Press Releases

(Bethlehem, 30 April 2026)

The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights releases its new brochure, “The Israeli Apartheid Spatial Regime: Fragmentation and Enclavement of Palestine.” Based on BADIL’s Working Paper #33, the brochure explains how the Israeli regime’s system of spatial apartheid has evolved into a structured policy of “enclaving,” fragmenting Palestinian land and people into isolated enclaves at both regional and local levels.

Available in English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese, it provides this core analysis in a brief, accessible format for activists, civil society organizations, researchers, and solidarity networks. It shows how Israeli spatial apartheid undermines territorial continuity and political presence, aiming to dismantle any unified Palestinian political body, thereby preventing collective agency and denying the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights to self-determination and return.

Drawing parallels with the bantustan system of Apartheid South Africa, it demonstrates how fragmentation operates as a governing principle that presents domination as limited autonomy while entrenching exclusion, dispossession, and displacement. By tracing the evolving policies and structures of fragmentation and enclaving, reinforced through the “Decisive Plan” and Trump’s 20-point plan, the brochure highlights how long-standing settler-colonial practices are being consolidated into a comprehensive regime of subjugation.

Designed as a practical tool for mobilization and accountability, the brochure outlines the urgent need for action as Israeli spatial apartheid policies continue to reshape Palestinian life. It calls on states, legal actors, and solidarity movements to take the necessary practical measures to end complicity, impose sanctions and activate accountability mechanisms to ensure the Palestinian people’s rights to self-determination and return.