PALESTINE’S LEGAL SCENE –Issue.145

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

9 – 15 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 Palestinian MOFAE warns against treating child martyrs as numbers and statistics and calls on various human rights organizations to work on documenting the details of the murder and execution of each child separately, explaining its circumstances and dimensions and publishing it on a wide scale. (October 9, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian MOFAE says that the escalation in settlements is an official policy that aims to implement the largest possible number of Israel’s colonial expansionist projects and to annex more Palestinian land for the benefit of settlers (October 10, 2022). For further details, click here
• Palestinian PM says that the international community must criminalize the occupation’s attacks, hold Israel accountable for its crimes, and put settler gangs on terrorist lists. (October 10, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian MOFAE condemns the criminal execution of child Mahmoud Muhammad Khalil Samoudi (12 years), from Jenin, and calls on the ICC to immediately start its investigations into the crimes of the occupation and settlers. (October 11, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian MOFAE warns of the dangers of consecrating Talmudic prayers in Al-Aqsa as a step toward Judaizing it completely. (October 11, 2022). For further details, click here
• Palestinian Minister of Health Dr. May Al-Kaila denounces the attack on Doctor Asif Al-Qaddoumi by settlers while he was on his way to work in Jenin Governmental Hospital and calls on the international community and human rights institutions to intervene to stop the violations of the occupation. (October 12, 2022) For further details, click here
• The Palestinian MOFAE condemns the criminal execution of young Osama Mahmoud Adawi (18 years), by the Israeli occupation forces at the entrance to Al-Aroub camp, north of Hebron, and says that it is following up with courts and international organizations to put an end to Israel’s impunity. (October 13, 2022) For further details, click here
• The Palestinian MOFAE condemns Israel’s imposition of collective punishments on Palestinian cities, towns, villages, and camps, by imposing a strict siege and closing the entrances and exits of many areas. Illustrative of this is the case in Nablus, including thr Shuafat camp and others, which aim to abolish the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem and all areas classified (C), undermining any chance of the existence of a Palestinian state and replacing it with a hateful apartheid regime. (October 13, 2022) For further details, click here
• The Permanent Representative of Palestine to the UN sends identical letters to UN officials regarding the exposure of Palestinian children to killing and arrest by the Israeli occupation. (October 14, 2022) For further details, click here

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

• In a rare move, the Israeli Ministry of Defense decides to pay compensation to the family of Omar As’ad, a Palestinian-American who suffered a heart attack after being bound, gagged, and left on a construction site in the middle of winter by Israeli soldiers, leading to his death. (October 11, 2022) For further details, click here
• The Israeli government approves the Lebanese maritime deal, which the Israeli Prime Minister described as historic, and this agreement will regulate the security and economic fields between the two governments. The Israeli Prime Minister also stated that this maritime deal with Lebanon preserves the security of the northern settlements, the freedom of action of the Israeli army, and its maritime control in the area near the coast. (October 12, 2022)For further details, click here

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

• The Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs joins the international appeal and raises its voice in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli prisons. They also call on the international community, councils, agencies of the United Nations, and relevant international organizations to assume their responsibilities to ensure the freedom of prisoners, the sick, the elderly, and children. (October 10, 2022) For further details, click here
• The Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemns the extremists storming Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli occupation police. (October 11, 2022). For further details, click here
• OIC strongly condemns settlers tearing up and burning copies of the holy Qur’an near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, considering it a crime, an intentional provocation of Muslims, and a violation of human rights principles. (October 11, 2022) For further details, click here
• The Kuwaiti MOFA condemns and denounces the grave violations represented by storming Al-Aqsa Mosque and carrying out provocative practices that violate its sanctity, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces. (October 11, 2022) For further details, click here
• The Qatari MOFA condemns the settlers storming Al-Aqsa Mosque and considers it a “flagrant violation of international law, and a provocation to the feelings of Muslims around the world.” (October 12, 2022)For further details, click here
• OIC condemns the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by extremist settlers under the protection of the Israeli police and condemns the closure of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron. (October 13, 2022)For further details, click here
• The Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, while receiving the US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, stresses the firm Arab position on the Palestinian issue, the importance of the role that the US administration can play to push for efforts to achieve comprehensive peace and the desired settlement. (October 13, 2022)For further details, click here
• The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization “UNESCO” adopted, at its 215th session held in Paris, two resolutions on the State of Palestine, unanimously. The two resolutions dealt with the issue of Jerusalem, the reconstruction of Gaza, and the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. (October 13, 2022)For further details, click here and here
• The United Nations Special Rapporteur in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese, criticizes MK Itamar Ben-Gvir’s statements on the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem. She says that “Incitement to commit a crime, especially on racial grounds, is a clear breach of Israel’s int’l obligations (ICCPR, art.20; CERD, art.4), coming from a law-maker, it is particularly outrageous & unacceptable.” She calls on Israeli leaders to condemn it. (October 14, 2022)For further details, click here
• The European Union recognizes that Israel is tarnishing the reputation of Palestinian human rights activists by emphasizing repealing the funding ban it had imposed on two Palestinian non-governmental organizations. (October 14, 2022). For further details, click

Publications of human rights NGOs

• MEMO published a review of the book “Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization”, which is on the short list for the Palestinian Book Awards 2022. (October 9, 2022) For further details, click here
• 292 Human rights networks and organizations issued a joint statement calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons, and calling on the states party to the Geneva Conventions to compel the occupying state to respect its obligations under the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions to protect prisoners and civilians. (October 10, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Electronic Intifada website published an article documenting the failure of cases brought before the British judiciary to paralyze the solidarity movement with Palestine. (October 10, 2022)For further details, click here
• Al-Haq welcomes Institute for Palestine Studies Report on “Persecution of Palestinian Civil Society: Epistemic Violence, Silencing, and the Apartheid Framework”. (October 11, 2022). For further details, click here
• BADIL submitted a report to the UPR about Israeli Colonial-Apartheid Policies and Practices Deny Palestinian Self-Determination. (October 11, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights condemns the IOF’s collective punishment measures and repressions against the Palestinians in Shu’fat Refugee Camp and ‘Anata Village in Occupied East Jerusalem, and denounces the cold-blooded executions and killings of a Palestinian child by occupying forces in Hebron. (October 13, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate condemns the continuous systematic occupational targeting of journalists and says that this is in conformity with an official decision of the Israeli authorities. (October 13, 2022). For further details, click here
• The Arab Lawyers’ Union condemns the arrest by Israel of 11 Palestinians in separate areas of the West Bank. (October 13, 2022). For further details, click here
• Members of the United States Palestinian Society Network (USPS) deliver U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky a letter calling for her to sign the Bill on the Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living under Israeli Military Occupation. (October 14, 2022). For further details, click here
• Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel calls on Israel to lift the siege on Palestinian residential areas in East Jerusalem. (October 14, 2022). For further details, click here