PALESTINE’S LEGAL SCENE –Issue.144

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

2- 8 Oct 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 head of the Commission of Detainees Affairs calls on the Israeli occupation to put an end to its revenge crimes committed against the prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi. He asks the human rights and humanitarian institutions to intervene immediately to end the suffering of the prisoner. (October 2, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Foreign Ministry calls on all countries with relations with Israel, an occupying power, to call on them to comply with international law, resolutions of international legitimacy, and human rights principles. (October 2, 2022).For further details, click here
• Following the prison administration’s claim that there was a stabbing, the Commission of Detainees Affairs calls on the International Committee of the Red Cross to take urgent and rapid action to release the prisoners’ families detained in Ramon prison. They emphasize the importance of assuring these families and facilitating their return. (October 2, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns the efforts exerted to enforce the coexistence formula with the occupation and Israeli settlements while accepting it as an immutable reality. (October 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Minister urges the international community and all countries to hold the Israeli occupation directly responsible for the dangerous and bloody Israeli escalation and for the rise of serious violations against Palestinians’ human rights. (October 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Higher Committee for Jerusalem Affairs and Jerusalem Unit in the Office of the President familiarize the diplomatic missions and bodies accredited to Palestine with Israeli practices against the Palestinian curriculum in the schools in occupied Jerusalem. (October 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian President condemns the settlers’ relentless assaults on Palestinians, protected by the Israeli occupation in the occupied West Bank including in Huwara, Baita, and Sarra villages in Nablus. (October 4, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Ministry of Information calls on the International Union of Journalists to take all possible actions to condemn the injuries of Palestine TV cameraman Loai Samhan and reporter Mohammed Fawzi. They also point out how these attacks are a part of the siege on journalists covering the Israeli aggression on Deir al-Hatab village in Nablus. They assert that journalists need international protection to be guardians of the truth. (October 5, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Prime Minister is calling on a delegation from the British Foreign Office to refrain from moving its embassy to Israel, considering this step undermines the two-state solution. (October 6, 2022). For further details, click here
• The PLO’s head of refugee affairs calls on donor countries to provide flexible funding to UNRWA to give it the opportunity to allocate it according to its priorities. (October 6, 2022). For further details, click here
• The head of the Palestinian National Council receives a letter from the President of the European Parliament confirming the EU commitment to the two-state solution on the 1967 borders, in accordance with the UN resolutions.(October 8, 2022). For further details, click here

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

• The Israel Defense Forces announces the findings of its investigation into the killing of the Palestinian child Rayan Suleiman during a raid on a village in Bethlehem last week, and claims that it did not find any link between his death and the forces’ operation.(October 6, 2022). For further details, click here

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

• The Director of the UNRWA in the West Bank calls on the Israeli Security Forces to limit the use of excessive force and spare loss of civilian life in Jenin and across the West Bank. (October 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestine Committee in the Arab Parliament emphasizes its support for Palestine’s right to full membership in the United Nations and to join the international organizations and charters aimed to enhance its legal and international status and reflect its sovereignty over the occupied territories. (October 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• The OIC General Secretariat expresses concern over the declining health of Palestinian prisoner Naser Abu Hameed who suffers from cancer. (October 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Arab League reaffirms its opposition to the convening of the Association Council between the European Union and Israel.(October 3, 2022). Forfurther details, click here
• The European Union’s High Representative states at the start of the EU-Israel Association Council: “This year has witnessed the largest number of Palestinian fatalities since 2007.”. (October 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is concerned about the deterioration of the serious health condition of Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid, who has cancer. (October 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that during July and August, Israeli authorities demolished 202 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. (October 4, 2022).For further details, click here
• Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Parties in the UK oppose moving the British embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, following Prime Minister Liz Truss’s pledge to review its current location in Tel Aviv. (October 5, 2022). For further details, click here

Publications of human rights NGOs

• Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, referring to the EU-Israel summit: “European officials should know they’ll be shaking hands with representatives of a government committing crimes against humanity and that has outlawed prominent civil society groups challenging these abuses”. (September 30, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Red Crescent Society calls on all state parties in Geneva Conventions to ensure that Israel, as an occupying power, respects all related provisions of these conventions and protects the implementation of its medical tasks in the Palestinian Territories. (October 2, 2022). For further details, click here
• Before the EU-Israel Association Conference, Eve Gedi, Director of Amnesty International’s European Union Office, emphasised that any EU-Israel collaboration “must focus on dismantling Israel’s terrible regime of oppression and dominance.”(October 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• Adalah submits a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court regarding the rejection of the early release of Ahmed Manasra, demanding his release. (October 3, 2022). For further details, click here
• Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate strongly condemns the Israeli army’s assault on Palestine TV cameraman Loai Samhan and reporter Mahmoud Fawzi, as well as the siege of journalists covering the Israeli aggression on Deir Al-Hatab village in Nablus. (October 5, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel condemns the participation of filmmakers from the Arab region in the Haifa International Film Festival and calls on them to immediately retract and withdraw their films from the festival. (October 5, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Center for Human Rights condemns the shooting of a civilian car by the Israeli occupation forces, preventing medical assistance for the injured and leaving them to death in Al-Jalazone camp in Ramallah. They also condemn the killing of a civilian and the wounding of 7 others, including two journalists, in Nablus. (October 5, 2022). For further details, click here
• B’Tselem calls on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to intervene urgently to prevent the war crimes committed by Israel in the hills south of Hebron. (October 6, 2022). For further details, click here
• The International Center of Justice for the Palestinians sends a guiding document to parliamentarians in Britain on the proposed move to move the British embassy to occupied Jerusalem. (October 7, 2022). Forfurther details, click here

Human rights conferences and events

• The Commission of Detainees Affairs organizes an evaluation workshop entitled “The Reality and Challenges – Towards a National Strategy aiming at Enhancing the Local and International Status of Detainees”. (October 2, 2022).For further details, click here
• The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories calls states, human rights defenders, civil society organizations, and others for submitting contributions to a thematic report due to be submitted in March 2023 on the investigation of practices of deprivation of liberty in the occupied Palestinian territory by Israel as the occupying power. For further details, click here