PALESTINE’S LEGAL SCENE – Issue. 87

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

29 August – 4 September 2021

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

• Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs: The “Real Estate Rights Settlement” scheme is a cover to seize more lands and estates. (August 29, 2021) .For further details, click here 
• Head of the General Authority of Civil Affairs: Agreement with the Israeli government to grant 5,000 family unification to Palestinian families as a down payment. (August 30, 2021) .For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE: Initiating the establishment of a settlement outpost west of Jenin, gradual annexation of the West Bank. (30 August 2021). For further details, click here 
• The Palestinian Council of Ministers demands the return of the bodies of the martyrs held by Israel. (30 August 2021). For further details, click here
• The Palestinian MOFAE condemns the Israeli stances rejecting the reopening of the US Consulate in Jerusalem and considers it hostile to peace. (September 2, 2021). For further details, click here
• Palestinian PM calls on the US administration to promptly  re-open the Consulate in East Jerusalem and to exert pressure on Israel to end the settlements. For further details, click here

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

• Israeli Defense Minister announces a plan to reunify thousands of Palestinian spouses. (September 1, 2021). For further details, click here
• The Israeli government is forming an undercover police unit to clamp down on crime in the Arab communities. (September 1, 2021). For further details, click here
• Israel expands the fishing zone in Gaza and allows more Palestinian workers to enter Israel. (September 1, 2021). For further details, click here
• Military police investigate the killing of a Palestinian by Israeli forces’ fire near a highway in the West Bank. (September 2, 2021). For further details, click here

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

• Biden raises the issue of reopening the consulate and opposes the evacuation of Palestinian families in his meeting with Bennett. (August 29, 2021). For further details, click here 
• The UN expresses its deep concern over the accelerated Israeli violence against Palestinians, calls for protecting them against the settlers’ attacks. (30 August 2021). For further details. click here
• United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process calls on Israel to open an investigation into the settlers’ attack on a Palestinian child. (August 31, 2021). For further details, click here 
• The League of Arab States warns of the danger of a land settlement project and the activation of the Absentee Property Law. (September 2, 2021). For further details, click here

Academic research and studies

• The Palestinian Refugee Portal issues a research paper entitled “Gaza the Great Siege, Episodes of Aggression in an Extended Siege”. (August 6, 2021) For further details, click here 
• In Leiden Journal of International Law: Ardi Imseis publishes a critical academic study on the membership of Palestine in the United Nations. (August 27, 2021) For further details, click here

Publications of human rights NGOs

• Peace Now: Strengthening settlements in the “E1” area poses a real threat to the prospects for peace. (August 29, 2021).  For further details, click here
• 120 American and international organizations consider arms exporters to Israel as complicit in the killing of Palestinians. (September 3, 2021). For further details, click here

Human rights conferences and events

• A demonstration in New York demanding the return of the bodies of Palestinian martyrs held by the occupation. (August 30, 2021).  For further details, click here
• During a solidarity event, prisoners’ organizations demand the immediate release of the prisoner Anhar al-Deek and the rest of the sick prisoners. (August 31, 2021). For further details, click here
• An Egyptian-Jordanian-Palestinian summit in Cairo affirms support for the Palestinian people and their just rights. (September 2, 2021). For further details, click here
• Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) launches a campaign to prevent the UK from deporting a Jewish activist who supports the Palestinians’ rights. (September 3, 2021). For further details, click here

Announcements regarding upcoming human rights activities and opportunities

• Palestine Legal announces the holding online screening and discussion of Lobby- USA documentary. (September 1, 2021). For further details, click here