NEWS
CASE UPDATES
15 August 2015
Petitions for freedom of Employment
We are now accepting new petitions on behalf of Palestinians who are prevented entry into Israeli by the Israeli Secret Service and Police. We will serve new petitions to the Israeli Supreme Court and the Israeli district court of Jerusalem More details will be published soon when we file the new cases.
15 July 2015
Success in the Supreme Court
Following extensive legal proceedings in the Israeli Supreme court we successfully challenge the Israeli Secret Service and obtained the required evidence to overrule a
restriction of movement and employment of a Palestinian resident of the West Bank.
15 June 2014
Refuseniks in Prison
We are representing Israeli refuseniks who served time in 'Prison Six' (Confinement Base 396), for their refusal to serve in the Israeli army.
19 August 2014
Contesting practices of Settler Factories in the West Bank
We have obtained evidence regarding human rights violations of Israeli factories in the West Bank and assisted in the compilation of an advisory opinion to be used in an international legal action.
5 August 2015
Activists & Dissidents abroad
We promoted Israeli refuseniks and dissidents internationally, enabling them to forge links with Palestinians and activists abroad, in order to bolster their efforts to oppose occupation and apartheid practices from within.
10 April 2015
Visa to Europe
For over a year we advocated for and represented a Palestinian activist who was denied a Visa to Europe. In early September 2014 we appealed to the Italian Consulate in Jerusalem on his behalf. in early 2015 we joined forces to obtain the international support for his trip abroad which included a speaking tour about his activism. We consistently work in conjunction with him and his family to support his activism and non-violent resistance in the West Bank.
1 December 2014
Supporting Ex-Prisoners
We represented three Palestinian ex-prisoners from the area of Hebron (Al-Khalil). We obtained evidence from the Israeli Military Court System regarding their cases so they can attain international recognition as political prisoners.
LATEST NEWS
15 August 2015
The IDF's new tool for tracking Palestinian protesters: Drones
Participants in the weekly protests against the separation wall in theWest Bank village of Bil’in were surprised Friday to find that the army was using a new tool to put down the demonstrations. For the first time, a small drone equipped with four propellors and a camera hovered above the protesters as they marched toward the wall and chanted slogans.
Click here to read the full article at at 972 wesite
14 August 2015
Self-defense patrols form in West Bank as PA fails to protect Palestinians
Since the settler firebombing that burned alive eighteen-month-old Ali Dawabshe and killed his father Sa’ad, Palestinians in Duma and other villages have formed night patrol groups to confront settler incursions. Unarmed, they have no means to repel settlers who have the full backing of the Israeli military.
Click here to read the full article at the Mondoweiss website
13 August 2015
Israeli company cuts off water for northern West Bank cities
The Mekorot Israeli water company on Wednesday has cut the water supply to some areas in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA) said.
Click here to read the full article at the Palestine News Network website
19 June 2015
Palestinian drivers pay the price as Israeli police patrol West Bank
To travel the one-hour trip from Ramallah to Bethlehem, drivers have to pass through a total of five different regulating authorities
Click here to read the full article at the Middle East Eye website
17 April 2015
Slow violence, cold violence – Teju Cole on East Jerusalem
Why the viciousness of modern Israeli law directed against Palestinians must be taken as seriously as the cruelties of war
Click here to read the full article at Guardian wesite
15 September 2014
How do you stop Palestinians unionizing? Cancel their entry permits
An Israeli employer of Palestinians inside a West Bank settlement, with the help of Israeli authorities, is exploiting the military permit regime in order stop his workers from unionizing, a High Court petition alleges.
Click here to read the full article at at 972 wesite
12 September 2014
‘Any Palestinian is exposed to monitoring by the Israeli Big Brother’
Testimonies from people who worked in the Israeli Intelligence Corps tell of a system where there were no boundaries.
Click here to read the full article at the Guardian website
11 September 2012
Roundtable on Occupation Law: Part of the Conflict or Part of the Solution?
September 2011 marks a historic juncture in the struggle for Palestinian self-determination, as the Palestinian leadership approaches the United Nations with an application for membership into the community of nations as a state. This move is rife with potential implications, including a shift from bilateralism to multilateralism and an insistence on the applicability of international law. At its best, this would signal a welcome move away from the past two decades of bilateral negotiations, which have subjected non-negotiable rights as well as provisions of occupation law to political contestation. However, even this best-case scenario is neither guaranteed, as indicated by the lack of a more robust strategy on the part of the Palestinian leadership, nor necessarily optimal...
Click here to read the full article at the Jadaliyya website
