israeli high court

Court gives Israel "licence to pillage" West Bank, say rights groups

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
22 February 2012
After a recent Israeli high court decision allowed Israeli companies to maintain quarrying and mining activities in the occupied West Bank, human rights activists say the decision has opened the door to Israel’s pillaging of other Palestinian resources.

Despite arbitrary travel ban, Israel to permit Palestinian human rights defender to meet UN expert in Geneva

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 14:50

Shawan Jabarin, director of human rights group Al-Haq, is to be allowed to travel to Geneva for a meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, for the first time since Israel imposed a travel ban on him six years ago.

Hunger striker Khader Adnan "will not back down," sends greetings to supporters as health deteriorates further

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 10:21

Khader Adnan, the Palestinian who has been on hunger strike for 66 days against his detention without charge or trial is in high spirits and sends greetings to all who support him, despite signs of further decline in his health according to a lawyer who visited him on Monday.

Report hunger striker Khader Adnan to receive involuntary treatment "mistakenly published" by Ynet

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 09:39

Israeli officials are not force-feeding, or forcing treatment on Khader Adnan, who is in his 64th day of hunger strike against his detention without charge or trial by Israel, despite an earlier report to that effect on Israel’s Ynet website.

Stealing Palestine's resources is illegal, despite Israeli court ruling

Charlotte Silver
Ramallah
7 February 2012
Israel’s illegal acts of resource pillaging in the occupied West Bank are “benefitting” the Palestinian population, according to the Israeli high court.

Palestinian families denied rights by Israel's racist marriage laws

Charlotte Silver
27 January 2012
An Israeli law forbidding Palestinians gaining citizenship upon marrying an Israeli leaves thousands of families in limbo.

Bunker state cemented by new Israeli law against refugees

Jonathan Cook
Nazareth
19 January 2012
Just as Israel did — and still does — with Palestinians wanting to return to their homeland, thousands of desperate asylum seekers from Africa are being criminalized under the “Prevention of Infiltration law.”

Private security guards kill with impunity in East Jerusalem

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Silwan
28 November 2011
According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, 350 private Israeli security guards are currently employed in East Jerusalem by private security firm Modi’in Ezrahi, which is subcontracted by the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction, to protect 2,000 settlers living illegally in the occupied territory.

"Recognized" Bedouin villages still denied schools by Israel

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Negev
16 September 2011
More than 70 percent of Bedouin girls drop out of school in Israel, where access to education is restricted.

Israel deports children to preserve "Jewish character" of state

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
1 September 2011
Israel is deporting the children of migrant workers out of “Zionist considerations” to ensure “the Jewish character of the state of Israel,” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated.

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