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1. Denial of the right to territorial integrity
8. First, the exclusion of Palestinians from any part of the Palestinian territory denies their right to territorial integrity, which is an essential part of the right to self-determination8. The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination within the entirety of their territory.
9. Yet Israel has systematically removed and excluded Palestinians from parts of their territory.It has separated Gaza from the West Bank and prevented the free movement of Palestinians within the Palestinian territory. It has prohibited the return of Palestinians to their homes and property and established exclusionary illegal settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
10. This is especially egregious because many of these almost 700,000 State-supported settlers are continuously terrorizing and forcibly displacing Palestinians from even more of their territory and engaging in pogroms against them.