PALESTINE’S LEGAL SCENE –Issue. 105

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

| 2-8 January 2022

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

• The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs (CDA) warns of the seriousness of the health condition of the prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash and calls on the International Committee of the Red Cross and all human rights institutions to assume their responsibilities. (Jan. 2, 2022).For further details, click here
• Health Minister Mai Al-Kaila confirms that the occupation deliberately neglects medical treatment of the prisoners, and that silence in the prisoners’ cause means inevitable death for them.(Jan. 2, 2022).For further details, click here
• MOFAE calls on the international community to intervene quickly to pressure the Israeli government to release the prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash.(Jan. 2, 2022).For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Bar Association calls for the release of the prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash and stresses that administrative detention is an ongoing crime against humanity.(Jan. 4, 2022).For further details, click here
• CDA holds the Israeli government fully responsible for the life of the sick prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid and for the lives of the other sick prisoners, calling on all human rights institutions to immediately intervene to protect the prisoner.(Jan. 5, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Authority warns of the repercussions of the US suspension of reopening the consulate in Jerusalem.(Jan. 5, 2022). For further details, click here
• Palestinian presidency warns of the ongoing daily killings targeting Palestinians, the latest of which was the killing of the young man Bakir Muhammad Hashash and the young Mustafa Yassin Flanh.(Jan. 6, 2022). For further details, click here

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

• The Israeli army issues an order to demolish the home of Palestinian Fadi Abu Shkhaydam in Jerusalem.(Jan. 3, 2022).For further details, click here
• The local committee for planning and construction of the Jerusalem Municipality approves plans to build 3,557 new settlement units.(Jan. 5, 2022).For further details, click here

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

• A US senator calls for a re-investigation into the assassination of a Palestinian activist in the United States of America, who was accused of killing by settlers in the eighties of the last century.(Jan. 2, 2022). For further details, click here
• Iranian Foreign Minister: Zionism has no place in the world’s future.(Jan. 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Organization of Islamic Cooperation expresses its deep concern over the critical health condition of the prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash.(Jan. 4, 2022). For further details, click here
• Democratic US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib demands an end to the detention of the prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash.(Jan. 3, 2022).For further details, click here
• The European Union condemns administrative detention and expresses its deep concern over the health condition of prisoner Abu Hawash.(Jan. 3, 2022).For further details, click here
• The Secretary-General of the Arab Lawyers Union condemns the arrest of 4 Palestinians by Israeli forces in separate parts of Jerusalem.(Jan. 4, 2022).For further details, click here
• The Jordanian king meets with the Israeli defense minister and stresses the need to maintain a comprehensive calm in the Palestinian territories and to take all necessary steps towards that.(Jan. 5, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemns the Israeli occupation’s approval of the construction of 3,557 new settlement units in the occupied Palestinian territories. (Jan. 7, 2022).For Further details, click here

Human rights conferences and events

• Thousands of Americans and human rights activists in the United States are calling, through an online petition, to support the immediate release of detainee Hisham Abu Hawash.(Jan. 3, 2022).For further details, click here
• The Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” calls on Israel to stop administrative detentions against Palestinians.(Jan. 4, 2022). For further details, click here