HaMoked to the Court: Instruct the military to allow a Palestinian woman to visit her husband who is incarcerated in an Israeli prison

The military prevents a Palestinian mother from visiting her son who is serving a life sentence: the mother – who has never been arrested or interrogated – is banned from entering Israel for the visit, on the grounds that it could "threaten the security of the area"

One of the principles which define a democracy is that a man who has been injured by a decision of a state authority is entitled to turn to the courts for review of the decision. Not so when the court is the Supreme Court led by Dorit Beinisch.The right to access the courts is one of the most fundamental human rights. This right, whose safeguarding is the only guarantee other human rights are p...

Following HaMoked's intercession: the military agrees to issue a multiple entry permit for prison visits to a 34 year old Palestinian, the only family member who is allowed to visit his incarcerated brother

In a rare occurrence, the Jerusalem District Court awarded HaMoked legal costs in a petition to allow a mother to visit her son who is incarcerated in Israel: the military repeatedly breaks its commitment to the HCJ, to answer applications for prison visits within the prescribed time limit

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

The HCJ continues its recent hard line and rejects a petition by HaMoked and other human rights organizations to allow relatives of prisoners from the Gaza Strip to visit their loved ones who are incarcerated in Israel: In a short judgment, the court rules, inter alia, that the families’ right to visit their loved ones is not a basic humanitarian right and therefore, Israel is exempt from any o...

The HCJ prevents access to the courts from former inmates who are residents of Israel and whom the IPS forbids to visit their incarcerated relatives: In the judgment, the court rules that the prisoner, rather than the persons who had been denied, has the exclusive right to petition on this matter

Judgment petitions filed by HaMoked and Adalah to allow Gazans to enter Israel to visit relatives incarcerated therein. The HCJ rejects the petitions, ruling the visits are not a basic humanitarian necessity. The court maintains that since after disengagement Gaza is no longer under Israeli occupation, Israel is no longer obliged to care for anything beyond the basic humanitarian needs of Gaza’...

State pledges before HCJ to process Palestinians' applications for visitation permits for prisons in Israel within two and a half months: the undertaking was given following HaMoked's petition against the military's foot-dragging in the processing of applications

The paper discusses the relevant legal framework for evaluating the sanctions Israel imposed on the civilian population in Gaza during Operation "Cast Lead", in light of the judgment in Bassiouni, HCJ 9132/07, which dealt with Israel's obligation to provide electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip. The author assess the HCJ's position in Bassiouni, whereby after disengagement Gaza is not an occup...

HaMoked - Center for the Defence of the Individual and other human rights organizations petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court today to renew family visitations for prisoners from the Gaza Strip being held in Israeli prisons: For over a year, Israel has prevented relatives of prisoners to visit their loved ones, without justification, thereby violating the fundamental rights of the prisoners and ...

Petition by HaMoked and other human rights organizations regarding renewal of family visits for prisoners from the Gaza Strip imprisoned inside Israel. Israel has been preventing visits from the Gaza Strip for over a year, claiming there is no one with whom to coordinate travel; this, despite the fact that the ICRC has always coordinated the visits. The Petitioners, including five prisoners and...

HaMoked has published a position paper calling for the rejection of bills that seek to deny the right to family visits to security prisoners who are members of organizations holding Israeli captives: HaMoked argues that these proposed laws are inconsonant with international and Israeli law; violate Israel’s obligation to protect the right to family life and its commitment – in accordance with t...

After the expiry of the sixty-day period set by the court, at the state’s request, for the state to file its response in HaMoked’s petition regarding the authorities’ failure to respond to requests, HaMoked has now filed an application for an order nisi: Surprisingly, the High Court of Justice (HCJ) asked to receive the state’s response “as soon as possible,” without setting any date and withou...

HaMoked is petitioning the High Court of Justice (HCJ) to permit a Palestinian resident of the West Bank to visit his brother in prison without being forced each time to prove his family relationship: Despite the fact that the petitioner’s applications have been approved in the past, the information is not detailed on the computer system, and each time the military refuses to allow the brothers...

This report sheds light on the many difficulties and the suffering faced by the prisoners' families, residents of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in their efforts to visit their relatives imprisoned in Israel. In light of the report's findings, B'Tselem urges the government of Israel to transfer all Palestinian prisoners to detention facilities inside the Occupied Territories. Also, so long a...

HaMoked petitions the HCJ against the cessation of family visits of residents of the Occupied Territories to their loved ones, held in prison facilities across Israel: All visits were terminated immediately after the capture of the soldier Gilad Shalit. This constitutes collective punishment and violates the constitutional rights of both the prisoners and their families

The military prevents Palestinians who live in the West Bank from visiting their relatives who are imprisoned in Israel, solely because their official address is in Gaza: HaMoked petitioned the HCJ after the respondent violated its commitment to allow these residents to participate in such visits