# Contested concept: occupation

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- **Contestedness**: criterion
- **Diagnosis**: Contested by omission: the term is load-bearing here and does not appear once in the opposing text. A concept can be contested by one party's silence, which the contested-concept pass would see only on one side.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/occupation` (data: `/concept/occupation.json`)

## Senses in use
- **A continuing legal status established by effective control, entailing duties toward the occupied population and disabling recourse to Article 51** — used in 4 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [In 2007 Israel declared the Gaza Strip a hostile entity and waged war upon a territory over which it continues to exercise effective contro…](/claim/claim_09ec977c7197.md) _(sense: A continuing legal status established by effective control, entailing duties toward the occupied population and disabling recourse to Article 51)_
- [Military occupation is a recognised status under international law.](/claim/claim_39d2ac5ec255.md) _(sense: A continuing legal status established by effective control, entailing duties toward the occupied population and disabling recourse to Article 51)_
- [Because Israel exercises effective control over the West Bank and Gaza, it has recourse to police powers there.](/claim/claim_7022a3238023.md) _(sense: A continuing legal status established by effective control, entailing duties toward the occupied population and disabling recourse to Article 51)_
- [Where an occupation is already in place, the right to initiate militarised force in response to an armed attack is not available to the occ…](/claim/claim_bf15ef8207f2.md) _(sense: A continuing legal status established by effective control, entailing duties toward the occupied population and disabling recourse to Article 51)_