HaMoked to the HCJ: prison warder’s violence towards juvenile detainee must be reinvestigated; the investigation authorities’ conduct was flawed throughout, subverting the search for truth

HaMoked to the military: minors should not be pulled out of their beds at night in order to be interrogated; the default should be to summon them to interrogation at the police station

HaMoked complaint to the Ministry of Justice: the recurring phenomenon of ISA interrogations of minors who are kept in isolation and denied legal counsel must be eradicated

Report by Breaking The Silence organization

After staying abroad for 10 years, while evading compensation payment and performance of community service: a settler convicted of assaulting a Palestinian was arrested upon his return to the country and later released

11 years after beating and degrading an East Jerusalem father in front of his son: 3 officers will pay the father and son 60,000 NIS in compensation

After over 20 years: an Israeli border police officer who participated in attacking a Palestinian in custody pays the compensation imposed on him by the court

HaMoked and other human rights organizations in an urgent appeal to the Minister of Defense: the military must prepare in advance for possible attacks against Palestinians in the build up to the evacuation of the Ulpana Hill

It is commonly accepted that law enforcement agencies have the authority to use force in order to apprehend suspected offenders. This authority is far reaching: it does not concern self-defense or stopping the commission of an offense, nor use of force in order to enforce a served judgment. This is a secondary power which is adjunct to the power to imprison an individual for the purpose of clar...

Petition by HaMoked and Yesh Din to instruct the military to amend the "Procedure for Processing External Requests to Access Investigative Materials collected by MPIU”. The organizations assert that the procedure’s arrangements are extremely unreasonable, motivated by extraneous considerations and violate basic rights. The organizations demand the procedure be revised such that civil claims aga...

HaMoked and Yesh Din petition the HCJ: the procedure for processing requests to review MPIU investigation materials, violates the basic rights of OPT residents

A report by Yesh Din uncovering the systematic flaws which prevent the success of MPCID investigations into offences committed by soldiers against Palestinians. Consequently, 96.5% of complaints filed are closed without indictments. The report is based on Yesh Din's monitoring of 192 complaints and analysis of dozens of investigation files, covering diverse offences against Palestinians and the...

Palestinian detainees held in the ISA Interrogation Facility in Petah Tikva, were subjected to ill treatment, degrading detention conditions, and prohibited interrogation methods: as indicated by six civil claims recently filed by HaMoked

16 years after three Palestinian laborers had been brutally assaulted by a border police officer: his family pays out the damages awarded in HaMoked's civil claim

Report of the Goldstone commission appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in order to examine suspicions of war crimes during the Cast Lead war. The report, which is based on evidence and much information from both Palestinian and Israeli sources, determines that actions taken by Israel and Hamas during the war included breaches of international humanitarian and human rights law. The commissi...

The District Court accepted an appeal filed by HaMoked regarding the compensation sum awarded to Palestinians who had been attacked by police officers: In the ruling, the court found that the plaintiffs are to receive compensation for both the physical damage and the severe injury to their dignity

Human rights organizations in Israel, including HaMoked, appeal to the government: Do not silence "Breaking Silence"

Following HaMoked's demand for an investigation into an incident in which police officers assaulted one of its employees, an indictment was served against the police officers involved: following the incident, the employee who was assaulted required hospital care

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...