• Manal Alsaafin holds a photograph of her and her husband, Abdullah, whom Israeli authorities have prevented from returning to his home in the West Bank since 2009 on the basis that they have “registered” him as a resident of the Gaza Strip, not the West Bank.
    © 2012 Bill Van Esveld/Human Rights Watch
    Israel: End Restrictions on Palestinian Residency
    Israeli policies on Palestinian residency have arbitrarily denied thousands of Palestinians the ability to live in, and travel to and from, the West Bank and Gaza. Israel should immediately stop denying or cancelling the residency of Palestinians and close family members with deep ties to the West Bank and Gaza, and end blanket bans on processing their applications for residency.
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Israel and the Occupied Territories

  • An Unsettling Situation
    May 11, 2012
    Europe provides millions of euros in humanitarian aid to Palestinians harmed by Israel's settlement policies. These same policies have hindered aid efforts: the Israeli military has destroyed European-funded projects, and imposes planning restrictions that have reduced European donors to assisting Palestinians rendered homeless.
  • Israel: Stop Jailing People Without Charge or Trial
    May 2, 2012

    Israel should immediately charge or release people jailed without charge or trial under so-called administrative detention.

  • EU Must Back Palestinians Cut Off from Farmlands by Israel
    Apr 16, 2012

    By preventing Palestinian farmers from reaching their land for most of the year, Israel is reducing many of them to poverty - claims campaign group.

  • Gaza: Hamas Should Halt Executions
    Apr 10, 2012

    The Hamas authorities’ execution of three convicted prisoners by hanging on April 7, 2012, highlights the need for a moratorium on capital punishment in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch, which opposes the death penalty in all cases as cruel and inhuman punishment, said the persistence of unfair trials made the executions particularly egregious.

  • Israel: Palestinians Cut Off From Farmlands
    Apr 5, 2012

    A court ruling upholding a military permit system has had the result that a year later West Bank Palestinians in one affected area are virtually unable to work on their farmlands, on the anniversary of the High Court of Justice ruling.

  • Palestinian Authority/Israel: Escalating Assault on Free Expression
    Apr 3, 2012
    The Palestinian Authority (PA) should not criminally prosecute Yusuf al-Shayeb, a journalist detained without charge on March 26, 2012, and released on April 2.
  • For Israel’s Palestinian Citizens, an Issue Unsettled
    Mar 30, 2012
    While Palestinian aspirations for a state on the land Israel occupied in 1967 are well known, the importance of land to the Palestinian minority within Israel, some 20 percent of the country’s population, is often overlooked. March 30 is marked by Palestinians as “Land Day,” a pivotal event in their struggle against discriminatory land policies.
  • Israel: Revoke Rights Defender’s Travel Ban
    Mar 2, 2012

    Having decided to permit Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin to travel abroad from the West Bank for the first time in six years, Israel should now revoke his travel ban.

  • Israel Relents on Hunger Striker Khader Adnan
    Feb 21, 2012
    Khader Adnan may live to see his 34th birthday after all. He has been on hunger strike for 66 days to protest against his “administrative detention,” which allows the Israeli military to detain Palestinians without charge, indefinitely, on the basis of evidence the detainees are not allowed to see. Today, in the face of mounting pressure, Israel reportedly promised to release him in April if it could not discover any new evidence against him. His lawyer said that Adnan will end his strike.
  • Israel: Hunger Striker’s Life at Risk
    Feb 11, 2012
    Israeli military authorities should immediately charge or release a Palestinian detained since December 17, 2011, without charge on the basis of secret evidence that he is not allowed to see or contest. Khader Adnan Mousa went on hunger strike on December 18 to protest his administrative detention.
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