HaMoked's activity in 2017: overview and statistics

New policy: after demolishing the assailants’ family homes, Israel now files lawsuits against the families

JERUSALEM — The state prosecutor’s office in Jerusalem has filed a precedent-setting lawsuit against the estate of a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem seven months after the man carried out a car-ramming attack that left four Israelis dead.

Precedent-setting suit seeks $572,000 in damages for each of four soldiers killed in Jerusalem truck-ramming attack

Source:B'Tselem Website

13 years after the 2003 shooting death of a West Bank resident by an Israeli soldier: the state agrees to pay the widow and orphans “ex-gratia” compensation

Torture in interrogation rooms: six lawsuits submitted through HaMoked over mental and physical damage caused to interrogees at the ISA interrogation facility at Shikma Prison

During a punitive demolition in East Jerusalem, the military caused severe damage to neighboring apartments: the affected families are suing the state over negligence

Thirteen years after a toddler was killed by an Israeli soldier’s gunfire in Gaza: the state finally allowed the father to enter Israel to testify in court about his son’s tragic death

HaMoked to the Court: order state to approve immediate removal of debris from a punitively demolished housing unit in Jabal al-Mukabber in order to prevent further damage to property or life

The Knesset approved Amendment No. 8 of Civil Wrongs (Liability of the State) Law: Israel continues to exempt itself from liability for damage caused by its soldiers in the OPT and raises additional obstacles on the way of Palestinians to sue compensation for the damage sustained by them

A decade after the military shot and killed a resident of the Qalandiya Refugee Camp: the state will compensate the deceased's family in the sum of ILS 400,000

A civilian, resident of the occupied territory, who is not taking part in combat is injured in the course of security forces activity and suffers bodily or property damages. He files a compensation claim against the state with a court in Israel. Israeli statute determines that the state is not civilly liable and is exempt from paying compensation if the damage was incurred in the course of a “w...

The Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee of the Knesset reviews the amendment to the Civil Wrongs (Liability of State) Law: HaMoked reasserts that this is an unconstitutional amendment, aimed at exempting the state from its responsibility for damages it caused to Palestinians of the Occupied Territories

Unit 202 of the Israeli military has a reputation as being a top operations unit. This is judicial knowledge; or so at least according to the judgment of Judge Malka Aviv at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court in the matter of Abu Snineh. I will confess: this author has no idea what Unit 202 is, or what reputation it has gained. Perhaps this is the root of the problem.The verdict concerns events th...

Judgment of the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court dismissing HaMoked's civil claim on behalf of Palestinians whose homes were taken over by the military for ten days, resulting in property damage and theft of valuables. The Court rules that while the statements of both the plaintiffs and the soldiers contained contradictions, those found in the soldiers' versions were immaterial and those found in t...