18.09.2007|Court Documents|Response to Petition

HCJ 3170/07 Dwikat et al. v. The State of Israel et al. Response on behalf of the respondents

One of a series of petitions by HaMoked in the matter of family unification in the territories. The State claims that the petitioners are seeking to breach the Interim Agreement, and therefore it should be dismissed since it deals with specifically political matters. However the State’s claims are misleading, since in practice the petitioners are demanding from the state to renew the procedure for receiving applications from the Palestinian Authorities, something which it has refused to do at present, and to act towards the implementation of the petitioners’ rights to a family life, in this way or through any other way. In the State’s response to the petitions there is a conspicuous disregard of the right to a family life as a constitutional right of the Palestinian residents of the territories, as has been recognized by the Supreme Court in the HCJ case of Adalah