Volume 64, September 2009 www.adalah.org Accountability for War Crimes in Gaza Adalah and partner human rights orgs urge States to support Goldstone Report on Gaza and demand accountability for victims at the UN Human Rights Council Statement of Palestinian human rights orgs in support of recommendations of UN Fact-Finding Mission on Gaza, effective judicial redress and protection of victims’ rights Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network calls on EU to support Goldstone Report Seven human rights organizations present UN Fact-Finding Mission on Gaza, headed by Justice Richard Goldstone, with a grave report into alleged violations of the laws of war Article From Plunder to Plunder: Israel and the Property Rights of the Palestinian Refugees Suhad Bishara, Adalah Attorney and Director of the Land and Planning Unit Employment Rights Following lawsuit by Adalah, Sawt el-Amel and Tel Aviv University Human Rights Clinic, Labor Court issues temporary injunction preventing dismissal of Arab railway workers Education Rights Adalah petitions Supreme Court demanding the opening of the first high school for Arab Bedouin students in the unrecognized villages in the Naqab as the Education Ministry committed to do in 2007   Adalah petitions district court demanding that Education Ministry provides personal assistant to disabled Arab Bedouin child during school hours  Trying to go back to school: Misgav Regional Council in the north and Beer el-Sabe Municipality in the south cancel or place undue barriers on school transport for Arab students  Prisoners' Rights Adalah submits appeal to Supreme Court against prohibition on Palestinian Arab prisoner, a citizen of Israel, from marrying Palestinian woman prisoner from the OPT because she has no permit to stay in Israel  Ofer Prison Administration forces Palestinian women to strip completely naked as a condition to visit their relatives incarcerated at the prison Land and Planning Rights Adalah to Supreme Court: Arab owners of land in Lajoun entitled to return of their private property confiscated by the State of Israel in 1953 Adalah’s Newsletter is a monthly publication issued in Arabic, Hebrew and English. It highlights Adalah’s main activities, provides analysis of human rights issues, and links to new reports. Suggestions, articles and commentaries from our readers are welcome. View previous volumes Arabic Hebrew Subscribe a Friend New Report  On the eve of the 9th Anniversary of the October 2000 killings, Adalah publishes a new report:  “Prohibited Protest” On 27 December 2008, Israel initiated an extensive military offensive in the Gaza Strip. The operation, named "Cast Lead", consisted of 23 days of bombings and shelling from the air, sea and land, in which the Palestinian civilian population suffered damage and injury to an unprecedented extent. Extensive damage was caused to residential houses, as well as to commercial buildings and public infrastructure. Crowds of Palestinian citizens of Israel came out into the streets to demonstrate against the military operation and to protest against the severe injury to the civilian population of Gaza, which was occurring daily. The Arab citizen protestors were joined by Jewish Israelis who objected to the military operation, and who also wished to exercise their right to protest against it and demand its cessation. The report describes the manner in which the law enforcement authorities responded to the protestors against the military operation in Gaza. The report shows how the police, the State Prosecutor’s Office, the General Security Services (GSS or Shabak), the courts and even certain academic institutions made arrest the easiest and fastest method of suppressing the protest against the military operations, and indicates the ease with which a demonstrator's rights can be denied. The authors of this report are Adalah Attorneys Abeer Baker and Rana Asali.  More …  New Reports by Partners Child Rights Violations during Operation Cast Lead Sept. 2009 (Al Mezan and DCI-Palestine) "Through Women´s Eyes: A PCHR Report on the Gender-Specific Impact and Consequences of Operation Cast Lead" (PCHR) Adalah’s Fourth Annual Law Students’ Conference Register Now! 6-8 October 2009, Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salaam Full Program   Main office: 94 Yaffa Street, PO Box 8921, Haifa 31090 Tel: (972)-4-950-1610 Fax: (972)-4-950-3140 Naqab office: 28 Reger Ave # 35 Beer el Sabe, Israel Tel: (972)-8-665-0740 Fax: (972)-8-665-0853 adalah@adalah.org www.adalah.org

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