PALESTINE’S LEGAL SCENE –Issue.127

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

5 – 11 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 FM condemns the Israeli procedures taken against hunger-striking detainees Khalil Awawdeh and Raed Rayyan who reject their administrative detention. The ministry calls for real international pressure to halt administrative detention.(June 6, 2022). For further details, click here
• The head of the Refugee Affairs Department affirms that UNRWA is the only body empowered to provide relief and work services for Palestinian refugees in line with its mandate specified in UN Resolution No. 302. He also refuses the sharing and distribution of UNRWA’s power and functions among international organizations. (June 6, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian FM condemns the settlers’ offense of the Holy Spirit Church and slams it as a part of the organized terrorism by the Israeli occupation.(June 7, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian FM condemns the nomination of the Israeli ambassador for the position of UN General Assembly’s Vice President slamming it as an attempt for normalization and impunity in the international system.(June 8, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian FM condemns the kiling of young man Mahmoud Fayez Abu Ayhour by the Israeli occupation in Halhoul, Hebron area.(June 9, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Foreign Minister reveals that the results of the inquiry into the murder of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh have been handed over to the International Criminal Court, claiming that the incident may be considered a war crime.(June 9, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Permanent Representative of Palestine to the United Nations submits three identical UN letters regarding Israel’s occupying Power’s continued destruction of Palestinian houses and property, as well as forcefully displacing Palestinian families, in a gross violation of international law.(June 9, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian FM calls on the US administration to fulfill its obligations and protect the property of churches in Jerusalem. (June 10, 2022). For further details, click here

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

• The Knesset fails to renew regulations applying Israeli law to settlers, which have been in force since 1967, that grant settlers in the West Bank the same rights as citizens in Israel.(June 7, 2022). For further details, click here
• In response to the requests of prisoner Asra Jabas, MK Michal Waldiger (Religious Zionist Party) has introduced a bill in the Knesset to prohibit state-funded cosmetic operations for “terrorists”.(June 7, 2022). For further details, click here

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

• In the 55th commemoration of An-Naksa (Palestinian Setback), both the Arab Parliament and the Arab League called for providing international protection for Palestinians and supporting the establishment of their independent state whose capital is Jerusalem. (June 5, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Arab League warns of the precautions of the Israeli political policies practiced against the Palestinian environment.(June 6, 2022).For further details, click here
• According to the new UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, occupation and discrimination against Palestinians are primary drivers of tension and instability. (June 7, 2022). For further details, click here
• United Nations Committee on Palestinian Rights says that ending Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory in full conformity with Security Council resolutions remains crucial to breaking the cycle of violence.(June 7, 2022). For further details, click here
• The European Union’s Deputy Representative says, “The continuous practice of demolitions and evictions in occupied East Jerusalem breaches international humanitarian law and must cease.” (June 7, 2022). For further details, click here
• Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan was elected as a Vice-President of the United Nations General Assembly. (June 7, 2022). For further details, click here
• Heads of UN missions and other like-minded countries visit populations who are at risk of displacement in Wadi Qaddoum. The Deputy European Union Representative Maria Velasco expressed her solidarity with Palestinian families facing eviction during the visit, emphasizing that “the continuous practice of demolitions and evictions in occupied East Jerusalem is in violation of international humanitarian law and must be stopped.”(June 7, 2022). For further details, click here
• The report of the new UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory is seen by the US Department of State as a one-sided, biased approach that accomplishes nothing to improve peace prospects. (June 7, 2022).For further details, click here
• The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns the continuous attacks on the properties of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. (June 10, 2022). For further details, click here
• The European Union says that settlers’ takeover of Christian properties in Jerusalem puts Palestinians at risk of eviction. (June 10, 2022). For further details, click here

Publications of human rights NGOs

• Amnesty International has called on Israel to free Salah Hammouri, a Palestinian-French lawyer, from administrative detention, stating that his detention without charge or trial is an evident attempt to muzzle his work on human rights.(June 6, 2022). For further details, click here
• CLACSO endorses Israel’s academic boycott in response to the Palestinian campaign’s request for an academic and cultural boycott, including all Israeli institutions, for decades of complicity in Israeli abuses against the Palestinian people.(June 9, 2022). For further details, click here

Human rights conferences and events

• SOMOFUS, in collaboration with the Arab Center for Social Media Development, has started a petition to PayPal, urging the company to give services to Palestinians and to cease operations in Israeli settlements.(June 6, 2022). For further details, click here
• Big Thief, an American rock band, has opted to cancel a planned concert in Tel Aviv, marking a major success for the BDS boycott movement. (June 10, 2022). For further details, click here
• Facebook has removed from the site the documentation project page for the “Encyclopedia of Palestinian Camps.” (June 10, 2022). For further details, click here

Upcoming human rights opportunities and events

• The UN Committee on Rights of the Palestinian People is to hold a webinar entitled: “Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories”. For further details, click here