PALESTINE’S LEGAL SCENE –Issue.107

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

16-22 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

• Palestinian MOFAE condemns the continued targeting of the Jordan Valley by the Israeli occupation authorities and considers it a gradual plan for annexation (Jan. 16, 2022).For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE calls for international intervention to end the crime of the occupation against the Salhia family in Sheikh Jarrah (Jan. 17, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Department of Human Rights and Civil Society in PLO holds the occupation authorities fully responsible for the killing of Suleiman al-Hathlin after he was run over by a settler (Jan. 17, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Commission of Detainees Affairs publishes a paper entitled: “Administrative detention is a humanitarian crime and a violation of all international conventions and laws” (Jan. 20, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Foreign Minister informs the United Nations Secretary-General about the escalating violence of settlers and calls on providing international protection to Palestinians. (Jan 21, 2022) For further details, clickhere

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

• Israeli police in Jerusalem evict a Palestinian family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah at night and arrest 18 people in the process (Jan. 18, 2022). For further details, click here

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

• US Congresswoman Betty McCollum holds Israel responsible for the death of the elderly Omar Asaad (Jan. 16, 2022).For further details, click here
• Jordanian MOFAE condemns the attempts of forced displacement and eviction of a house in Sheikh Jarrah and considers them a flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law (Jan. 17, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemns the attempts to forcibly displace Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem and calls on the international community to intervene immediately in order to end these continuing violations (Jan. 18, 2021). For further details, click here
• The European Union calls for the protection of Palestinian children and their rights and to end the use of administrative detention against them (Jan. 18, 2022). For further details, click here
• The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, in his briefing before the Security Council, calls for finding a horizon for ending the occupation and achieving the two-state solution (Jan. 19, 2022). For further details, click here
• European Union: Settlement, demolitions and evictions are illegal and threaten the two-state solution (Jan. 19, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Minister for the Middle East and North Africa in the British Foreign Office calls on Israel to end its practices that inflame tensions on the ground (Jan. 19, 2022). For further details, click here
• UN agencies call on Israel to release the Palestinian teenager, Amal Nakhleh who suffers from a severe autoimmune disease, and calls for ending the administrative detention of children (Jan. 20, 2022). For further details, click here
• UNRAW condemns the forced evictions to the Palestinian Salhiyya family in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem, and urges Israel to halt all forced evictions and demolitions in the West Bank (Jan. 20, 2022).For further detail, clickhere
• Egypt condemns the Israeli forced evictions to Palestinian families and consider them a violation to resolutions of international legitimacy and international humanitarian law (Jan. 20, 2022).For further details, clickhere
• Secretary-General of the Arab Lawyers Association: evicting Salhiyya family from its home in Jerusalem is a scene that reflects the criminal actions of the Israeli occupation (Jan. 21 ,2022).For further details, clickhere

Human rights conferences and events

• EcoPeace Middle East Foundation calls on the Security Council to end the humanitarian and environmental crisis in the Gaza Strip (Jan. 19, 2022). For further details, click here
• 2,500 Americans sign a petition calling on the US Secretary of State to halt the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian citizens of the Negev within the 1948 territories (Jan. 22, 2022). For further details, click here