No Compensation Law

Challenging a New Amendment to the Civil Wrongs (Liability of the State) Law – 1952, which Exempts Israel from Compensation Claims for Property Damage and Injury of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

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12 December 2006

September 2005 Petition Challenging the Amended Compensation Law

H.C. 8276/05, Adalah, et. al. v. The Minister of Defense, et. al.

The petition was submitted in September 2005 by Adalah, HaMoked and ACRI on behalf of the three organizations and Al-Haq, The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights-Gaza. B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights, The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Rabbis for Human Rights. The petitioners demanded that the Supreme Court declare void new amendments to the Civil Wrongs (Liability of the State) Law, which deny residents of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, citizens of “Enemy States,” and activists or members of “a Terrorist Organization,” the right to compensation from the state of Israel for damages caused to them by the Israeli security forces, including those damages caused to them outside of the context of a military operation. On 12 December 2006, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling delivered by nine justices, decided that the State of Israel cannot exempt itself from paying compensation to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza who have been harmed by the Israeli military. As a result of this ruling, Palestinians who have been harmed by the Israeli military since September 2000 can again seek compensation in Israeli courts.

The Petition (English | Hebrew)
The petition was translated into English by HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual