Palestinian occupation is a necropolitical regime merging siege and biopower

Evidence

For Mbembe, the colonial occupation of contemporary Palestine by Israel has created one such death-world. … As the Palestinian case illustrates, late-modern colonial occupation is a concatenation of multiple powers: disciplinary, biopolitical, and necropolitical. The combination of the three allocates to the colonial power an absolute domination over the inhabitants of the occupied territory. The state of siege is itself a military institution. It allows a modality of killing that does not distinguish between the external and the internal enemy. Entire populations are the target of the sovereign. The besieged villages and towns are sealed off and cut off from the world. Daily life is militarized. Freedom is given to local military commanders to use their discretion as to when and whom to shoot. Movement between the territorial cells requires formal permits. Local civil institutions are systematically destroyed. The besieged population is deprived of their means of income. Invisible killing is added to outright executions. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 201

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete checklist of how the siege institution operationalizes Mbembe’s necropolitics across everyday life.
• XREF: Material basis grounding the earlier claim from ch9 that Mbembe’s necropolitics describes living-dead populations.