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Al-Haq Sends Letters to EU Member States Calling for Immediate and Effective Measures to Ensure that Israel Respects the Democratic Process of the Palestinian Elections
On 05 April 2021, Al-Haq sent letters to European Union (EU) member states, in relation to Israel’s attempts to impair and undermine the prospect of conducting free, fair, and simultaneous...
16 Palestinian and Regional Organisations Send Joint Submission to the UN Secretary-General on Intimidation and Reprisals for Cooperation with the UN
On 15 April 2021, 16 Palestinian and regional civil society organisations sent a joint submission the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, highlighting Israel’s attacks against civil society o...
The Legal Architecture of Apartheid
The following briefing paper examining the Legal Architecture of Israel's Apartheid, by Dr. Susan Power, Head of Legal Research and Advocacy, Al-Haq was published by AARDI, (Against Apartheid and...
Al-Haq Highlights Israel’s Apartheid Regime and Calls for Accountability at the 46th Session of the Human Rights Council
In March 2021, Al-Haq participated in the 46th Regular Session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, which was virtually held between 22 February 2021 and 24 March 2021. In collaborati...
PHROC Submits Petition in Response to Palestine’s Inter-State Complaint against Israel under ICERD
On 6 April 2021, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) submitted a petition in response to the inter-state complaint lodged with the UN committee for the Elimination of All Forms...
Al-Haq Participates at Side Event to HRC 46: Israel’s Health Apartheid Must Be Recognised and Condemned by the UN and Member States
On 16 March 2021, Palestinian, regional, and international civil society organisations held a joint webinar titled “Israeli Health Apartheid during COVID-19” in parallel to the 4...
On World Health Day, Al-Haq Recounts Israel’s Systematic Denial of Palestinians’ Right to Health
On World Health Day, Al-Haq draws attention to the lives of Palestinians who are systematically targeted by Israel’s unlawful policies and practices, embedded in Israel’s settler coloniali...
Land Day: Commemorating Historical and Ongoing Land Expropriation and Suppression of Palestinian Resistance
On 30 March 1976, Israeli police killed six Palestinian citizens of Israel as they were protesting Israel’s expropriation of thousands of dunums of Palestinian land in the Galilee. Despite the I...
Land Day 2021: The Crimes of the Occupation and Dispossession of Palestinians Continue
Land Day commemorates the death of six Palestinians and the injuring of 70 others by Israeli gunfire in Nazareth in 1976 during protests against Israeli land expropriation. Land Day also serves to rem...
Special Focus: No to Second Oslo: Al-Haq Condemns the Palestinian Authority Gas Agreement, Subjecting Generations of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to Corporate Capture and Perpetual Closure
On 21 February 2021, the Palestinian Authority’s sovereign wealth fund, the Palestinian Investment Fund, signed an MOU with Egyptian company Egyptian Natural Gas Holdings (EGAS) to develop the G...
Al-Haq Condemns Israel’s Denial of Freedom of Movement of Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki as an Egregious Interference with Judicial Process at the International Criminal Court
Following a meeting on Thursday 18 March 2021 with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, on Sunday 21 March 2021, Palestine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs...
World Water Day: Israel’s Discriminatory Policies in Palestine Constitute a Systemic Attack on the Palestinian People’s Right to Water and Sanitation at a Time of Unprecedented Global Pandemic
Since the initial observation of the United Nations World Water Day on 22 March 1993, Israel, as the Occupying Power in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), has continued to consolidate and expan...