PALESTINE’S LEGAL SCENE –Issue.126

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

29 may – 4 june 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 PM condemns and warns of serious consequences for the settlers’ flag march and violations against the Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem. (May 29, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestine Foreign Ministry condemns Israeli settlers’ beginning construction of a new settlement outpost on the lands of Jaloud town, south of Nablus. (May 30, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs condemns the Israeli escalation of violations against mosques, worshiping places, and Waqf lands in the West Bank, and indicates that such practices have considerably increased. ( May 31, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Foreign Minister calls on the EU to move towards halting escalatory Israeli violations. (May 31, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian permanent delegate to the UN emphasizes the fact that Israel has no sovereign rights over the OPTs including East Jerusalem. (May 31, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns the criminal assassination of journalist Ghufran Warasneh committed by Israeli occupation soldiers. (June 1, 2022). For further details, click here
• MOFAE condemns the occupation forces’ criminal assassination of martyr Bilal Kabha in the town of Ya’bad and of former prisoner Ayman Muhaisen in the Dheisheh camp. The MOFAE considers the ongoing field executions a disgrace to the international community. (June 2, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission states that 1,076 Israeli violations toward the Palestinians and their properties were committed last May alone. (June 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• The head of the Environmental Quality Authority reviews Israeli violations against the Palestinian environment during the Stockholm +50 conference and calls on the world to confront the Israeli occupation. (June 4, 2022). For further details, click here

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

• Israel is relaunching the E1 settlement plan, which aims to dismantle the geographical contiguity between the Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem and the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Bethlehem. (May 31, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Israeli Knesset preliminarily ratifies a bill prohibiting raising f the Palestinian flag atsState-funded institutions with a majority of 63 votes in favor and 16 against. (June 1, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Israeli government admits before the Israeli Supreme Court that the “Homesh” outpost in the northern West Bank is illegal. The court orders the government to provide an update within two months on the process of evacuating the outpost. (June 2, 2022). For further details, click here

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

• Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, and Oman condemn the extremist Israeli settlers’ storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque under Israeli police protection.(May 29, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Gulf Cooperation Council, the OIC, Arab Parliament, and the Arab League condemn allowing the Israeli extremists and a member of the Israeli Knesset to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque.(May 29, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson states that the intensification of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict goes back to the fact that the two-state solution has never been implemented.(May 30, 2022). For further details, click here
• With accordance to international law, Bahrain and Russia emphasize the importance of settling the Palestinian- Israeli conflict. (May 30, 2022). For further details, click here
• In a letter to Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of the State, members of the US Congress, led by Cori Bush, call for immediate and concrete steps to prevent the Israeli government from demolishing houses and displacing Palestinian citizens in the Yatta region.(May 31, 2022). For further details, click here
• The US Secretary of State stresses the importance of completing the investigations into the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. (May 31, 2022). For further details, click here
• In its session No. 152, the Ministerial Council of the GCC condemns the Israelis’ assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh and calls on the international community to open an investigation in order to hold those who committed the crime accoutable. It also welcomed the EU’s statement condemning the Israeli plans to construct 4,400 new settlement units in the Yatta region.(June 1, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Arab League issues a statement on launching Mohammed Al-Halabi’s trial session No. 170, which is the longest in the history of administrative detention. It considers how the session of Mohammad, an employee in an international humanitarian organization, targets the work of human rights and humanitarian organizations covering up the Israeli practices and crimes and thus violates the simplest rules of the international law.(June 1, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Secretary-General of the Arab Lawyers Union and the Arab League condemnd the assassination of the Palestinian journalist and ex-prisoner Ghufran Warasneh by the Israeli occupation, considering it a failed attempt to silence the truth.(June 2, 2022). For further details, click here
• UNRWA announces the establishment of an education expert advisory group to continue providing quality education to Palestinian refugee students. (June 2, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Arab Parliament says that the Israeli escalation of field executions will intensify tension and violence in the region.(June 2, 2022). For further details, click here
• The US insists it is committed to reopening its consulate in Jerusalem.(June 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib launches a petition calling on US President Joe Biden not to approve the visa waiver program that would allow Israelis to enter the United States without a visa. (June 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• UN Palestinian Rights Committee expresses its concern about the lack of progress in the investigation into the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as well as the number of children killed in the occupied Palestinian territories. (June 3, 2022). For further details, click here

Publications of human rights NGOs

• The Palestinian Journalists Union condemns the settlers’ attack on the journalism staff in the occupied city of Jerusalem in addition to murdering the martyred journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. (May 30, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) issues a statement concerning the German Federal prosecutor’s decision not to open an investigation in the Al-Kilani family case related to the aerial bombardment during Gaza’s 2014-airstrike. (May 30, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestine Prisoner club states that the prisoner Ibrahim Ghunaimat faces medical negligence in the occupation prisons. (May 31, 2022). For further details, click here
• The American General Mills Company sells its shares in a joint project with the Israeli Bodan Holdings Company located in “Atarot Settlement”. The BDS movement considers this a victory following ongoing pressures on the company for years. (June 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian BDS National Committee calls on Palestinians to boycott the forthcoming normalization conference convened by the “Alliance for Middle East Peace”. (May 31, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Prisoner Club says the fate of prisoner Khalil Awawdeh, who has been hunger-striking for 93 days in protest of his administrative detention, is at high risk.(June 3, 2022). For further details, click here

Human rights conferences and events

• The Prisoner Club organizes a supporting vigil for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons including those on hunger strike, such as Khalil Awawdeh and Raed Rayan. (May 31, 2022). For further details, click here
• Law for Palestine holds a live broadcast on FB entitled: “Shireen Abu Akleh: Can the killers be prosecuted in US courts”. (May 23, 2022). For further details, click here
• The United Nations names the annual training program for Palestinian broadcasters and journalists after Shireen Abu Akleh. (May 31, 2022). For further details, click here
• Rebuilding Alliance in the USA launches a petition calling on members of the US Congress to pressure the occupation government to release prisoner Ahmed Manasra. (June 3, 2022). For further details, click here