Selected Reports & Studies
Executive Summary:
In the 2005 EU-Israel Action Plan under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the EU and Israel committed to engage in a political dialogue and cooperate to “promote and protect rights of minorities, including enhancing political, economic, social and cultural opportunities for all citizens and lawful residents”. Five years later, however, not only has the situation of the Palestinian...
By Brett Schaefer. * Abstract: In September 2011, the Palestinian Authority requested membership for “Palestine” in the United Nations-violating its commitment under the 1993 Oslo Accords to seek statehood through negotiations with Israel. Prospective U.N. member states must first receive a recommendation from the Security Council. The Obama Administration has vowed to veto, if necessary, such a recommendation for U.N....
According to a new report by UNRWA, despite modest economic good news in the West Bank, the number of unemployed refugees grew by nearly one per cent in the first half of the year, to over 50,000 people, as unemployment generally in the West Bank declined. At 27.4 per cent, the unemployment rate for refugees is about 5 percentage points...
This report focuses on East Jerusalem and forms part of a series by OCHA which examines the humanitarian impact of Israeli measures, such as the Barrier, settlements and planning and zoning restrictions, on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The report mainly focuses on the area unilaterally annexed to Israel and included within the municipal boundary of Jerusalem following...
Violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank undermines the physical security and livelihoods of Palestinians living under Israel’s prolonged military occupation. This violence takes place in a climate of impunity, with the Israeli authorities failing to adequately enforce the rule of law against Israeli settlers. The root cause of the settler violence phenomenon is Israel’s decades-long policy of illegally...
By: The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel & Physicians for Human Rights – Israel....
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) will submit complaints to the UN's Special Rapporteurs – claiming that Israel's policy in East Jerusalem violates international law and may constitute a war crime. In a press conference held this morning (Monday, October 31st) ICAHD launched its latest report on illegal Israeli practices in East Jerusalem: 'No Home, No Homeland: A New...
Summary:
Since the establishment of limited Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the mid-1990s, the U.S. government has committed over $4 billion in bilateral assistance to the Palestinians, who are among the world’s largest per capita recipients of international foreign aid. Successive Administrations have requested aid for the Palestinians to support at least three major U.S....
The solitary confinement of prisoners and detainees (hereinafter: prisoners) in prison facilities in Israel is carried out in various ways and for various purposes, but its severe impact on the prisoners is the same. The solitary confinement of Palestinian political prisoners who are classified as “security prisoners” is doubly harsh because of the restrictions imposed on their contacts outside of...
Source: B’Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, July 2011....
