On 13 February 2019, Al-Haq sent a submission to the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, in response to a call for submissions on the surveillance industry and human rights, concerned with studying the obligations and responsibilities of States and businesses to ensure compliance with human rights standards. Al-Haq’s submission, entitled “The Surveillance Industry: Israel’s Marketing of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)”, focuses on the numerous rights of Palestinians violated by Israel’s countless policies and practices that seek to harass, monitor, and control them. These practices range from installing checkpoints throughout the OPT, to the Annexation Wall and other barriers on movement that often include surveillance technologies, and to holding Palestinians on charges related to freedom of speech and opinion.

On 20 January 2019, Al-Haq emailed and posted registered letters to the President and CEO of Bombardier, Quebec, Canada, and the President of Bombardier Transportation, Berlin, Germany, putting them on notice of Bombardier’s potential complicity in war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT). In January 2018, Bombardier Transportation concluded an agreement for $126 million to supply 54 Twindexx Vario double-deck coaches to Israel Railways, which will be used for transport on the Tel Aviv - Jerusalem rail link expected to come into operation in 2020.

On Friday, 15 February 2019, the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) continued to use excessive force against Palestinian peaceful protesters along the Gaza fence, injuring 67, including 19 children, two paramedics and one journalist. This Friday’s protests saw a limited number of Palestinians who threw stones or Molotov cocktails or ignited car tires. The protests started at approximately 2:30 pm and lasted until about 5:30 pm of the same day, with thousands of Palestinians, including women and children, arriving at various areas along the Gaza fence to wave flags and chant national slogans, calling for their right to return and an end to Israel’s prolonged occupation and closure.

Date: 16 February 2019

Al-Mghayyer is a Palestinian village, located about 22 kilometres to the northeast of Ramallah City. Approximately 94 per cent of the village is located in Area C, an area over which Israel retains full security and administrative control according to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement (Oslo II, 1995).[1] Since 1967, Israel has declared areas in the eastern part of the village as closed military zones, confiscating 719 dunums of village lands as of 2010,[2] for the construction of Israeli military checkpoints, military bases, parts of the Annexation Wall, and an Israeli-only-used by-pass road (No. 458) on its land for the sole benefit of nearby Israeli settlements. The village of Al-Mghayyer is surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements such as “Mizpe Rahel” to the north of the village, and outposts, including “Adei Ad” to the northwest.