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Supreme Court
Petition
H.C.
9132/07, Jaber al-Basyouni Ahmed v.
The Prime Minister (pending)
Human Rights Organizations Petition
Supreme Court Demanding an Injunction against Israeli Government to
Prevent
Disruption to Supply of Electricity and Fuel to Gaza
Ten
Palestinian and Israeli human rights
organizations, in cooperation with the deputy director of a water
company for
towns along the coast of Gaza
and a farmer from Beit Hanoun, petitioned the Supreme Court of Israel
on 28 October 2007. The
petitioners demanded the immediate issuance of an injunction against
the
Minister of Public Security and the Prime Minister to prevent them from
disrupting the supply of electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip. The
petitioners argued that the government’s recent decision to interrupt
electricity and fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip is illegal, and if
implemented,
would endanger innocent civilians.
It is
likely to endanger the functioning of hospitals and sewage and water
services,
and will interrupt the operation of medical equipment as well as vital
household electrical equipment such as refrigerators, including those
needed to
refrigerate essential medical supplies. “Deliberately obstructing the
civilian
infrastructure in the Gaza Strip is illegal. International law does not
allow
‘minor damage’: It bans collective punishment entirely,” argued the
petitioners.
Petitioners
include: Adalah:
The Legal Center for Arab Minority
Rights in Israel; Gisha - Legal Center for Freedom of Movement;
HaMoked: Center
for the Defence of the Individual; Physicians for Human Rights-Israel; The
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; The Public Committee Against
Torture in
Israel; Gaza Community Mental Health Programme; B’Tselem - The Israeli
Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories;
Al-Haq; Al
Mezan Center for Human Rights
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UN Special Consultative Status, ECOSOC
Member, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network 
