Adalah :: Newsletter

Volume 90, February 2012

Success Story

In landmark ruling, Supreme Court accepts Adalah's petition and voids law that denies state income support payments to people with cars

Right to Housing

UN Expert Raquel Rolnik (center) with Dr. Thabet Abu Rass of Adalah
(right) and Sheikh Sayyah Al-Touri of Al-Araqib

Land development model in Israel and OPT excludes, discriminates against, and displaces Palestinians, says UN Expert on Adequate Housing, arguing that Israel implements "a strategy of Judaisation and control of territory".

Israel is seeking to evict 1,000 Arab Bedouin from the unrecognized villages Atir-Umm al-Heiran in the Naqab in order to build a new Jewish town and plant a forest. Adalah is taking all legal measures to stop it.

Political Persecution

Legal defense team for MK Sa'id Naffaa rejects Attorney General's request to begin criminal case before the court decides on his parliamentary immunity.

Adalah reveals that military order prohibiting ships and individuals from entering Gaza was issued after the Freedom Flotilla set sail.

Economic & Social Rights

Adalah calls on the government to withdraw its support for a new bill that would grant a 35% tax exemption on donations to institutions promoting settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Water Tribunal rejects Adalah's appeal to connect unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the Naqab to the water network, despite a Supreme Court ruling that the state must guarantee "minimum access to water".

Prisoners' Rights

District Court once again rejects political prisoner Walid Dakka's request to father child, citing secret evidence.

COMMENTARY: The Hunger Strike Defeated the Secret Evidence – The Case of Khader Adnan
By Attorney Rima Ayoub-Assaf, Adalah

Occupied Palestinian Territory

CASE REVIEW: Supreme Court failed to order the State to investigate suspected grave violations of international law committed in Gaza during the 2004 military operations
By Adalah for Al Haq, PCHR & Adalah

CASE REVIEW: Exploiting A 'Dynamic' Interpretation? The Israeli High Court of Justice and Israel's Quarrying Activities in the OPT.
By Valentina Azarov, Al Quds University

Events in Syria
Adalah Statement The Syrian regime is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity; independent investigation into the Homs Massacre and other crimes against civilians must be opened
Adalah at the UN
Adalah Attorney Orna Kohn Interview From 14-16 February 2012, Adalah Attorney Orna Kohn represented Adalah at the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva. The Committee convened to review Israel's compliance with its international human rights obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which Israel ratified in 1979. More…
Upcoming Events
International Women's Day - 8 March Adalah and Sidreh will host a joint event on 7 March 2012 in the Naqab on Arab Bedouin women's rights. Adalah Attorney Orna Kohn will be a speaker. Adalah Attorney Sawsan Zaher will speak on the Citizenship Law decision on a panel discussing this case from a feminist perspective at Mada al-Carmel on 8 March 2012 in Haifa. Adalah & Amnesty UK at Film Festival Adalah Attorney Suhad Bishara will speak at a keynote event on Palestinian citizens of Israel in the run-up to the 15th London-Palestine Film Festival on 5 April 2012.
NGO Partners' Reports
PCATI: New paper on impunity for torture, "Accountability Still Denied" EMHRN and APRODEV: EU-Israel Relations - Promoting and Ensuring Respect for International Law

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