they run out of hops.
I hope that makes sense, sorry I just started writing for some reason lol. Wikipedia has a decent article if you wanna know more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System
There are other packet-routed networks on the ham bands but they aren't so popular sadly
Also it's called the Automatic PACKET Reporting System but it doesn't really route packets tbh, just complete messages (no fragmentation or reassembly happening) so it's really more of a message-routed network in practice
Edit: I forgot to mention: many satellites (or.... at least a few... a lot of them have broken down in the last few years) including the International Space Station carry internet-connected APRS stations, so even if you're truly in the middle of nowhere you should still be able to stay in contact via those (including sending your location), no commercial satellite subscription and proprietary radio required