Israeli Law

A Palestinian rights organisation has warned against the dangers of the law approved by the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Law and Constitution which authorises Israeli courts to prevent certain...

The Israeli government's Legislation Committee has approved a new law that will place further restrictions on Palestinian prisoners and prevent them from meeting their lawyers for a whole year....

This morning (27.07.2010), Israeli forces embarked on the total destruction of al-Araqeeb village in the Negev desert. The village was cordoned off and its inhabitants expelled before demolitions began....

An Israeli economics magazine said on Sunday that the financial repercussions of Israel's "Operation Pillar of Cloud" are such that the deficit in the government's 2013 budget has been...

Israel's Prime Minister is intending to enact the Levy Report to legalise settlements in the occupied West Bank under Israeli law, Likud member of Knesset Danny Danon said on...

In a series of attacks against Palestinian-owned properties, illegal Jewish settlers torched and vandalised a West Bank mosque in the village of Jabaa, five miles from Jerusalem and Ramallah,...

Israel's Knesset (parliament) is due to hold a special session on Wednesday to discuss a bill which would authorise Jewish settlers to build on private Palestinian land, especially in...

The Director of Jerusalem's Religious Endowments (Waqf) Foundation, Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, has declined an invitation from the Israeli parliament to discuss the effects of the demolition of monuments in...

A Jerusalem-based body has condemned the Israeli Citizenship Law which has been announced by the authorities. The Islamic-Christian Commission in Support of Jerusalem and the Holy Sites said that...

Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups have revealed that 20,000 children from Jerusalem are denied permission to live with their parents in the occupied city of Jerusalem because, the...

Former Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi broke his silence yesterday for the first time since he left Syria in December, saying that he left the country because he couldn't...

On Monday Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reported that two Israeli human rights organisations filed a petition to the Central Israeli Court in Jerusalem against the Israeli structural map Jerusalem 2000....

A professor of international law has revealed that the most recent poll published by the Israeli occupation forces indicate that Israel has revoked the "permanent residence" status of 14,087...

Israeli Economics and Trade Minister, Naftali Bennett, supported by Finance Minister, Yair Lapid, has suggested a draft law that obliges the government to put any political agreements with the...

Palestinians protesters organised a candlelight demonstration on Thursday night to protest against an Israeli court ruling allowing parts of the Separation Wall to be built in the Wadi Cremisan...

On Thursday at dawn, the Israeli occupation released Tariq Qedan and Jaafar Izzidin, two Palestinian hunger strikers who have been on strike for 93 days. Qedan, 42, and Izzidin,...

On Sunday, the Israeli occupation handed over an 'administrative destruction notice' to the owner of a six-flat building under construction in the Beit-Haneena neighbourhood in Jerusalem and detained three...

On Tuesday evening, an Israeli court extended the administrative detention of four members of the Palestinian Legislative Council from the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in the West Bank. According...

According to the Jerusalem Newspaper on May 23, 2013, the website for Israel's Seventh Channel television station said that on Wednesday afternoon, the Knesset has approved the first reading...

Israel's Likud Party, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has proposed a basic law with constitutional status which, if passed by the Knesset, would lead to the annexation of...

The Israeli occupation authorities have placed a 12 year old Palestinian boy under house arrest after his release on bail. Mahran Al-Jabari was detained in Jerusalem last Friday along...

Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli prisons began an open-ended hunger strike on Monday in protest against their detention for extended periods of time without trial, Palestine's Prisoners Centre said....

A Palestinian mother was arrested on Tuesday when she went to Israel's Hasharon Prison to visit her 16 year old son. Shadad Al-Awar's mother was detained in the waiting...

An Israeli Magistrate Court on Monday extended the detention of chief guard of al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Najeh Bkeerat, for the second time. The court said that more time is...

The Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs in Israel has ratified a new law relating to the "rights of servants of the state". The proposed legislation will give demobilised soldiers...

The Knesset, Israel's parliament, has approved a "racist" bill which will lead to the eviction of "illegal" Palestinian Bedouin communities from the Negev Desert occupied in 1948 by Israel,...

Jordan's House of Representatives has condemned the Israeli parliament's approval of the Prawer-Begin Plan which allows for the confiscation of land and displacement of the indigenous population in the...

An Israeli court has tied its recommendations to the interests of the settlement project in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, Palestinians have claimed. The allegation was made following...

The Israeli authorities have begun moves to evacuate about 1,300 Palestinians from eight Palestinians villages in south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on the pretext that 'they...

An activist for prisoners' issues, Fo'ad Al-Khofosh, has called on the Palestinian Authority to clarify the terms of the prisoner release deal agreed with Israel as part of the...

A Palestinian rights centre has revealed that hundreds of Palestinians are serving life sentences in Israeli jails. The Al-Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights said in a...

The Israeli occupation army has delivered demolition notices to the Palestinian residents of Yatta village in the south of the West Bank relating to 10 wells, a tent and...