PALESTINE’S LEGAL SCENE –Issue. 98

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

14-20 Nov 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

• Palestinian MOFAE says Israeli human rights organizations’ reports on Israeli violations are evidence of failure of UN to end occupation (Nov 14, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian Health Minister calls on international community and human rights organizations to take immediate and urgent action to save the lives of prisoners on hunger strike (Nov 15, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE calls on the Security Council and the Human Rights Council to intervene to release prisoner Muhammad al-Halabi(Nov. 15, 2021).For further details, click here
• The Commission of Detainees Affairs: The occupation rejects the petition for the release of prisoner Kayed al-Fasfous for the fourth time (Nov. 16, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE condemns the crime of execution by the occupation of martyr Saddam Bani Odeh, southeast of Tubas (Nov. 16, 2021). For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE warns of danger of calls to include Al-Aqsa Mosque in program of visits by Israeli school students (Nov. 17, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE condemns Israel’s confiscation of five dunams of Jabal al-Raysan land near the village of Ras Karkar allegedly for military purposes (Nov. 17, 2021). For further details, click here
• Palestinian MOFAE condemns the Israeli crimes against the students of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya village, demands international protection for students (Nov. 18, 2021).For further details, click here
• The Settlement and Wall Resistance Commission succeeds in thwarting a 240-donum land registration deal for Israeli settler companies (Nov. 18, 2021). For further details, click here

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

• Israeli court in Jerusalem postpones the decision on the case of the expulsion of the al-Salaymeh family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah (Nov.15, 2021). For further details, click here
• Israel sentences a Spanish-Palestinian woman to 13 months in prison for allegedly transferring money to what Israel described as a ‘terrorist organization’ (Nov. 18, 2021). For further details, click here
• Israel revises the intelligence/Intel file it submitted to the US on the bombing of a skyscraper in Gaza that housed the offices of The Associated Press (AP), and Al Jazeera (Nov. 18, 2021). For further details, click here

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

• S. Ambassador Linda Greenfield confirms U.S. support for Israeli normalization agreements with countries in the region (Nov. 17, 2021).For further details, click here
• The international community overwhelmingly affirms its support for UNRWA at the annual pledging conference (Nov. 16, 2021). For further details, click here
• Israel and Egypt are discussing a new proposal that might lead to the completion of a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas (Nov. 16, 2021). For further details, click here
• The US ambassador to the UN pressures Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over the allowances of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and considers them as undermining the prospects for the two-state solution (Nov. 17, 2021). For further details, clickhere
• Tunisia’s foreign minister renews his country’s supportive stance on the cause of the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights (Nov. 17, 2021). For further details, click here
• The Middle East Quartet expresses its concern over the escalating Israeli violence in the West Bank (Nov. 18, 2021).For further details, click here
• The UN Committee on Economic and Financial Issues adopts a resolution in favor of Palestine on sovereignty over its natural resources (Nov. 18, 2021). For further details, click here
• A draft law in the Finnish Parliament prohibits the import of goods produced in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as they were built on occupied land in violation of international law (Nov. 19, 2021). For further details, click here
• OIC condemns the policy of execution and violence pursued by Israeli authorities against the Palestinians, which led to the martyrdom of Omar Abu Asab and Sami al-Amour (Nov. 19, 2021). For further details, click here

Academic research and studies

•  Research for MutazQafisheh and Ihsan Adel Published by a Cambridge Journal on Palestinian Prisoners Might Trigger ICC Prosecution. (Nov. 20, 2021) for further details, click here

Publications of human rights NGOs

• B’Tselem publishes a new report titled: “State Business: Israel’s misappropriation of land in the West Bank through settler violence” (Nov. 15, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestine Legal sues George Washington University for violating the civil rights of Palestinians on campus by canceling “trauma support services” for Palestinian students (Nov. 16, 2021).For further details, click here
• Palestinian civil society organizations demand the cancellation of the normalization meetings with the U.S. ambassador, “Linda Greenfield”, in solidarity with the six Palestinian organizations (Nov. 17, 2021). For further details, click here
• Human Rights Watch and more than 70 other organizations are calling on the US Senate to adopt a legislative amendment to monitor the humanitarian effects of the Israeli closure on Gaza and urge its end (Nov. 19, 2021). For further details, click here
• Amnesty International: “JCB Machines” must stop ignoring the use of its machines to commit Israeli war crimes (Nov. 19, 2021).For further details, click here

Human rights conferences and events

• A student demonstration at Harvard University calling for an end to the Israeli occupation (Nov. 16, 2021). For further details, click here