The Right to Demonstrate for Uprooted Arab Residents of Umm El Faraj
HCJ 5913/98, Wakim Wakim, et al. v. Israel Police, et al.
The Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Uprooted Palestinians applied to the police for a permit to demonstrate inside Moshav Ben 'Ami to protest the Moshav's recent destruction of a mosque and cemetery. The Moshav sits on the land of Umm al-Faraj, an Arab village uprooted in 1948. Petitioned the Court in 09/98 to compel the police to grant a permit to the uprooted Arab residents to demonstrate at the holy sites. Reached a final settlement in 01/99, when the police subsequently agreed in to allow a maximum of 300 demonstrators to gather at the site, provided that they enter the Moshav on buses and that speeches are not electronically amplified.
(H.C. 5913/98, Wakim Wakim, et al. v. Israel Police, et al.)
