המוקד להגנת הפרט מגן על זכויותיהם של פלסטינים תחת כיבוש
Defending human rights of Palestinians under Israeli occupation
هموكيد - حقوق الانسان تحت الاحتلال
In this terrible time, in shock and mourning from the horrific crimes we have witnessed, 30 Israeli organizations come together to raise our voice loud and clear against the harming of all innocent civilians, both in Israel and in Gaza.
Human rights organizations in Israel condemn vicious attacks on
@amnesty
"The debate around the crime of apartheid of which Israel is accused, and its geographic scope, is not only legitimate, but absolutely necessary..."
Twelve human rights organizations in Israel deplore recent statements by EU High Representative
@JosepBorrellF
regarding
@amnesty
’s report “Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians”. Read our joint statement here 👇🏼 1/6
30 organizations publish ad in Ha'aretz-English today:
Emergency call to the international community =>
Stop the stop the state-backed wave of settler violence in the West Bank, which is leading to the forcible transfer of Palestinian communities
11 human rights organizations in Israel call on the UN not to validate & promote controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism in upcoming Action Plan on Monitoring Antisemitism & Enhancing a System-wide Response 1/8
@antonioguterres
@MiguelMoratinos
@MelissaFleming
@volker_turk
🧵New data: Israel Prison Service is holding 6,809 Palestinians:
This includes 2,070 administrative detainees - an unprecedented number;
& 105 "unlawful combatants" (details below)
It does NOT include some 4,000 Gaza workers - so actually Israel holds about 11,000 Palestinians
18 human rights groups in Israel stand in solidarity with
@DCIPalestine
and other Palestinian colleagues targeted by Israeli authorities. We are united against any unlawful act to limit, intimidate, or undermine the important work being done by Palestinian civil society.
Now more than ever we need your support!
The new Israeli government means harsher policies toward the Palestinians - and a crackdown on those who defend them.
Donate to HaMoked, so we can provide tangible assistance & defend basic rights:
And RT!
Israel's Minister of Interior has announced that he's initiated a process to revoke residency status from 2 Jerusalem Palestinians (whom he demagogically terms "Hamas terrorist Nazis").
This based on law allowing revocation for "breach of allegiance to the state of Israel"...
20 Israeli human rights & anti-occupation organizations condemn the detention of Palestinian human rights defender Nasser Nawaja'a, well-known for his work with
@btselem
and his activism against the forced displacement of Palestinian communities in S. Mt Hebron, West Bank
השב"כ הורה לעצור ולכפות במשך שעות את נסר נוואג'עה, עובד
@btselem
ומגן זכויות אדם מוכר, מבלי שיש להם אף טענה ביטחונית אחת נגדו.
חטאו היחיד הוא עבודתו נגד גירוש קהילות פלסטיניות מדרום הר חברון ומעצרו הוא החוליה האחרונה בשרשרת התנכלויות בלתי פוסקות כנגד הקהילות האלה.
HaMoked stands in full solidarity with Palestinian human rights organizations against this outrageous attempt to silence their important work. We are proud to be their partners in the struggle for Palestinians' human rights
In a sinister, unprecedented, and blanket attack on human rights defenders & civil society organizations, Israel’s “Defense” Minister Gantz announced,the designations of six leading Palestinian civil society organizations (CSOs) as “terror organizations,”
ביום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה אנו נזכרים בהערכה במייסדת המוקד להגנת הפרט, ד"ר לוטה זלצברגר, ניצולת מחנות הריכוז של הנאצים.
לוטה היתה פעילה קהילתית, מנהלת בית הספר לעבודה סוציאלית באוניברסיטה העברית וחברת מועצת העיר ירושלים.
זיכרה של לוטה הוא ברכה ומקור השראה עבורנו.
Israel breaks 30-year record for administratively detaining Palestinians
HaMoked received new data showing Israel holds 1,264 people in administrative detention!
Now ONE QUARTER of Palestinians in Israeli custody are held in this detention without trial!
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT TERRORISM
Along with 46 civil society organizations in Israel, we are proud to stand in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues who have been criminalized, and subjected to raids & interrogations.
We call on the international community to
#StandWithThe6
21 Israeli human rights organizations:
We stand with our Palestinian colleagues against the draconian measure to criminalize prominent civil society organizations, including
@alhaq_org
@Addameer
&
@DCIPalestine
.
The int'l community must unequivocally oppose this decision
ומה קורה כשילד מעז להתלונן על אלימות שוטרים?
היום בבג"צ: אמיר אבו סביח נ. מח"ש שסגרה תלונה של ילד מזרח ירושלמי בן 17 שנעצר באמצע הלילה וספג מכות קשות מהשוטרים שהשאירו סימנים ברורים
נוהל צבאי חדש קובע את פרטי הפרטים של החברה הפלסטינית
The criteria for foreign lecturers, who can live with their Palestinian spouse, and who is a Palestinian --
HaMoked's Director
@JessicaMontell
explains a new Israeli military procedure that micromanages Palestinian society.
Israeli human rights and civil society organizations sent an urgent letter to
@POTUS
Biden, asking him to work to change Israel's policy and prevent deterioration of the already catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
Defending Rights Every Day
Every year HaMoked helps thousands of Palestinians under Israeli occupation to realize their basic rights.
Until the occupation ends, we’ll be here – but to keep doing this work, we need your help.
Please support HaMoked:
The ceasefire is welcome - but it's not enough
HaMoked's Director
@JessicaMontell
:
"We must hold fast to a vision of the future where Palestinians are free from occupation. But in the meanwhile, people are suffering & HaMoked has the tools to assist them."
Urgent Call to Israel from health and human rights organizations:
Release hunger striker Khalil Awawdeh, at imminent risk of death, and end the policy of administrative detention
המוקד נמצא תחת מתקפה מכוערת של קבוצות לאומניות בשיתוף עם הממשלה שקמה עלינו, ששמו להן למטרה לעצור את עבודתנו.
עכשיו הזמן להראות שקהילה שלמה תומכת בזכויות האדם וניצבת לצד המוקד להגנת הפרט.
Israeli civil society organizations in a joint call to
#standwiththe6
:
The terrorism designations are intended to intimidate international donors of the 6 NGOs & of Palestinian civil society more broadly.
We urge you to maintain & even increase funding.
A 16-year-old boy, a 60-year-old woman, two young men and a woman: Six complaints reveal pattern of Israel Police brutality against East Jerusalem Palestinians
Breaking: HaMoked has just received new data from the Israel Prison Service.
A year ago, Israel held 500 Palestinians in administrative detention.
The number is now 866 Palestinians being held without charge or trial, entirely on the basis of secret information.
Last night the military demolished the home of Mrs. Haroushe, her widowed daughter and her 2 grandchildren. None of them had anything to do with the murder of the two brothers.
This is a blatant collective punishment, i.e. a war crime
התעוררנו הבוקר לשינוי שעדיין קשה לעכל: חוק האזרחות והכניסה לישראל כבר לא בתוקף. גם לאזרחים ותושבים פלסטינים יש זכות שווה להתחתן ולהקים משפחה.
עוד על היערכות המוקד לוודא שכל קורבנות החוק יוכלו לממש את זכותם לחיי משפחה:
HaMoked has written urgently to the Israel Police to lift the hermetic closure, imposed on the Shuafat refugee camp since the shooting attack last night.
This is a Jerusalem neighborhood of 20,000 people who need to get to their homes, work, school, and to hospitals.
שוב "תחקיר" מסולף נגד המוקד להגנת הפרט.
כצפוי, הניסיון להפיכה משטרית כולל סימון מגיני זכויות אדם כבוגדים ורדיפה של ארגוני חברה אזרחית.
אין שלטון חוק, ובטח שלא דמוקרטיה, בלי הגנה על זכויות האדם.
אומרים לא לריסוק החברה האזרחית!
בצילו של הכיבוש, מיליוני פלסטינים מנסים לחיות חיים של כבוד וחירות מינימליים.
עזרו לנו לעזור להם - עד שהכיבוש ייגמר
יש לנו שבוע לגייס 150,000₪ והשבוע כל תרומה תוכפל!
לתמיכה בעבודת המוקד:
ובבקשה שתפו!
Palestinian mom fights to stave off punitive home demolition
Sanaa Shalaby's legal battle is drawing attention to Israel’s policy of collective punishment -
@josephkrauss
of
@AP
HaMoked has petitioned Israel's High Court against the demolition
Israeli security forces raided office of
@DCIPalestine
, confiscating computers & files.
We stand with our colleagues in support of their work for Palestinian children's rights, and condemn efforts to limit, intimidate, or undermine their important work.
The Knesset extended law banning Palestinian family unification. Since 2003 Israeli citizens & E Jerusalem residents cannot get status for a spouse from the West Bank.
This is a racist law which uses security justifications to advance demographic motives
"We wholeheartedly reject the idea that
@amnesty
's report displays antisemitic animus and are deeply concerned about the escalating instrumentalization of allegations of antisemitism to prevent an open debate about Israel’s oppressive policies towards Palestinians" 4/6
The Israeli military arrests hundreds of Palestinian children in late night arrest raids.
These arrests are traumatic for the teenage boy being arrested, for his parents & for younger siblings.
New HaMoked research suggests trauma is not a bug of the policy - it's a feature
כבר שני עשורים שהמוקד נאבק נגד החוק הגזעני שמונע איחוד משפחות לפלסטינים
אנו מסייעים לאלפי קורבנות החוק: ילדים ללא מעמד, משפחות שנאלצות לחיות לנצח בבתיהם מכוח היתרים זמניים
גם אם זה כתוצאה מתרגילים פוליטים בתוך הימין - נחגוג את ביטולו של החוק הפוגעני הזה
Today HaMoked’s lawyers visited Salah Hammouri at Ofer military prison.
Israel stripped Salah of his Jerusalem residency on the grounds of “Breach of Allegiance” (although East Jerusalemites are part of the occupied Palestinian population & owe no allegiance to Israel)...
We therefore disagree with
@EU_Commission
's rather dogmatic position that “it is not appropriate to use the term apartheid in connection with the State of Israel”.
@EU_Commission
should not turn its back on the facts and developments on the ground 3/6
🚨 Israel now holds 2,873 administrative detainees - 800 more than last month.
This detention without charge or trial is legal only as a rare exception.
But almost 40% of Palestinians incarcerated by Israel are now held in administrative detention!
HaMoked has managed to temporarily prevent the deportation of Saleh Hammouri, a Palestinian human rights lawyer, who had his Jerusalem residency revoked for "breach of allegiance to the State of Israel".
Hammouri remains at immediate risk of deportation from his homeland...
This is outrageous. The number of administrative detainees keeps rising.
HaMoked received new data today: Israel now holds 798 Palestinians in administrative detention - an increase of 55 over last month!
השב"כ הורה לעצור ולכפות במשך שעות את נסר נוואג'עה, עובד
@btselem
ומגן זכויות אדם מוכר, מבלי שיש להם אף טענה ביטחונית אחת נגדו.
חטאו היחיד הוא עבודתו נגד גירוש קהילות פלסטיניות מדרום הר חברון ומעצרו הוא החוליה האחרונה בשרשרת התנכלויות בלתי פוסקות כנגד הקהילות האלה.
"In view of the deepening human rights crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, we consider the unfolding debate about the crime of apartheid in relation to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians not only legitimate, but absolutely necessary" 2/6
"The
@EU_Commission
should refrain from validating and fueling such political instrumentalization of antisemitism. Accordingly, we call on
@EU_Commission
to unequivocally withdraw its insinuation that
@amnesty
's report has anything to do with antisemitism." 5/6
קיצוניים מסוכנים עולים לשלטון, מבטיחים יד קשה כלפי הפלסטינים וגם "לטפל" בארגוני זכויות אדם כאיום קיומי.
יהא אשר יהא, אנחנו במוקד נחושים להמשיך, יום יום, במתן סיוע ממשי לקורבנות הכיבוש ובמאבק למען זכויות האדם.
עכשיו יותר מתמיד זקוקים לתמיכתך!
תרמו ושתפו!
Israel now holds 1,201 people in administrative detention!
"The figure is outrageous," HaMoked's Executive Director
@JessicaMontell
said. “This is a patently illegal practice. These people should be given a fair trial or released.”
Human rights organizations are an obstacle to this government's extremist agenda. That's why HaMoked is under attack.
We need your support!
Make a donation to stand for universal human rights:
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12 Israeli human rights organizations to
@JosepBorrellF
:
We also call on
@EU_Commission
to engage with the facts on which legal designations of apartheid regarding various aspects of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians are based, and to reconsider its position in this regard /END
Today Israel's High Court will hear our petition against night arrests of Palestinian children
Rather than issuing a summons, the Israeli military arrests children from their beds, even for minor suspicions.
Our research and petition:
866 Palestinians in administrative detention - the number has never been this high in the 14 years that HaMoked has been receiving this data.
According to
@btselem
, the last time the number of administrative detainees was this high was June 2003
Welcome to Israel,
@POTUS
Israeli human rights organizations urge you to prioritize protection of civilians:
- Immediate release of all hostages
- An end to bombardment of civilians, in Gaza & Israel
- Humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza
THIS MUST BE YOUR URGENT PRIORITY
HaMoked provided free legal aid to thousands of Palestinians this year, and challenged Israeli policies that violate human rights. Help us continue this work in the new year:
Israeli High Court Okays Razing Home of 13-year-old Palestinian
HaMoked CEO
@JessicaMontell
: "Shame on High Court for approving demolition in these circumstances... Even without government's judicial coup, the court fails to protect Palestinians' rights."
Israel pushes to demolish home of 13-year-old Palestinian who carried out a stabbing attack
The parents didn't know about the attack & had no way of preventing it. Now they & their 4 children may lose their home
This Israeli government explicitly states it will:
- Entrench occupation & increase violations of basic rights;
- Restrict organizations that defend Palestinians
Extremists will not deter us!
Support HaMoked - together we will defend rights EVERY DAY
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Israel's Separation Barrier & the permit regime have decimated the livelihoods of Palestinian families & entire communities.
It is long past time to dismantle the Barrier built INSIDE the West Bank.
Please RT!
HaMoked's new report, Creeping Dispossession:
What happens when a Palestinian boy complains about Police brutality in East Jerusalem?
Amir Abu Sbeih's family has been trying for 2 years to hold the police accountable for severe violence against their son. Today they've reached Israel's High Court, represented by HaMoked
Leading human rights & peace organizations in Israel urge
@JosepBorrellF
:
Insist that Israeli officials withdraw new Procedure restricting entry & stay of foreigners in the West Bank.
Palestinian society must be able to benefit from int'l cooperation
The Israeli military has just released a new version of its Procedure for Entry & Stay of Foreigners in the West Bank - now set to come into force on October 20.
It removed some of the most outrageous elements of the Procedure, but the basic problem remains...
917 Palestinians in administrative detention - highest number in 20 years
Mass detention without trial, based on secret evidence, with no effective judicial review - these are patently illegal detentions
Israel must release all administrative detainees or give them a fair trial
As argued before by hundreds of leading experts and civil society organizations, the IHRA definition is deliberately weaponized to frame legitimate criticisms of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians as antisemitism and should not be endorsed and used by the UN 2/
• מה הורי פלסטיני יכול לעשות כשילדו נעצר?
• איך המעצר משפיע על בריאות נפש של הילדים, ההורים, ושאר המשפחה?
• מדוע חוק הנוער אינו מגן על ילדים פלסטינים?
יום שני הקרוב 14.06: אירוע וירטואלי על השגרה הקשה של מעצרי ילדים פלסטינים והמאמצים להגן על זכויותיהם
The Separation Barrier isolates 11,500 dunams (11.5 sq km) of land from Anin village.
Farmers can only access their land with a permit to cross the gate.
But it's only open 2 days/week.
All other days, they have to use Barta'a checkpoint=>
A 5-MINUTE WALK IS NOW A 90 MINUTE DRIVE
Thread on FOUR Israeli government measures to revoke citizenship & residency rights from Palestinians.
Some are collective punishments, targeting innocent family members.
All ONLY apply to Arabs. No Jew convicted of terrorism would ever lose citizenship or be deported. 1/9...
המוקד להגנת הפרט עומד בסולידריות מלאה לצד ארגוני זכויות האדם הפלסטיניים נגד הניסיון המקומם להפסיק את פעילותם החשובה. אנחנו גאים להיות שותפים שלהם במאבק למען זכויות האדם של הפלסטינים.
Figures obtained by HaMoked show Israel is holding over 1,000 Palestinians without charge or trial, the highest number of administrative detainees since 2003
The Israeli government misuses the IHRA definition as a coercive tactic and tool to silence criticism of its repressive policies vis-à-vis the Palestinians. It does so to discredit and discourage peaceful opposition to its entrenching occupation and annexation of Palestine 3/
21 ארגונים ישראליים עומדים בסולידריות עם עמיתינו הפלסטינים נגד הכרזת שר הביטחון
הפללתם של ארגוני חברה אזרחית פלסטיניים, ביניהם ארגוני זכויות אדם, היא צעד פחדני האופייני למשטרים אפלים ואוטוריטריים.
אנו קוראים לשרי ממשלת ישראל ולקהילה הבינלאומית להתנגד להחלטת גנץ בכל תוקף.
"'This is about demographic engineering and isolating Palestinian society from the outside world,' says
@JessicaMontell
, executive director of HaMoked, which has petitioned Israeli Court against the regulations."
Follow
@HaMokedRights
for updates on this
We wholeheartedly welcome the UN’s commitment to countering antisemitism and all forms of racism & intolerance, and stand ready to assist in this regard /End
11 human rights organizations in Israel urge UN not to promote IHRA definition of antisemitism:
Palestinian Activist to Be Held Without Trial for 4 Months – Over Facebook Posts He Says Aren't His
Lawyers say that many Palestinians have been held without trial since the war began for allegations that wouldn't typically result in this protocol
בשנת 1988 הקימה לוטה את המוקד להגנת הפרט
"ההישג הגדול של המוקד" היא סיפרה "זה שהוא הפך לכתובת לאיש הקטן, לפלסטיני שאין לו כסף לעורך דין. לכל אחד זכויות בסיסיות שהן אוניברסאליות: לנוע, חיי משפחה, חופש ביטוי, בריאות, חינוך, הגנה משפטית. מטרת המוקד להבטיח שהחוק מיושם באופן שוויוני".
Israel promised that, barring security concerns, Palestinians would have virtually unfettered access to the lands on the other side of the Separation Barrier.
Fast forward 18 years of permit bureaucracy, locked gates and ever increasing restrictions -
The Israeli government published a list of 300 Palestinians to be released, including 33 women and the remainder 14-18-year-old boys.
Among those to be released are Palestinian women & children in administrative detention – a detention without charge or trial. 3/4
The Gaza Strip: An Israeli crisis, not a climate crisis
Regardless of creative measures to ease the water or energy crises in Gaza, the Israeli gov't must decide that isolating Gaza from the West Bank & Israel is immoral & ineffective & must be stopped
New data on Palestinians incarcerated by Israel:
The largest category is administrative detainees - now almost 40% of all Palestinian prisoners and detainees are held without charge or trial!
Call to HaMoked: 2 years ago a young woman got a medical permit to go from Gaza to West Bank. She stayed & married a West Bank man.
She was just arrested; because she's registered as a Gaza resident, she's considered an "illegal alien" in West Bank.
She's battling stage 4 cancer
"The occupation & apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories have made Jewish supremacy the de facto law of the land. This new government seeks to make it official policy.
We will stand firm to protect Palestinians' human rights & call on everyone to stand with us"
ישראל מחזיקה 967 אנשים במעצר מנהלי - שיא של 20 שנה
מעצרים סיטונאים ללא משפט, ללא ביקורת שיפוטית אפקטיבית ועל בסיס מידע חסוי בלבד => הם מעצרים פסולים בתכלית
יש לשחרר את העצורים המנהליים או להעמידם לדין לאלתר
"When I saw this new outpost, I felt the magnitude of the injustice. Settlers bring in caravans & take over land with ease. Before they even move in, they have a paved road & are connected to electricity & water"
Basil al-Adraa from S. Mt Hebron in
@972mag
At least 14 of the new administrative detainees are Jerusalem Palestinians.
More from
@btselem
on Israel's extensive use of administrative detention, holding people for months & even years, with no trial or even any charges, based on "secret evidence”:
Here's the judgement of Israel's High Court enabling this punitive home demolition, collective punishment of a whole family for act of 13 year-old boy:
The boy will spend the rest of his life in prison. Why should the FAMILY lose their home?
2/
Just another day in East Jerusalem's Shuafat Refugees Camp. Police being deployed to secure the demolition of the home of Mohammed Zalabani.
Zalabani, aged 13, tried to stab a police officer last February. In the scuffle, a policeman accidentally killed a fellow officer
New data show big increase in detainees, reflecting wave of arrests over the past few weeks.
Israel now holds 4,520 Palestinian "security" inmates:
2,496 sentenced prisoners,
1,529 remand detainees,
495 administrative detainees - 60 more than last month!
לא ח"כ גוטליב, לצערנו, בג"ץ לא מונע הריסת בתים של משפחות כענישה קולקטיבית.
ובג"ץ דווקא אישר לכנסת למנוע תביעות של פלסטינים.
חשוב לתקן את השקרים והצגת השווא המתלהמת אך לא לפספס את העיקר:
=> בנאום פשיסטי (אין מילה אחרת) חברת כנסת ממפלגת השלטון קוראת לפגיעה בחפים מפשע ללא שום רסן.
New data from IPS: Israel is holding 648 people in administrative detention - the highest number since August 2016.
This is a detention without charge or trial, that can be renewed indefinitely, solely on the basis of secret evidence.
On Yom HaShoah we pay tribute to our founder, Dr. Lotte Salzberger, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
Lotte was a social worker & member of the Jerusalem City Council who worked to empower local communities.
Lotte’s memory is a blessing and a source of inspiration for us.
בצילום: לוטה מעידה במשפטו של אדולף אייכמן.
לוטה העידה על כך שאייכמן ראיין אותה ואת אחותה לאחר שהן הועברו למחנה הריכוז טרזיינשטט. הוא איים שאם תספר למישהו על הפיתרון הסופי להשמדת היהודים, היא ואחותה "תעלינה בארובה". למרות הסיכון, לוטה סיפרה על כך לכל מי שיכלה, אבל איש לא האמין לה.
This political context is completely ignored by the organizations now pressuring the UN to endorse the IHRA definition for its upcoming Action Plan. Some of these organizations play a leading role in the instrumentalization of the IHRA definition 4/