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Collective Punishment as Israel Conducts Mass Arrests, including the Family Members of Prisoner Escapees Arrested in Jenin, High School Student Shot by Israeli forces is Hospitalised
(Reporting Period 7- 13 September 2021)
Background
On 6 September 2021, six Palestinian prisoners escaped from the Israeli Gilboa Prison, located outside of the Occupied Pale...
Special Focus: Israel Intensifies Forced Self-Demolitions of Palestinian Homes in Occupied Jerusalem
(Reporting Period: 16-23 August 2021)
Introduction: House Demolitions in Jerusalem, A Method of Warfare Since 1948
“In one minute, the whole life of a house e...
Urgent Appeal to Safeguard Palestinian Prisoners' Rights against Collective Punishment by the Israeli Prison Services
On Saturday 11 September, Al-Haq and partners submitted an urgent appeal to the UN special procedures calling for their urgent intervention to protect the lives of Palestinian prisoner escapees. On th...
Open Letter to the States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty on the Need to Impose a Comprehensive Two-Way Arms Embargo on Israel
We, the undersigned global coalition of leaders –from civil society to academia, art, media, business, politics, indigenous and faith communities, and people of conscience around the world&ndash...
Al-Haq and Al Mezan send joint written submission to the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development on the Draft Convention on the Right to Development
On 20 August 2021, Al-Haq and Al Mezan submitted an analysis of the Draft Convention on the Right to Development (DC RTD) at the request of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Developm...
Al-Haq Submits Its Written Observations to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on General Comment No. 26 on Land and the Governance of Tenure
On 15 August 2021, Al-Haq responded to a call for written contributions from the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) in the course of its draft of General...
Al-Haq Condemns the Killing of Four Palestinian youth during an Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) special undercover force raid in Jenin
In the early hours of the morning on 16 August 2021, a special undercover force of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raided the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. During the raid...
Palestinian Civil Society Submit Urgent Appeal to UN Special Procedures on the Arbitrary Detention and Harassment of Human Rights Defender Shatha Odeh
On 12 August 2021, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) and the Palestinian NGO Network submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Procedures on the arbitrary deten...
Al-Haq Welcomes Irelands Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence Report on Displacement and Demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
On 13 July 2021, Ireland’s Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, after holding a series of sessions to examine demolitions and the forced displacement of people in the Occupied Palesti...
PHROC: International Community’s Silence Incentivises Israel’s Continued Shrinking of Palestinian Civil Society Space
Gravely alarmed by Israel’s intensified attacks against Palestinian human rights defenders and civil society organisations, the Palestinian Human Rights Council (PHROC) condemns international co...
Al-Haq Sends an Urgent Appeal on the Arbitrary Detention and “Severe Suffering” of Human Rights Defender Ms. Shatha Odeh Abu Fannouneh, General Director of the Health Work Committee
On 23 July 2021, Al-Haq submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures on the arbitrary detention of human rights defender, Ms. Shatha Odeh Abu Fannouneh, Director of the Hea...
Commemorating the Work of Human Rights Defender, Suha Jarrar (11 September 1990 - 11 July 2021)
Al-Haq is deeply saddened by the tragic death of our dear colleague, Suha Jarrar, 30 years old, a senior legal researcher and advocacy officer with Al-Haq, and daughter of Ghassan...