| The Disengagement Plan
and its Repercussions on
the Right to Health in the
Gaza Strip
It all began in 1988. Gaza was blanketed in smoke and fire. Palestinian
youths threw stones as a response to the Israeli army. This was the
Palestinian uprising. A moment which changed the course of history.
Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine
Report of the Secretary-General*
The present report is submitted in accordance with General Assembly
resolution 59/31. It contains replies received from the President of the Security
Council and the concerned parties to the notes verbales sent by the Secretary-General
pursuant to the request contained in paragraph 13 of the resolution.
MACHSOMWATCH OBSERVATIONS DURING SEPTEMBER 2005
In Hebron, a surrealist drama has been playing out for years. Hebron (Area H2) is a ghost town created by the violent occupation of settlers, under the IDF’s aegis. Palestinian citizens of Hebron who “didn’t understand the hints” and have remained in their homes, live in terror of the settlers. Scores of relevant testimonies are available.
The issue of Palestinian pregnant women giving birth at
Israeli checkpoints
The present report is submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights
resolution 2005/7 of 14 April 2005, entitled “Israeli Practices Affecting the Human
Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territory,
including East Jerusalem”
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan
The present report is submitted in pursuance of General Assembly resolution
59/123 of 10 December 2004, the operative part of which reads as follows:
MACHSOMWATCH OBSERVATIONS DURING JUNE 2005
Throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the prevailing attitude towards the Palestinians (the very tip of which was visible in the filmed lynch Halal Majaida) lays bare the moral hypocrisy of the Occupation’s agents.
Trends of Development in National Insurance
The turnabout in the government’s social policy in 2002-2003 left its stamp in the
social security system of Israel in 2004 as well. NII benefit payments as a percentage
of the GDP fell to their 1997 level – only slightly higher than their average in 1993-
1996. In three years benefits dwindled by about 1.4 GDP percentage points, down to
about 7.9% of the GDP
One Big Prison
“The only thing missing in Gaza is a morning line-up,” said Abu Majid, who spent ten years in Israeli prisons, to Israeli journalist Amira Hass in 1996
War Crimes in Rafah. Violations of International Humanitarian Law and International
Human Rights during the " Rainbow " operation (13-25 May 2004)
The Gaza Strip covers 360 square kilometers along the Mediterranean coast, between Egypt and Israel. 1.4 million people live there. Almost half of them are under the age of 15. The population density is one of the highest in the world. Over a third of the territory of the Gaza Strip is unaccessible to the Palestinian population, being occupied by 6 to 7,000 settlers and the Israeli army.
On the Morality of Arab Collective Rights in Israel
Palestinian Arab citizens of the state of Israel are increasingly demanding collective rights, besides their traditional struggle for equal individual citizenship rights.
Collective Rights and Reconciliation in the Constitutional Process: The Case of Israel
Mr. Altschuler was a secular Jew who lived in Tel Aviv during the British Mandate. The Tel Aviv Municipality fined him for opening his restaurant on the Sabbath. He appealed to the Mandatorycourt against the fine and asked for the cancellation of the Tel Aviv Ordinance relating to working on the Sabbath.
NGO ALTERNATIVE PRE-SESSIONAL REPORT ON ISRAEL'S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW)
In its Third Periodic Report submitted to the Committee in 2001, Israel again fails to address adequately or to highlight major issues that affect the specific welfare, livelihood, and status of Palestinian women citizens of Israel.
Amnesty International Report 2005 During 2004, the human rights of ordinary men, women
and children were disregarded or grossly abused in every
corner of the globe. Self-Determination as Non-Domination: Ideals Applied to Palestine/Israel Few political commentators today think that every distinct people can and should have a sovereign state exclusively its own. Yet writings on the self-determination of peoples for the most part continue to assume a paradigm of self determination that mirrors the sovereign state. The Policy of Settlement and "Spatial Judaization” in the Naqab
Following the 1948 war, 80% to 85% of the Arab Bedouin in the south were expelled or fled beyond the borders of Israel, with only around 11,000 remaining. This latter group was concentrated in an area known as the Siyag, in the northern Naqab.
The route of the separation wall in this area follows the Green Line west of Tulkarm and at its southern point splits and winds eastward creating two enclaves – one around the settlement of Sal'it and the other one, which involves our case, around the Zufin settlement.
On Class and Nationality in Housing Rights In August 2004, the Israel Lands Administration (ILA) Council adopted “recommendation procedures for accepting candidates to purchase leasing rights for lands in agricultural and community settlements” (Decision No. 1015).
Looking at Israel at Israel’’s 2005 Budget
Proposal
This presentation takes a critical look at the proposed Israel Budget for 2005 and its
Budget Arrangements Law. The 2005 Budget is the fifth since the outbreak of the second intifada. It comes on
the heels of four years of budget slashes in both the social safety net and the social
services. Report on Global Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism has plagued the world for centuries. Taken to its most far-reaching and violent
extreme, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism resulted in the deaths of millions of Jews and the suffering of
countless others. Israel and the
Occupied Territories
Conflict, occupation
and patriarchy
Women carry the
burden The spiraling violence and killings in Israel and the Occupied Territories in the past four and a half years has brought untold suffering to the Palestinian and Israeli civilian populations. More then 3,200 Palestinians, including more than 600 children and more than 150 women have been killed by Israeli forces, and more than 1,000 Israelis, including more than 100 children and some 200 women were killed by Palestinian armed groups Residency and Citizenship of individuals who are not Jewish The formalization of residency status in Israel for individuals who are not Jewish was included in the provisions of the Law of Citizenship, and the Law of Entry into Israel, both enacted in 1952 Individuals Settlements in the Naqab: The Exclusion of the Arab Minority Individuals Settlements as a Continuation of Israel’s Policy of Control and
'Judaization' of the Naqab (Negev)
Since the founding of the state of Israel, its institutions have pursued an ideology which
views Jewish settlement throughout the state as a paramount goal, the attainment of
which is requisite for the maintenance of geo-political control over its territory. The Use of Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields by the Israeli Army
Issued February 2005 Introduction: During al-Aqsa Intifada, the Israeli army has used Palestinian civilians as human shields and/or
as hostages during the course of military operations in the 1967 Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs). Unification of Palestinian Families in the Jewish State The Supreme Court is expected shortly to give its decision on the legality of an amendment to
the Citizenship Law that denies Palestinian citizens of Israel the right to live in Israel with their
Palestinian spouses from the Occupied Territories. Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories The human rights situation in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip remained grave
throughout 2004, as armed clashes continued to exact a high price from civilians. While many see the
period after Arafat’s death on November 11 as the beginning of a new era in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, few changes have occurred on the ground where the wall regime Israel is building inside the
West Bank and the illegal Israeli settlements continue to expand. The 2005 State Budget and the Arab Citizens: A socio-economic report The Mossawa Center - the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel, is a human rights organization operating in the socio-economic field. World Bank Report on Impact of Intifada The World Bank’s Country Office for the West Bank and Gaza has recently completed its assessment of the economic impact of the ongoing Palestinian economic indicators. Through No Fault of Their Own
Punitive House Demolitions during the al-Aqsa Intifada
During the course of the al-Aqsa intifada, which began in September 2000, Israel has
implemented a policy of mass demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. In
that period, Israel has destroyed some 4,170 Palestinian homes. Case Review: Unrecognized Education System In June 2004, Adalah petitioned the Supreme Court of Israel on behalf of some three hundred three- and four-year-old Arab Bedouin children who were denied the opportunity to attend kindergarten because of the Ministry of Education's refusal to establish kindergartens in the “unrecognized villages” in which the children live Adalah's Newsletter, Volume 6, October 2004 How will historians view the demonstrations by the Palestinian Arab minority that occurred in
early October 2000? Has sufficient time passed for historians to connect the demonstrations to
other events that took place before The Or Commission Compared to the US Kerner Commission*
By Professor Yoav Peled*
The question I want to raise is this: What conception of Israeli democracy guided the Or
Commission in drafting its report? In other words | 
