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HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual is an Israeli human rights organization whose main objective is to assist Palestinians of the Occupied Territories whose rights are violated due to Israel's policies.
This site contains information relating to these human rights violations. It gives the texts of Israeli laws and regulations, including those of the Military Government; international conventions; petitions to the Israeli High Court of Justice; claims for compensation for damages; decisions by Israeli and other courts; and other official documents and reports.

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02.02.10
In a petition filed by HaMoked against the forced removal of a Palestinian police officer from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip, the state notified the court that it was revoking the deportation order and releasing the officer from custody: The police officer was held in detention close to ten months on a baseless claim regarding “illegal presence” in the West Bank
02.02.10
Israeli human rights organizations warn: Targeting of Human Rights Organizations Destroys Israeli Democracy
31.01.10
HCJ hastens and prematurely deletes a petition file by HaMoked against the forced removal of a Palestinian from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip: The court is satisfied with the state’s notice regarding its intent to revoke the deportation order and replace it with an administrative detention warrant without providing the petitioners due opportunity to respond to the state’s claims
24.01.10
Human rights community to Israeli Prime Minister: Time is running out. Establish independent inquiry into Operation Cast Lead
18.01.10
The HCJ continues its recent hard line and rejects a petition by HaMoked and other human rights organizations to allow relatives of prisoners from the Gaza Strip to visit their loved ones who are incarcerated in Israel: In a short judgment, the court rules, inter alia, that the families’ right to visit their loved ones is not a basic humanitarian right and therefore, Israel is exempt from any obligation to the families
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For over forty years, Israel has systematically violated the rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and its obligations under international law. Israel has opened the doors of its judicial system to the Palestinian population and entrusted its courts with the role of overseeing the lawfulness of the military administration, the actions of its agents and the bureaucratic products of the occupation. The High Court of Justice (HCJ) has abandoned the role with which it was entrusted – Through judgments which sanction Israeli aggression, the HCJ allows Israel to continue the occupation under the false pretense of safeguarding human rights.

In this section we present case commentaries of judgments rendered by the HCJ and the Courts for Administrative Affairs which demonstrate this conduct in recent years.
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