24 jan 2018
Israeli ministerial committee for legislation will again bring to discussion the bill that bans the Adhan (call for prayer) via loud speakers from mosques. The law will be voted on in the Knesset by the first hearing.
Accelerating the legislation of the law was made upon request of the Israeli government as a kind of retaliation of the Arab MKs who boycotted the speech of the US Vice President Mike Pence. They raised photos of Occupied Jerusalem, al-Aqsa Mosque, and al-Qiama church in the Knesset. Video
The parliamentary constitution committee is going to hold, next Wednesday, the first session to discuss the draft law and present it before the Knesset for voting.
The Adhan ban bill seeks to impose limits on the Muslim call to prayer within the Green Line and Occupied Jerusalem. It prevents the use of loudspeakers by mosques in the night and dawn hours.
Accelerating the legislation of the law was made upon request of the Israeli government as a kind of retaliation of the Arab MKs who boycotted the speech of the US Vice President Mike Pence. They raised photos of Occupied Jerusalem, al-Aqsa Mosque, and al-Qiama church in the Knesset. Video
The parliamentary constitution committee is going to hold, next Wednesday, the first session to discuss the draft law and present it before the Knesset for voting.
The Adhan ban bill seeks to impose limits on the Muslim call to prayer within the Green Line and Occupied Jerusalem. It prevents the use of loudspeakers by mosques in the night and dawn hours.
22 jan 2018
The Israeli occupation authorities on Monday issued orders to demolish and evacuate Palestinian structures in Bethlehem province.
Hasan Brijiyah, from the Popular Anti-Settlement Committee, said an Israeli patrol showed up in Khilet al-Nakhla and handed over a Palestinian family a notification to evacuate their land tract, covering an area of 45 dunums, after they declared it “state property”.
Another Palestinian citizen—Mohamed Ayesh—received an order to stop the construction of a water well on his land lot under the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Sometime earlier, an Israeli court confirmed Brijiya’s ownership of the land, after Israeli settlers tried to seize it, added Ayesh.
The activist warned of the swift pace of Israel’s demolition policies throughout the West Bank, which he said have been remarkably nurtured by the U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, among other unilateral moves made at the expense of Palestinian rights.
Hasan Brijiyah, from the Popular Anti-Settlement Committee, said an Israeli patrol showed up in Khilet al-Nakhla and handed over a Palestinian family a notification to evacuate their land tract, covering an area of 45 dunums, after they declared it “state property”.
Another Palestinian citizen—Mohamed Ayesh—received an order to stop the construction of a water well on his land lot under the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Sometime earlier, an Israeli court confirmed Brijiya’s ownership of the land, after Israeli settlers tried to seize it, added Ayesh.
The activist warned of the swift pace of Israel’s demolition policies throughout the West Bank, which he said have been remarkably nurtured by the U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, among other unilateral moves made at the expense of Palestinian rights.
The Israeli ministerial committee for legislation on Sunday gave the Knesset its approval to discuss a bill allowing the security authorities to detain bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire.
The Knesset will table the bill for a vote in its first reading during the current week, according to the Hebrew media.
Israel’s intent to enact such legislation came after the higher court of justice issued a verdict last December banning the government from detaining the bodies of slain Palestinians unless there was a law allowing this.
The Knesset will table the bill for a vote in its first reading during the current week, according to the Hebrew media.
Israel’s intent to enact such legislation came after the higher court of justice issued a verdict last December banning the government from detaining the bodies of slain Palestinians unless there was a law allowing this.
18 jan 2018
Israel’s high court of justice is expected on Thursday to look into a request asking to allow Jewish settlers to enter the Aqsa Mosque through all its gates and not only al-Maghariba Gate.
The request, which was filed by Israeli right-wing political parties and settler groups, also asked for allowing Jewish settlers to perform rituals inside the Mosque compound.
In this regard, director of the Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the Aqsa Mosque belongs to Muslims alone and is not subject to Israeli laws.
Sheikh Kiswani underlined that the Aqsa Mosque with all its premises and walls is an Islamic holy site under the management and jurisdiction of the Islamic Awqaf Authority in Occupied Jerusalem, which is affiliated with Jordan’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
The request, which was filed by Israeli right-wing political parties and settler groups, also asked for allowing Jewish settlers to perform rituals inside the Mosque compound.
In this regard, director of the Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the Aqsa Mosque belongs to Muslims alone and is not subject to Israeli laws.
Sheikh Kiswani underlined that the Aqsa Mosque with all its premises and walls is an Islamic holy site under the management and jurisdiction of the Islamic Awqaf Authority in Occupied Jerusalem, which is affiliated with Jordan’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
17 jan 2018
Israel’s outgoing chief archivist warned that most of the contents of Israeli archives, which include war crimes and human rights violations, is closed and will never be opened.
According to Lazovik, Israelis have committed war crimes.
The Shin Bet security service was involved in education in the Arab sector; Israel treated its Arab (and other) citizens in a manner that doesn’t dignify a self-proclaimed democratic entity.
He added that among three million files shelved in the government archives only 550 have been opened.
In a scathing report issued Monday and published by Haaretz on Wednesday, Yaakov Lazovik summarized the issues faced by the Israel State Archives, which is subordinate to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Lazovik, who announced his retirement eight months after more than six years on the job, said that under the cloak of national security concerns, Israeli government conceals from the public material much of it unrelated to security issues.
This includes material that could prove embarrassing to the government, such as human rights violations.
According to Lazovik, Israelis have committed war crimes.
The Shin Bet security service was involved in education in the Arab sector; Israel treated its Arab (and other) citizens in a manner that doesn’t dignify a self-proclaimed democratic entity.
He added that among three million files shelved in the government archives only 550 have been opened.
According to Lazovik, Israelis have committed war crimes.
The Shin Bet security service was involved in education in the Arab sector; Israel treated its Arab (and other) citizens in a manner that doesn’t dignify a self-proclaimed democratic entity.
He added that among three million files shelved in the government archives only 550 have been opened.
In a scathing report issued Monday and published by Haaretz on Wednesday, Yaakov Lazovik summarized the issues faced by the Israel State Archives, which is subordinate to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Lazovik, who announced his retirement eight months after more than six years on the job, said that under the cloak of national security concerns, Israeli government conceals from the public material much of it unrelated to security issues.
This includes material that could prove embarrassing to the government, such as human rights violations.
According to Lazovik, Israelis have committed war crimes.
The Shin Bet security service was involved in education in the Arab sector; Israel treated its Arab (and other) citizens in a manner that doesn’t dignify a self-proclaimed democratic entity.
He added that among three million files shelved in the government archives only 550 have been opened.
13 jan 2018
Palestinian detainee Israa Jaabis came before the Israeli occupation’s High Court of Justice on Thursday, 11 January in an appeal against her 11-year sentence, noting her severe injuries and poor overall health, with her suffering only intensified due to the conditions in HaSharon prison, where she is held.
Her lawyers have argued that she was subjected to a lengthy, arbitrary sentence with little concern for the reality of the charges against her or her intense pain and suffering.
Jaabis’ case has come to renewed attention on social media as well in the last week, with many activists highlighting #FreeIsraa, #انقذوا_اسراء and #HelpIsraa hashtags in support of her appeal and campaign for her liberation.
The court heard arguments from the defense and prosecution and did not set a date for issuing a decision.
The story of Israa Jaabis is a human tragedy brought about due to occupation, racism, oppression and injustice.
Jaabis, the mother of a 9-year-old child, was seized in October 2015 near the al-Zaim checkpoint at the entrance to Jerusalem. Jaabis holds a Jerusalemite identity card, but lived in the West Bank with her family and her son, who has a West Bank identity card.
Reportedly, she was informed that she would lose her Jerusalem identity unless she moved back to Jerusalem – part of the ongoing and systematic Israeli attempt to erase Palestinian existence in Jerusalem – and was being forced to live apart from her child.
She had rented an apartment in Jabal al-Mukabber and was in the process of moving her basic belongings to the apartment, including a gas cylinder to power a stove.
As she approached the checkpoint, the gas cylinder caught fire after an airbag popped open inside of her vehicle, burning Jaabis severely over 60 percent of her body while the situation was treated as a “terror attack” rather than a medical emergency by the occupation forces on the scene.
Rather than summoning an ambulance, security forces and police were brought to the scene. Despite initial reports that this was a traffic accident, Israeli media then reported that this was an operation targeting Israeli soldiers.
She was imprisoned while hospitalized and charged with “attempted murder” of the Israeli occupation forces at the checkpoint as eight of her fingers were amputated.
Israeli prosecutors alleged that social media posts expressing support of the Palestinian resistance and other political opinions merited this extreme sentence. Her story combines the terror of colonial imprisonment with the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem and the constant violence against Palestinian families, particularly women and children, of Israeli colonialism.
Jaabis issued a message from prison through her sister Mona, translated below, saying that she urgently needs more than eight operations and that she suffers from intense pain and suffering in her hands and feet, especially after the amputation of her fingers, and that she is unable to care for herself properly.
Israa’s message follows:
“As for my health, it is as follows: I have severe cramps in my hands and feet and these prevent me from doing my daily tasks. I need help from other girls to do the simplest things. This hurts me and makes me feel less than others. I feel humiliated and ashamed. And I urgently need to have the operation to relieve these cramps and seizures so that I can do my own daily simple tasks. Since I was arrested, the administration here has always procrastinated. They say that the operation will happen each month, but nothing happens and my situation worsens every day.”
“Every day I look in the mirror and I feel silent and my soul is shattered every day. I need treatment to face this painful reality. I am scared from my face when I look at myself in the mirror. How about others? What does my child say when he sees me? Do you feel scared of me?
Thousands of questions pass through my head every day and I cannot find an answer. I feel scared, humiliated and anxious. I try to help myself, but to no avail.”
“I need treatment, I need surgery so that I can live with this difficult situation…..I must live with these near-fatal injuries and I could live if operations were conducted with humane treatment. Now I cannot even wear a brace which covers the burns because I have a hard time wearing it as it is torn and the prison administration will not help me.”
“I have bleeding in my eye and I feel great pain whenever it is exposed to the air or I wash my eyes with water. I urgently need eye treatment and again there is no answer. My nose was burned from the inside and so I must breathe from my mouth or a very small hole in my nose. My nose bleeds and I receive no treatment although my condition worsens every day.”
“My teeth are very weak, they have broken and I asked for outside treatment. After a long hassle, the management agreed to allow an outside dentist to enter, but he came only once and no longer. I cannot raise my arms up, I have limited movement in my arms because the skin is fused to the armpit, and the management and doctors here are not trying to help me. My feet itch painfully, my right ear is almost non-existent and I often have severe infections. I urgently need an ear operation and everyone ignores the situation.”
“I am very tired of all of this inside, and my permanent need for everything causes me pain. I feel insulted, embarrassed and my situation worsens day after day. May times I shout and scream and erupt about my situation and I need psychological help as well. My psychological state has taken away my desire to eat. I almost do not eat and I do not want to eat. I have so much pressure in my head, and I do not understand what others talk about in front of me, and I lose focus.”
“The administration told me they would prevent me from visits from my son. I am told I have to receive blood tests, but they never happen. I hope everyone reads my message. I’m not a normal prisoner, who only suffers from prison. I suffer from much more than the injustice of the jailer, my condition is very difficult for those who are in their homes, let alone being in prison.”
Her lawyers have argued that she was subjected to a lengthy, arbitrary sentence with little concern for the reality of the charges against her or her intense pain and suffering.
Jaabis’ case has come to renewed attention on social media as well in the last week, with many activists highlighting #FreeIsraa, #انقذوا_اسراء and #HelpIsraa hashtags in support of her appeal and campaign for her liberation.
The court heard arguments from the defense and prosecution and did not set a date for issuing a decision.
The story of Israa Jaabis is a human tragedy brought about due to occupation, racism, oppression and injustice.
Jaabis, the mother of a 9-year-old child, was seized in October 2015 near the al-Zaim checkpoint at the entrance to Jerusalem. Jaabis holds a Jerusalemite identity card, but lived in the West Bank with her family and her son, who has a West Bank identity card.
Reportedly, she was informed that she would lose her Jerusalem identity unless she moved back to Jerusalem – part of the ongoing and systematic Israeli attempt to erase Palestinian existence in Jerusalem – and was being forced to live apart from her child.
She had rented an apartment in Jabal al-Mukabber and was in the process of moving her basic belongings to the apartment, including a gas cylinder to power a stove.
As she approached the checkpoint, the gas cylinder caught fire after an airbag popped open inside of her vehicle, burning Jaabis severely over 60 percent of her body while the situation was treated as a “terror attack” rather than a medical emergency by the occupation forces on the scene.
Rather than summoning an ambulance, security forces and police were brought to the scene. Despite initial reports that this was a traffic accident, Israeli media then reported that this was an operation targeting Israeli soldiers.
She was imprisoned while hospitalized and charged with “attempted murder” of the Israeli occupation forces at the checkpoint as eight of her fingers were amputated.
Israeli prosecutors alleged that social media posts expressing support of the Palestinian resistance and other political opinions merited this extreme sentence. Her story combines the terror of colonial imprisonment with the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem and the constant violence against Palestinian families, particularly women and children, of Israeli colonialism.
Jaabis issued a message from prison through her sister Mona, translated below, saying that she urgently needs more than eight operations and that she suffers from intense pain and suffering in her hands and feet, especially after the amputation of her fingers, and that she is unable to care for herself properly.
Israa’s message follows:
“As for my health, it is as follows: I have severe cramps in my hands and feet and these prevent me from doing my daily tasks. I need help from other girls to do the simplest things. This hurts me and makes me feel less than others. I feel humiliated and ashamed. And I urgently need to have the operation to relieve these cramps and seizures so that I can do my own daily simple tasks. Since I was arrested, the administration here has always procrastinated. They say that the operation will happen each month, but nothing happens and my situation worsens every day.”
“Every day I look in the mirror and I feel silent and my soul is shattered every day. I need treatment to face this painful reality. I am scared from my face when I look at myself in the mirror. How about others? What does my child say when he sees me? Do you feel scared of me?
Thousands of questions pass through my head every day and I cannot find an answer. I feel scared, humiliated and anxious. I try to help myself, but to no avail.”
“I need treatment, I need surgery so that I can live with this difficult situation…..I must live with these near-fatal injuries and I could live if operations were conducted with humane treatment. Now I cannot even wear a brace which covers the burns because I have a hard time wearing it as it is torn and the prison administration will not help me.”
“I have bleeding in my eye and I feel great pain whenever it is exposed to the air or I wash my eyes with water. I urgently need eye treatment and again there is no answer. My nose was burned from the inside and so I must breathe from my mouth or a very small hole in my nose. My nose bleeds and I receive no treatment although my condition worsens every day.”
“My teeth are very weak, they have broken and I asked for outside treatment. After a long hassle, the management agreed to allow an outside dentist to enter, but he came only once and no longer. I cannot raise my arms up, I have limited movement in my arms because the skin is fused to the armpit, and the management and doctors here are not trying to help me. My feet itch painfully, my right ear is almost non-existent and I often have severe infections. I urgently need an ear operation and everyone ignores the situation.”
“I am very tired of all of this inside, and my permanent need for everything causes me pain. I feel insulted, embarrassed and my situation worsens day after day. May times I shout and scream and erupt about my situation and I need psychological help as well. My psychological state has taken away my desire to eat. I almost do not eat and I do not want to eat. I have so much pressure in my head, and I do not understand what others talk about in front of me, and I lose focus.”
“The administration told me they would prevent me from visits from my son. I am told I have to receive blood tests, but they never happen. I hope everyone reads my message. I’m not a normal prisoner, who only suffers from prison. I suffer from much more than the injustice of the jailer, my condition is very difficult for those who are in their homes, let alone being in prison.”
The Settlement Regularization Law allows Israel to ‘legalize’ settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land via de facto expropriation.
The Israeli Supreme Court on 4 December 2017 issued an order nisi (“order to show cause”) in a petition against the Settlement Regularization Law filed by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Gaza) on behalf of 17 local Palestinian authorities in the West Bank.
According to the Settlements Regularization Law [PDF click for English translation of the law], West Bank settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land would be “legalized” by de facto expropriating the land, planning the settlements, and retroactively authorizing the housing already constructed on the land.
The law could legalize about half of Israel’s settlement outposts, as well as about 3,000 additional homes built illegally in settlements recognized as legal by Israel.
Palestinian landowners can receive financial compensation or alternative land, however this law authorizes a further massive land theft of private Palestinian land by the Israeli government.
In her decision, Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut called on the state to explain “Why should it not be determined that the Settlement Regularization Law is invalid in all areas of the West Bank, and that [Israel’s West Bank military commander] is therefore forbidden to act in accordance with the law… and why should it not be determined that the Settlement Regularization Law is null and void since it is unconstitutional.”
The court will hear the petition with an expanded panel of nine justices on 3 June 2018.
Adalah, JLAC, and Al Mezan issued a statement in response to the Supreme Court’s order nisi:
“Given the clear and absolute harm caused to the rights of Palestinian landowners in the occupied territories, it was expected that the Supreme Court should have issued an order nisi much more quickly in this petition.
But to our great dismay, there has not yet been a hearing on this most fundamental of issues which raises serious questions relating to violations of international humanitarian law.”
The Israeli Supreme Court on 4 December 2017 issued an order nisi (“order to show cause”) in a petition against the Settlement Regularization Law filed by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Gaza) on behalf of 17 local Palestinian authorities in the West Bank.
According to the Settlements Regularization Law [PDF click for English translation of the law], West Bank settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land would be “legalized” by de facto expropriating the land, planning the settlements, and retroactively authorizing the housing already constructed on the land.
The law could legalize about half of Israel’s settlement outposts, as well as about 3,000 additional homes built illegally in settlements recognized as legal by Israel.
Palestinian landowners can receive financial compensation or alternative land, however this law authorizes a further massive land theft of private Palestinian land by the Israeli government.
In her decision, Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut called on the state to explain “Why should it not be determined that the Settlement Regularization Law is invalid in all areas of the West Bank, and that [Israel’s West Bank military commander] is therefore forbidden to act in accordance with the law… and why should it not be determined that the Settlement Regularization Law is null and void since it is unconstitutional.”
The court will hear the petition with an expanded panel of nine justices on 3 June 2018.
Adalah, JLAC, and Al Mezan issued a statement in response to the Supreme Court’s order nisi:
“Given the clear and absolute harm caused to the rights of Palestinian landowners in the occupied territories, it was expected that the Supreme Court should have issued an order nisi much more quickly in this petition.
But to our great dismay, there has not yet been a hearing on this most fundamental of issues which raises serious questions relating to violations of international humanitarian law.”
9 jan 2018
The Israeli army filed a lawsuit against the family, and the entire town, of a Palestinian who was crushed to death under a military jeep which flipped over him, after the army invaded Kafr Malek village, east of Ramallah, in central West Bank, in mid-June 2014.
The military is demanding the family of Abdullah Ghanayem (Ghneimat), and his entire town, to pay 95.260 Israeli Shekels, in compensation for damages caused to the military jeep.
The military is demanding the family of Abdullah Ghanayem (Ghneimat), and his entire town, to pay 95.260 Israeli Shekels, in compensation for damages caused to the military jeep.
Ghanayem was crushed by an Israeli military jeep, on June 14, 2015, after the soldiers invaded Kafr Malek.
He remained under the jeep for three hours, and bled to death, after the soldiers prevented medics and rescue teams from helping him.
Now, the Israeli authorities are demanding his family, and his entire village, to pay 95.260 Shekels in compensation, for damages caused to the military jeep.
Israel demands payment from Palestinian martyr's family
A military jeep flipped over the body of Abdullah Ghanayem after he was shot dead by the Israeli army
Israel’s army has demanded $27,000 in compensation for damage to a military vehicle which flipped over a martyred Palestinian's body, Naila Atiyya, the lawyer of the martyr's family, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.
In June 2015, 22-year-old Palestinian activist Abdullah Ghanayem was martyred when Israeli soldiers used live ammunition on Palestinians who struggled against occupying soldiers during a raid in Ramallah's Kafr Malik province. A military jeep trying to go over him flipped onto his dead body, trapping it for four hours under the vehicle.
Ghanayem’s family was shocked by the demand for damages sent by Israel’s army late Monday.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Thursday, Ghanayem’s father called the demand “insolent.”
"They not only murder our children, they also demand compensation for their actions; I wonder if they will demand that we pay for the bullets that kill our children," he said.
He said that Israel is an occupying state that steals Palestinian land and destroys their homes.
"We are the ones who should be asking for compensation,” he added, vowing to fight the demand in local and international courts.
Omar Rahhal, head of the Human Rights and Democracy Media Center (SHAMS), told Anadolu Agency that Israel's demand was "impertinent and shameless."
Saying that Israel took this step in order to prevent Ghanayem’s family from seeking an investigation, Rahhal said the young Palestinian was martyred only a few meters from his house.
He urged the media to expose Israeli human rights violations and added:
"According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Israeli army, which kills civilians, occupies, and exploits Palestinian lands, must pay compensation. Under the same agreement, the occupying force must guard the people who live on the lands where they are present, not kill them."
The convention requires states to ensure the safety of civilians under occupation and forbids collective punishment of a civilian population. Although Israel signed the agreement, it has yet to ratify it.
Israel, for its part, calls the territories it seized in the West Bank and East Jerusalem "disputed" rather than "under occupation".
Israel claims that its actions against Palestinians and establishing Jewish settlements do not violate the agreement.
Palestine accepted the convention in 2014. Video
He remained under the jeep for three hours, and bled to death, after the soldiers prevented medics and rescue teams from helping him.
Now, the Israeli authorities are demanding his family, and his entire village, to pay 95.260 Shekels in compensation, for damages caused to the military jeep.
Israel demands payment from Palestinian martyr's family
A military jeep flipped over the body of Abdullah Ghanayem after he was shot dead by the Israeli army
Israel’s army has demanded $27,000 in compensation for damage to a military vehicle which flipped over a martyred Palestinian's body, Naila Atiyya, the lawyer of the martyr's family, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.
In June 2015, 22-year-old Palestinian activist Abdullah Ghanayem was martyred when Israeli soldiers used live ammunition on Palestinians who struggled against occupying soldiers during a raid in Ramallah's Kafr Malik province. A military jeep trying to go over him flipped onto his dead body, trapping it for four hours under the vehicle.
Ghanayem’s family was shocked by the demand for damages sent by Israel’s army late Monday.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Thursday, Ghanayem’s father called the demand “insolent.”
"They not only murder our children, they also demand compensation for their actions; I wonder if they will demand that we pay for the bullets that kill our children," he said.
He said that Israel is an occupying state that steals Palestinian land and destroys their homes.
"We are the ones who should be asking for compensation,” he added, vowing to fight the demand in local and international courts.
Omar Rahhal, head of the Human Rights and Democracy Media Center (SHAMS), told Anadolu Agency that Israel's demand was "impertinent and shameless."
Saying that Israel took this step in order to prevent Ghanayem’s family from seeking an investigation, Rahhal said the young Palestinian was martyred only a few meters from his house.
He urged the media to expose Israeli human rights violations and added:
"According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Israeli army, which kills civilians, occupies, and exploits Palestinian lands, must pay compensation. Under the same agreement, the occupying force must guard the people who live on the lands where they are present, not kill them."
The convention requires states to ensure the safety of civilians under occupation and forbids collective punishment of a civilian population. Although Israel signed the agreement, it has yet to ratify it.
Israel, for its part, calls the territories it seized in the West Bank and East Jerusalem "disputed" rather than "under occupation".
Israel claims that its actions against Palestinians and establishing Jewish settlements do not violate the agreement.
Palestine accepted the convention in 2014. Video
An Israeli human rights report has revealed that the majority of Israelis are not convicted of attacks committed against Palestinians or Palestinian property, in the occupied territories.
Israel’s Yesh Din: Volunteers for Human Rights issued a report saying that “From the beginning of 2014 to the end of August 2017, Yesh Din monitored 225 new investigation files.”
“At the time of publication, investigation and prosecutorial bodies had completed the processing of 185 of these investigations. Twenty-one (11.4 per cent) of these investigations resulted in indictments, and 118 (64 per cent) were closed under circumstances attesting to police investigative failure,” it added.
The organization did not reveal the result of the other cases.
Yesh Din listed data suggesting the Israeli authorities’ lenience with Israelis attacking Palestinians.
In this regard, the organization said that it monitored over 1,200 investigations into Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2005.
According to the data, only three per cent of investigations regarding ideologically motivated crime against Palestinians have resulted in a conviction.
In addition, only 8.1 per cent of the investigation files monitored by Yesh Din, during this period (94 of 1,163 concluded files), have led to indictments.
Israel’s Yesh Din: Volunteers for Human Rights issued a report saying that “From the beginning of 2014 to the end of August 2017, Yesh Din monitored 225 new investigation files.”
“At the time of publication, investigation and prosecutorial bodies had completed the processing of 185 of these investigations. Twenty-one (11.4 per cent) of these investigations resulted in indictments, and 118 (64 per cent) were closed under circumstances attesting to police investigative failure,” it added.
The organization did not reveal the result of the other cases.
Yesh Din listed data suggesting the Israeli authorities’ lenience with Israelis attacking Palestinians.
In this regard, the organization said that it monitored over 1,200 investigations into Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2005.
According to the data, only three per cent of investigations regarding ideologically motivated crime against Palestinians have resulted in a conviction.
In addition, only 8.1 per cent of the investigation files monitored by Yesh Din, during this period (94 of 1,163 concluded files), have led to indictments.
6 jan 2018
Director of the Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies, Rafat Hamdouna, on Saturday called for confronting Israel's death penalty bill, which was recently approved in the first reading, by working on three different levels.
Hamdouna said in a press statement that legal efforts are needed to protect the Palestinian prisoners' right of self-defense and self-determination, which are supported by the UN General Assembly, and refute the Israeli narrative portraying them as terrorists and criminals.
Hamdouna stressed that it is necessary to cooperate with international groups, human rights organizations, and parliaments to pressure Israel to stop the passage of the bill in its second and third readings.
He added that there is also a need for media efforts to internationalize the prisoners issue, spread their stories in multiple languages and debunk the lies of the Israeli media.
The Palestinian researcher called for popular campaigns and activities to be launched all over the world on the Palestinian, Arab and international levels to expose the Israeli violations committed against the Palestinian people in general and the prisoners in particular.
Hamdouna said in a press statement that legal efforts are needed to protect the Palestinian prisoners' right of self-defense and self-determination, which are supported by the UN General Assembly, and refute the Israeli narrative portraying them as terrorists and criminals.
Hamdouna stressed that it is necessary to cooperate with international groups, human rights organizations, and parliaments to pressure Israel to stop the passage of the bill in its second and third readings.
He added that there is also a need for media efforts to internationalize the prisoners issue, spread their stories in multiple languages and debunk the lies of the Israeli media.
The Palestinian researcher called for popular campaigns and activities to be launched all over the world on the Palestinian, Arab and international levels to expose the Israeli violations committed against the Palestinian people in general and the prisoners in particular.
