PALESTINE’S LEGAL SCENE –Issue.110

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

6-12 Feb 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 Palestinian MOFAE condemns the assasination of three Palestinians in Nablus by the IDF, and calls on the ICC to intervene.(Feb. 8, 2022). For further details, click here
• The head of the General Authority for Civil Affairs, Hussein Al-Sheikh, called on the international bodies to intervene; to avert another explosion in and outside Israeli prisons. (Feb. 8, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian PM calls on Germany to recognize the State of Palestine from a standpoint of faith in the two-state solution.(Feb. 10, 2022). For further details, click here

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

• The Knesset approves, in the first reading, the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law of 2022, which would deprive Palestinian families of the right to family unification.(Feb. 8, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Joint List says that legitimizing the Citizenship Law that prohibits “unification” deprives the Palestinian people of their rights.(Feb. 8, 2022). For further details, click here
• Former Israeli Prosecutor Michael Ben Yair: With tremendous regret, I have concluded that my country has now become an apartheid regime.(Feb. 12, 2022). For further details, click here

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

• LAS welcomes the decision of the African Union to freeze granting Israel observer status and considers it a corrective step towards supporting the Palestinian cause.(Feb. 6, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Arab Parliament considers freezing the decision to grant Israel observer status in the African Union a new victory for the rights of the Palestinian people.(Feb. 6, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Secretary-General of the United Nations expresses his concern over the continuation of violence throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, and reiterates that settlement expansion is illegal and must be stopped.(Feb. 8, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Secretary-General of the United Nations: “The goal remains two States — Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous, viable and sovereign Palestinian State — living side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders, on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, with Jerusalem as the shared capital of both States. There is no plan B”.(Feb. 8, 2022). For further details, click here
• Chairman of the CEIRPP: Israeli settlements in occupied areas and the occupation itself are illegal under international law.(Feb. 8, 2022). For further details, click here
• Uzbekistan renews its support for Palestine in all international forums to establish an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.(Feb. 9, 2022). For further details, click here
• UN calls for calm and avoiding escalation after the Israeli forces targeted 3 Palestinians in Nablus.(Feb. 9, 2022). For further details, click here
• The German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) fires Palestinian, Arab employees after ‘flawed antisemitism probe’ amid accusations of pro-Israel bias. For further details, click here
• The Lebanese Shura Council suspends the implementation of a decision by the Minister of Labor allowing Palestinians born in Lebanon to work in some professions that the law has previously restricted to Lebanese only. For further details, click here

Publications of human rights NGOs

• The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) supports the Amnesty International report and calls for international action to end the oppression of the Palestinian people. (Feb. 7, 2022). For further details, clickhere
• The European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine published an overview of EU research funding and Israeli apartheid, based on the EU’s legal and moral obligations not to legitimize Israeli sovereignty over occupied territories since 1967.(Feb. 7, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Secretary-General of the Arab Lawyers Union condemns, in a statement, the Israeli government’s assassination of three Palestinians in the city of Nablus.(Feb. 9, 2022). For further details, click here
• Law for Palestine addresses the U.N. Rapporteur on Palestinian Administrative Prisoners’ boycott of Israeli Military Courts.(Feb. 9, 2022). For further details, click here
• Al-Haq organizations, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights has jointly published a combined statistical study on the losses and damages caused to civilians and civilian objects during the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip in 2021.(Feb. 10, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Independent Commission for Human Rights urges Germany to exert pressure on Israel and hold it accountable for its violations of international law against Palestinians. (Feb. 10, 2022). For further details, click here
• Adalah issues a report titled “The Israeli Supreme Court’s Rules to Advance in the Implementation of Defender Salah Hammouri’s Permanent Revocation of Residence and Forced Deportation.” For further details, click here

Human rights conferences and events

• During the popular conference that it organized to support the prisoners and detainees; The prisoners’ institutions appeal to the international community to assume its responsibilities and protect the prisoners inside Israeli prisons.(Feb. 9, 2022).For further details, click here
• Brown University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies hosts author Jill Hochberg to discuss her new book, Becoming Palestine: Towards an Archival Imagining of the Future.(Feb. 10, 2022). For further details, click here