PALESTINE’S LEGAL SCENE – Issue. 95

Your weekly survey of the most important publications and activities related to Palestine and law, from local and international sources

24-30 Oct 2021

Issued every Sunday by Law for Palestine

This weekly report reviews the legal dynamics of the Palestine question, and everything related to international law and Palestine. The report includes an account of the most important publications, activities and conferences related to Palestine at the local, regional, international levels. The report further covers decisions, decrees, and judicial orders affecting the Palestinian cause, whether made at the official, academic or public levels. The report aims to be a reference for monitoring, documenting and archiving the latest human rights developments related to Palestine, and to present them to individuals, researchers, study centers, and official, academic and legal institutions concerned.

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Judicial decrees, decisions, positions, and orders issued by official Palestinian bodies

• PLO’s Department of Human Rights and Civil Society: Israel’s decision to designate six human rights and civil society organizations as terrorist organizations is a new violation of human rights in the oPt (Oct. 23, 2021). For further details, click here
• CDA: hearing of escaped prisoners and five others postponed to 8^th of next month (Oct. 24, 2021). For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE: launching tenders to construct new settlement units another blow to U.S. administration credibility (Oct. 24, 2021). For further details, click here
• Permanent Observer Missions of State of Palestine in Geneva sends urgent letters to international organizations regarding the rise in Israeli Violations (Oct. 25, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem Affairs warns against alarming Israeli escalation against Jerusalem’s residents and sites (Oct. 25, 2021). For further details, click here
• PNC calls on international parliaments to exert pressure on Israeli Knesset to stop enforcement of pro-occupation laws and covering of violations against Palestinians (Oct. 24, 2021). For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE: Annexation of West Bank lands is final test for international position on two-state solution (Oct. 25, 2021). For further details, click here
• Head of CDA calls on international community to immediately intervene to save lives of hunger striking prisoners (Oct. 26, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian Minister of Education: Israeli incitement against Palestinian curricula doomed to fail (Oct. 26, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian PM calls on EU countries to tie aid to Israel to respect for two-state solution and end of occupation (Oct. 26, 2021). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian PM calls on Belgium to recognize the State of Palestine to achieve the two-state solution. (Oct.26, 2021)For further details, click here
• The Palestinian MOFAE stresses that protecting two-state solution requires imposing international deterrent penalties on the occupying state (Oct 26, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian PM briefed Arab ambassadors to Belgium and EU on latest political developments and Israeli violations, called for collective action to achieve two-state solution (Oct. 27, 2021). For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE: international community’s inability to protect cultural and social activities in Jerusalem calls into question its ability to preserve two-state solution (Oct. 27, 2021). For further details, click here
• Palestinian presidency condemns Israel’s approval for 3,144 settlement units in West Bank (Oct. 27, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE: Settlement building closes door to political solution for conflict, opens door for alternatives (Oct. 27, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian PM calls on EU to exert pressure on Israel to abide by agreements singed with PA, to stop settlement expansion in oPt (Oct. 27, 2021).For further details, click here
• CDA: Israel reinstates administrative detention of hunger striker prisoner Kayed al-Fasfous for 107 consecutive days (Oct. 29, 2021). For further details, clickhere
• The Commission of Detainees Affairs takes a foreign tour to internationalize the issue of detainees, to address the policy of administrative detention, and to end their suffering, especially the sick ones. (Oct. 30, 2021). For further details, click here

Judicial decrees, decisions, positions, and orders issued by official Israeli bodies

• Israel confirmed administrative detention of hunger striking prisoner Shadi Abu Aker (Oct. 24, 2021).For further details, click here
• Israel advances tenders for constructing 1,355 settlement units in the West Bank (Oct. 25, 2021).For further details, clickhere
• Israel approved building of 3,000 settlement units in the West Bank (Oct. 28, 2021).For further details, clickhere

Judicial decrees, decisions, positions, and orders issued by Arab, European, and international bodies

• Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns Israel’s plan to build 3,100 new settlement units (Oct. 23, 2021).For further details, click here
• Jordanian MOFAE warns against building new settlement units, calls it a breach of international law (Oct. 24, 2021).For further details, click here
• UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland: All settlements are illegal and constitute an obstacle to peace and must stop immediately (Oct. 24, 2021).For further details, click here
• The Arab League stresses illegality of Israeli settlements established on occupied territories, calls on the international community to follow international law on the issue (Oct. 26, 2021).For further details, click here
• Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemns Israel’s arbitrary designation of six Palestinian civil society institutions as terrorist organizations (Oct. 25, 2021).For further details, click here
• EU: Settlements are illegal under international law and an obstacle to achieving the two-state solution (Oct. 25, 2021).For further details, click here
• A UN expert on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories calls for a “brave” new approach aimed at ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine (Oct. 25, 2021). For further details, click here
• France calls on Israel to explain designation of six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organizations, expresses concern (Oct. 25, 2021).For further details, click here
• EU spokesperson for Middle East: EU will continue to stand by international law, support civil society organizations to improve human rights and democratic values (Oct. 26, 2021).For further details, click here
• Egyptian Foreign Ministry reaffirms illegality of Israeli settlements (Oct. 26, 2021).For further details, click here
• France condemns Israel’s plan to build new settlement units on West Bank land, calls it a threat to peace prospects in the region (Oct. 26, 2021).For further details, click here
• Saudi Cabinet affirms Kingdom’s firm stance in support of Palestinian cause (Oct. 26, 2021).For further details, click here
• OCHR: Israel’s decision to designate organizations as terrorist organizations is an unjustified attack on Palestinian civil society. (Oct. 26, 2021) For further details, click here
• Egyptian and Romanian presidents affirm importance of just solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Oct. 27, 2021). For further details, click here
• Arab Parliament calls on international community to stop Israeli plans to build new settlement units (Oct 27, 2021). For further details, click here
• Jordan condemns Israeli authorities’ approval to build 3,144 new settlement units (Oct 27, 2021). For further details, click here
• UN committee on exercise of inalienable rights of Palestinian people calls on Israel to respect right to freedom of assembly, to swiftly reverse decision to designate Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organizations (Oct. 27, 2021).For further details, clickhere
• Japan deplores continued settlement activity, calls on Israel to freeze the decision (Oct. 28, 2021). For further details, click here
• The UK calls on Israel to reverse its decision to build new settlements in the West Bank (Oct. 28, 2021). For further details, click here
• OIC condemns Israel’s approval to construct thousands of settlement units in the West Bank (Oct. 28, 2021). For further details, click here
• 12 European states call on Israel in a joint statement to reverse plans to build 3,000 new settlement units in the West Bank (Oct. 28, 2021).For further details, clickhere
• EU: We will not recognize changes made to oPt’s 1967 borders; settlements are obstacle to peace(Oct. 29, 2021).For further details, clickhere

Publications of human rights NGOs

• Peace Now: Current Israeli government continues Netanyahu’s policy of annexation (Oct. 24, 2021).For further details, click here
• 500 international academics assert: criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic in a letter addressed to the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom (Oct. 25, 2021).For further details, clickhere
• ActionAid Institution condemns Israel’s decision to label six Palestinian human rights groups as ‘terrorist organizations’ (Oct. 26, 2021). For further details, click here
• Detainees and human rights groups : Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian organizations as terrorists is an extremist decision and a blatant violation (Oct. 25, 2021).For further details, click here
• Al Mezan Center for Human Rights issues a report entitled “The targeting of residential towers is a continuous violation of IHL” (Oct. 27, 2021).For further details, click here
• ITUC condemns Israel’s designation of Palestinian human rights organizations as “terrorists”. (Oct. 29, 2021). For further details, click here

Human rights conferences and events

•  A race was organized in two American cities to collect funds for refugee children who lost their hearing in West Bank camps (Oct. 25, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (MADAR) organizes seminar titled “Jerusalem land settlement project (2018-2025) – Israeli government’s decision 3790,” stresses illegality under international law (Oct. 28, 2021).For further details, click here
• CDA organizes solidarity stand with hunger striker prisoners and protest closure of national institutions in Nablus (Oct. 27, 2021). For further details, click here
• Large scale online campaign on social media to reject Israeli authorities’ decision to designate six Palestinian human rights organization as terrorists (Oct. 28, 2021).For further details, click here