On the occasion of the upcoming end of Israel‘s Moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank, which formally terminates on 26 September 2010, Al-Haq issues a position paper unmasking Israel‘s alleged settlement construction "freeze", providing an analysis of its terms and objectives under international law. Al-Haq‘s legal analysis concludes that Israel‘s long-standing systematic violations of international law through the construction and maintenance of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory cannot be remedied by the hollow political measures embodied by Israel‘s Moratorium.

Read the Position Paper: Unmasking the “Freeze”: Israel’s alleged Moratorium on Settlement Construction Whitewashes Egregious Violations of International Law