The Protection of cultural properties in Jerusalem in the light of International Law

In this study, dealing with the researcher subject of international legal protection of cultural property in Jerusalem, where there are problematic in this study on the adequacy of the protection provided by international conventions of cultural property, and the effectiveness of methods used to provide such protection, and the amount of harmonization of national laws in Palestine with international conventions on the protection of cultural property , also looking at the responsibility of the Israeli occupation for violations of cultural property in Jerusalem and the legality of its decisions and actions annexation of Jerusalem and change its cultural, in order to explain these questions followed the researcher approaches descriptive analytical and applied, divided the study into three chapters and smoothed UNESDOC about the concept and the emergence of cultural property. Dealt with in the first chapter the general legal provisions for the protection of cultural property divided them into those applied in times of peace and war and occupation, in addition to special protection and enhanced protection. In the second section of the chapter looked at the effectiveness of the internationalization of the protection of cultural property in Jerusalem by searching the resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council and UNESCO in Jerusalem. The second chapter devoted to the research and means of international protection and the role played by the most important international organizations in this protection, which was covered in the first section, while eating Section II national means for the protection of cultural property in Jerusalem, and the role of national institutions in it. The third chapter handled the legal responsibility for the violation of the protection of cultural property and the legal implications or the consequences of the provisions of the general protection of cultural property in terms of restitution, compensation, and the statement of the provisions and sanctions for violating international resolutions on the protection of cultural property in Jerusalem, and the statement of sanctions resulting from the violation and violation of the general provisions of international and national protection of cultural property, and then concluded the researcher studied and concluded a set of results that show the inadequacy of the legal rules in providing the necessary protection of cultural property in the face of cultural property in Jerusalem, in particular, also showed lack of consistency and harmonization between the laws national force in Palestine and the provisions of the General Legal Protection of Cultural Property, as I explained the illegality and invalidity of decisions and actions taken by the Israeli occupation in Jerusalem and efforts to change the legal status of the city and change its cultural, guilty of this war crime bears responsibility for criminal according to international law, as discussed researcher in determining judicial authority having jurisdiction into these violations and crimes in accordance with the provisions of international laws and conventions on the protection of cultural property.