The wrongful legislation trend continues: the Knesset adopts a legal amendment making it easier for the military to assign “unlawful combatant” status

According to the military's response to HaMoked's inquiry: 159 detainees were transferred from the Gaza Strip to Israel during the war designated Operation Protective Edge

Israeli human rights organizations in an urgent letter to the Ministers of Defense and Public Security: refrain from collective punishment of Palestinians following the abduction of three Israelis

 

4,701 security detainees and prisoners are incarcerated inside Israel

Comments on “Administrative Detention in the West Bank: Q&A”

Published in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 45(3) 2012.

In a brief laconic judgment, the Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice (HCJ), approved the administrative detention order issued by the GOC Central Command against a Palestinian resident of the West Bank (HCJ 1389/07 Commander of IDF Forces in the Judea and Samaria Area v. Military Court of Appeals). At the time the petition was submitted, the detainee (the respondent in the petit...

HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual is proud to congratulate attorney Tamar Peleg-Sryck on receiving the 2011 Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award for Lifetime Achievement

Following HaMoked's intervention: a Palestinian man who was held without trial for 26 months after the military's attempt to expel him to Gaza was foiled, has been released to his home in the West Bank

After the rejection of three judicial reviews and their appeals: the military revokes an incarceration order against a Gaza Palestinian, issued under the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

Article reprint from: Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel by Abeer Baker and Anat Matar (Eds.) (Pluto Press, New York 2011).

It is commonly held that the role of Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice (HCJ), is to provide recourse for ordinary citizens who believe their rights have been trampled upon by the authorities. Under this common perception the HCJ is the defender of civil rights, a counterforce against the regime’s crushing power. This is not accurate: the HCJ’s formal role is not to de...

Article reviewing the manners in which various democracies handle their common difficulty in proving suspicions against alleged terrorists during hearings: while governments are forced to protect the sharing and collection of sensitive information when proving cases against terror suspects during hearings, withholding evidence from the suspects allegedly compromises the fairness of the judicial...

A report by HaMoked and B’Tselem regarding the administrative detention of Palestinians and the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law. At the time of publication, 335 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons without trial. These detainees have no ability to properly defend themselves and disprove claims against them or present alternative evidence, as in most cases, the judges declare the e...

Without Trial – administrative detention of Palestinians by Israel and the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law: A new report published by HaMoked and B'Tselem severely criticizes the holding of hundreds of Palestinians in detention without trial and states that Israel's sweeping use of this measure is unlawful