Tag: Denial Right to Services
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Apartheid and the suppression of native language – by Alya Zoabi, Mondoweiss
Palestinian citizens of Israel experience systematic marginalisation and discrimination in a wide number of areas, including the speaking and writing of their own language. In 2018, the Israeli government passed […]
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Israel continues to target Al-Aqsa Mosque under new government – by Dr Adnan Abu Amer, Middle East Monitor
On July 18, the Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett claimed, in both English and Hebrew, that Jews should have “freedom of worship” in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which directly challenged the […]
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Israel wants voucher system for foreign aid to Gaza – minister – by Dan Williams, Reuters
On July 13, Omer Barlev, Israel’s internal security minister, said that Naftali Bennett, the country’s prime minister, wants to introduce vouchers for the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Gaza […]
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Israeli army shutdown of health organization will have catastrophic consequences for Palestinian healthcare – Amnesty International
As the occupying power, Israel has a legal obligation under the Fourth Geneva Convention to protect the rights of all Palestinians, including their right to health. However, Israel is not […]
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Israel’s Supreme Court Rejects Palestinian Appeal to Establish School – Middle East Eye
Israel’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal to establish an Arabic school in Nof HaGalil, a town in the north of Israel on April 20. Over a third (37 percent) of […]
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Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Calls on UN Committee to Recognise Israel’s Discrimination as Apartheid
“Israel has created an institutionalised regime of racial domination and oppression over the Palestinian people as a whole, using the strategic fragmentation of the indigenous Palestinian people and of the oPt as a main tool for the maintenance of its apartheid regime, which predates its ratification of ICERD and is rooted in the foundational laws of the State of Israel, its discriminatory policies and practices.”
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Captive Markets, Captive Lives | Palestinian Workers in Israeli Settlements
This report by Al-Haq provides insight into the inhumane treatment of Palestinians who work in Illegal Israeli settlements, and it illustrates how their fundamental rights are systematically denied and disregarded, including by a dual legal system that privileges Jewish workers and upholds discriminatory working arrangements.
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“COVID-19 vaccinations are proof of Israel’s medical apartheid” – by Diana Battu, Al-Jazeera
The vaccination process is another example of how Israel continues to privilege the Jewish people over the Palestinian people in the same territory of the West Bank. As a start, Palestinians living […]
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“Vaccine Apartheid: Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick on Israel’s “Indifference to Palestinian Health”” – Democracy Now
“Israel has had the fastest vaccination rollout in the entire world, with 40% of Israelis already fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but Palestinians in the Occupied Territories have received almost no doses […]
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“One side only” – by Michael Brown, The Electronic Intifada
“The ‘joke’ works because Israel has vaccinated Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank while discriminating against millions of Palestinians in the same area, contrary to its obligations under international […]