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                                          and Partners Send Joint
                                          Submission to the UN Human
                                          Rights Committee on Israel’s
                                          Violation and Failed
                                          Implementation of the ICCPR</h1>
                                         
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                                          On 31 January 2022, Al-Haq,
                                          “Law in the Service of Man”,
                                          Addameer, Prisoner Support and
                                          Human Rights Association,
                                          Cairo Institute for Human
                                          Rights Studies, Habitat
                                          International Coalition –
                                          Housing and Land Rights
                                          Network, the Jerusalem Legal
                                          Aid and Human Rights Center,
                                          Al Mezan Center for Human
                                          Rights, and the Community
                                          Action Center/ Al-Quds
                                          University submitted a joint
                                          parallel report to the United
                                          Nations Human Rights Committee
                                          (HRC), detailing Israel’s
                                          violation and failed
                                          implementation of the
                                          International Covenant on
                                          Civil and Political Rights
                                          (ICCPR). The submission
                                          further showed that Israel’s
                                          violations of the ICCPR are
                                          the result of its entrenching
                                          and maintaining of an
                                          apartheid regime over the
                                          Palestinian people as a whole,
                                          including through its
                                          prolonged belligerent
                                          occupation.</p>
                                        <p style="margin: 10px
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                                          16px;line-height:
                                          150%;text-align: left;">The
                                          77-page submission showed that
                                          Israel has been establishing,
                                          entrenching, and
                                          operationalising its apartheid
                                          regime through strategic
                                          fragmentation of the
                                          Palestinian People as a whole.
                                          The parallel report
                                          illustrated how Israel is
                                          violating the Palestinian
                                          right to self-determination by
                                          preventing the Palestinian
                                          people from exercising
                                          sovereignty over their land
                                          and natural recourses. It
                                          further highlighted the
                                          restrictions that Israel, the
                                          Occupying Power, imposes on
                                          Palestinians preventing them
                                          from agricultural development,
                                          in violation of Article 1 of
                                          the ICCPR. Moreover, Israel’s
                                          discriminatory nationality and
                                          residency laws, policies and
                                          practices violate Article 2 of
                                          the ICCPR prohibiting
                                          discrimination, including
                                          racial discrimination.</p>
                                        <p style="margin: 10px
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                                          150%;text-align: left;">The
                                          report exposed that Israel’s
                                          use of unnecessary and
                                          disproportionate force and the
                                          denial of access to medical
                                          care to Palestinians, as
                                          violating the Palestinians’
                                          right to life, enshrined in
                                          Article 6 of the ICCPR. It
                                          further demonstrated that
                                          Israel’s torture and
                                          ill-treatment of Palestinians
                                          during interrogation and
                                          detentions, and its inhuman
                                          practice of withholding
                                          Palestinian bodies are in
                                          violation of the prohibition
                                          of torture as stipulated by
                                          Article 7 of the ICCPR.
                                          Moreover, Israel’s arbitrary
                                          detention, including the
                                          campaign of mass arrests and
                                          detentions after the Unity
                                          Uprising violates Article 9 of
                                          the ICCPR, which prohibits
                                          arbitrary detention.
                                          Furthermore, that the
                                          conditions of detention and
                                          deliberate medical neglect
                                          amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
                                          amounts to violations of
                                          Article 10 of the ICCPR.</p>
                                        <p style="margin: 10px
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                                          150%;text-align: left;">The
                                          report also outlined how
                                          Israel is violating the
                                          Palestinian people’s freedom
                                          of movement through its
                                          annexation wall, checkpoints,
                                          closure and military blockade,
                                          permit system and travel bans
                                          which amount to violations of
                                          Articles 12 and 13 of the
                                          ICCPR. In addition, the report
                                          illustrated how Israel’s
                                          military judicial system plays
                                          an integral role in sustaining
                                          its apartheid regime. It
                                          further examined how Israel’s
                                          systematic denial of the right
                                          to a fair trial, judicial
                                          process and guarantees
                                          violates Article 14 of the
                                          ICCPR. Furthermore, the report
                                          exposed Israel’s breach of
                                          Palestinians’ freedom of
                                          expression, the right to
                                          peaceful assembly and freedom
                                          of association as entailed in
                                          Articles 19, 21 and 22,
                                          including highlighting
                                          Israel’s unsubstantiated
                                          smearing of Palestinian civil
                                          society organisations as
                                          “terrorist organisations”.
                                          Israel’s racial discrimination
                                          and apartheid regime violates
                                          Article 26 of the ICCPR which
                                          establishes that “[a]ll
                                          persons are equal before the
                                          law and are entitled without
                                          any discrimination to the
                                          equal protection of the law.”</p>
                                        <p style="margin: 10px
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                                          16px;line-height:
                                          150%;text-align: left;">The
                                          report concludes that “[s]ince
                                          the 2014 Concluding
                                          Observations, Israel has
                                          failed to adopt the
                                          Committee’s recommendations
                                          and continues to
                                          violate fundamental rights enshrined in
                                          the ICCPR.” It further noted
                                          that the 2019 Concluding
                                          Observations of the Committee
                                          on the Elimination of Racial
                                          Discrimination (CERD)
                                          recognized the continuity of
                                          Israel’s discriminatory laws,
                                          policies, and practices
                                          targeting Palestinians on both
                                          sides of the Green Line and
                                          urged Israel to “give full
                                          effect to article 3 of the
                                          Convention and eradicate all
                                          forms of segregation between
                                          Jewish and non-Jewish
                                          communities and any such
                                          policies or practices that
                                          severely and
                                          disproportionately affect the
                                          Palestinian population in
                                          Israel proper and in the
                                          Occupied Palestinian
                                          Territory.”</p>
                                        <p style="margin: 10px
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                                          16px;line-height:
                                          150%;text-align: left;">Finally,
                                          building upon the mounting
                                          recognition that Israel
                                          imposes an apartheid regime
                                          over the Palestinian people as
                                          a whole, the organisations
                                          called on the Human Rights
                                          Committee to recognize the
                                          following:</p>
                                        <ul>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The
                                            HRC acknowledges the root
                                            causes of the situation in
                                            Palestine as one of settler
                                            colonisation and apartheid.
                                            Through the strategic
                                            fragmentation and
                                            segregation of the
                                            Palestinian people into
                                            domains, Israel has ensured
                                            that Palestinians cannot
                                            meet, group, live together,
                                            and exercise their
                                            collective rights,
                                            particularly their right to
                                            self-determination in
                                            violation of the ICCPR,
                                            including article 1 of the
                                            ICCPR.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The
                                            continuity of Israeli
                                            discriminatory apartheid
                                            policies, practices and laws
                                            on both sides of the Green
                                            Line impose racial
                                            domination and oppression
                                            targeting the Palestinian
                                            people on both sides of the
                                            Green Line and Palestinian
                                            refugees and exiles, who are
                                            denied the right to return
                                            to their lands, homes and
                                            properties.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Israel
                                            has imposed an
                                            institutionalized regime of
                                            racial domination and
                                            oppression amounting to a
                                            regime of apartheid
                                            targeting the Palestinian
                                            people as a whole in
                                            violation of the ICCPR.</li>
                                        </ul>
                                        <ol>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">We
                                            further recommend that the
                                            Human Rights Committee makes
                                            the following
                                            recommendations to the State
                                            Party:</li>
                                        </ol>
                                        <ul>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Urge
                                            Israel to cease conferring
                                            public functions of the
                                            State to the WZO/JA and JNF,
                                            which are chartered to carry
                                            out material discrimination
                                            against non-Jewish persons
                                            and have historically
                                            prevented the indigenous
                                            Palestinian people on both
                                            sides of the Green Line from
                                            accessing or exercising
                                            control over their means of
                                            subsistence, including their
                                            natural wealth and
                                            resources, by exploiting and
                                            diverting Palestinian
                                            natural resources for the
                                            benefit of Israeli-Jewish
                                            settler, exemplified by the
                                            latest cases of Sheikh
                                            Jarrah and the Naqab.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Demand
                                            that Israel repeals all
                                            legislation enshrining
                                            racial discrimination,
                                            domination, and oppression,
                                            including repealing the
                                            Basic Laws and other
                                            statutes that directly or
                                            indirectly affect the
                                            enjoyment of human rights
                                            through racial and/or
                                            racialized distinctions,
                                            including on the basis of
                                            religion. In particular, we
                                            urge the Committee to call
                                            on Israel to repeal the
                                            following laws, as
                                            foundational to Israel’s
                                            creation of an apartheid
                                            regime, including but not
                                            limited to:
                                            <ol>
                                              <li
                                                style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The
                                                Basic Law: The Law of
                                                Return (1950);</li>
                                              <li
                                                style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The
                                                Citizenship Law (1952);</li>
                                              <li
                                                style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The
                                                Absentee Property Law
                                                (1950);</li>
                                              <li
                                                style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The
                                                Entry into Israel Law
                                                (1952) and its
                                                amendments; and</li>
                                              <li
                                                style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The
                                                Basic Law: Israel as the
                                                Nation-State of the
                                                Jewish People (2018).</li>
                                            </ol>
                                          </li>
                                        </ul>
                                        <ul>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Declare
                                            that the Jewish Nation-State
                                            Law (2018) is antithetical
                                            to the object and purpose of
                                            the Covenant as it has the
                                            purpose of nullifying the
                                            recognition, enjoyment, and
                                            exercise, on an equal
                                            footing, of all human rights
                                            and fundamental freedoms in
                                            the state party and in areas
                                            under its effective control.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Call
                                            on Israel to ensure family
                                            unification of all persons
                                            within its territory or
                                            subject to its effective
                                            control, irrespective of
                                            their ethnicity or national
                                            or other origin.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Call
                                            on Israel to cease all
                                            measures and policies, which
                                            contribute to the
                                            fragmentation of the
                                            Palestinian people,
                                            including the denial of
                                            Palestinian refugee return,
                                            the closure of Jerusalem and
                                            of the Gaza Strip, the
                                            construction of the
                                            Annexation Wall, and the
                                            imposition of severe
                                            movement and access
                                            restrictions, as core
                                            elements in Israel’s
                                            creation of an apartheid
                                            regime over the Palestinian
                                            people on both sides of the
                                            Green Line and further
                                            afield. We also urge the
                                            Committee to demand that
                                            Israel make suitable and
                                            sufficient reparation to all
                                            fragments of the affected
                                            Palestinian people,
                                            including Palestinian
                                            refugees and displaced
                                            persons, as mandated by
                                            international law.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Consider
                                            Israel’s persistent refusal
                                            to grant Palestinian
                                            refugees and displaced
                                            persons their right of
                                            return to their homes and
                                            property in their villages,
                                            towns, and cities of origin,
                                            as a core element in its
                                            creation and maintenance of
                                            its apartheid regime over
                                            the Palestinian people and
                                            reaffirm the right of return
                                            of all Palestinian refugees
                                            and internally displaced
                                            persons to their homes,
                                            property, and land which
                                            they were forced in flee in
                                            1948 and thereafter, and to
                                            call on Israel to comply
                                            with Article 12 of the
                                            ICCPR.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Urge
                                            the reversal of Israel’s
                                            policies and practices with
                                            regards to demographic
                                            manipulation as a
                                            manifestation of the crimes
                                            of population transfer and
                                            apartheid, in violation of
                                            Article 12 of the Covenant,
                                            through the fragmentation of
                                            the Palestinian people as a
                                            whole, the prolonged and
                                            illegal closure of Gaza, the
                                            closure of Jerusalem and the
                                            precarious “permanent
                                            residency” status of
                                            Palestinians in East
                                            Jerusalem, the imposition of
                                            two separate legal systems
                                            in the occupied West Bank,
                                            and the denial of the
                                            internationally recognised
                                            right of return of
                                            Palestinians living as
                                            refugees and in exile.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Demand
                                            Israel cease forthwith the
                                            ongoing closure of Gaza and
                                            lift the blockade with
                                            immediate effect, lift
                                            restrictions on dual-use
                                            items, and recognise that
                                            Israel’s discriminatory
                                            policies and practices,
                                            amounting to the crime of
                                            apartheid, have already made
                                            the Gaza Strip uninhabitable
                                            and violate the full
                                            spectrum of rights owed to
                                            the Palestinian people,
                                            including Palestinian
                                            refugees, in the Gaza Strip
                                            by denying them the
                                            enjoyment on an equal
                                            footing of fundamental
                                            rights and freedoms.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Reaffirm
                                            the findings of the 2004 ICJ
                                            Advisory Opinion on the
                                            illegality of the Annexation
                                            Wall built in the occupied
                                            West Bank, including in and
                                            around East Jerusalem, and
                                            call on Israel to uphold its
                                            obligation to cease
                                            forthwith the works of
                                            construction of the
                                            Annexation Wall, to
                                            dismantle forthwith the
                                            structure therein situated,
                                            and to repeal or render
                                            ineffective forthwith all
                                            legislative and regulatory
                                            acts relating thereto, in
                                            accordance with
                                            international law.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Call
                                            on Israel to reconsider its
                                            entire planning and zoning
                                            policy in consultation with
                                            the indigenous Palestinian
                                            people directly affected by
                                            Israel’s discriminatory
                                            measures, which include
                                            illegal house demolitions
                                            and destruction of property,
                                            denial of access to land and
                                            natural resources, and the
                                            creation of coercive
                                            environments designed to
                                            drive Palestinian transfer.
                                            We further recommend that
                                            the Committee consider
                                            Israel’s discriminatory
                                            planning and zoning regime
                                            as a manifestation of the
                                            crimes of population
                                            transfer and apartheid, in
                                            violation of Article 3 of
                                            the Convention.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Demand
                                            that Israel immediately
                                            ceases any and all practices
                                            of intimidation and
                                            silencing of human rights
                                            defenders, organisations,
                                            and members of civil society
                                            in violation of their right
                                            to freedom of expression,
                                            including through arbitrary
                                            detention, torture and other
                                            ill-treatment,
                                            institutionalised hate
                                            speech and incitement,
                                            residency revocation,
                                            deportations, and other
                                            coercive or punitive
                                            measures. In particular,
                                            that the Israeli Minister of
                                            Defence rescinds the
                                            designations of the six
                                            leading Palestinian human
                                            rights organisations as
                                            “terror organisations” both
                                            under Israeli domestic law
                                            and under military order.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Demand
                                            that Israel immediately
                                            ceases the construction of
                                            all illegal settlements in
                                            the occupied West Bank,
                                            including occupied East
                                            Jerusalem, and dismantle
                                            those already in existence,
                                            in accordance with its
                                            obligations, as occupying
                                            Power, under international
                                            humanitarian law and as
                                            mandated by international
                                            criminal law, in particular
                                            the Rome Statute applicable
                                            in the oPt, and to call for
                                            an end to Israel’s prolonged
                                            occupation of the
                                            Palestinian territory, in
                                            line with Israel’s
                                            obligation to uphold the
                                            right of the Palestinian
                                            people to
                                            self-determination,
                                            including permanent
                                            sovereignty over natural
                                            wealth and resources.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Call
                                            on Israel to release all
                                            political prisoners and to
                                            end its widespread and
                                            systematic use of arbitrary
                                            detention and the use of
                                            torture and other
                                            ill-treatment.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Call
                                            on Israel to end the trial
                                            of Palestinian civilians in
                                            Israeli military courts and
                                            to abolish the Israeli
                                            occupation itself.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Call
                                            on Israel to end its
                                            practice of punitive
                                            residency revocation and to
                                            immediately end the current
                                            process to revoke the
                                            residency of Palestinian
                                            human rights defender Salah
                                            Hammouri.</li>
                                          <li
                                            style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Call
                                            on Israeli and international
                                            corporate entities and
                                            financial institutions to
                                            disengage from all
                                            activities which may render
                                            them complicit, or otherwise
                                            contributing, toward serious
                                            violations of international
                                            human rights and
                                            humanitarian law, or the
                                            commission of international
                                            crimes, including those
                                            operating within illegal
                                            Israeli colonial settlements
                                            in the occupied West Bank,
                                            including East Jerusalem,
                                            and otherwise doing business
                                            with such colonial
                                            settlements.</li>
                                        </ul>
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                                          150%;text-align: left;">Please
                                          find the joint shadow report
                                          to the Human Rights Committee <a
href="https://alhaq.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10071401ba4201bc1a4992f68&id=380c95a408&e=08c14cf485"
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style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
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target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-link-48.png"
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style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
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                                        valign="top"> <em>Copyright ©
                                          2022 Al-Haq Organization, All
                                          rights reserved.</em>
                                        <br>
                                        al haq organizaiton <br>
                                        <br>
                                        <strong>Our mailing address is:</strong>
                                        <br>
                                        <div class="vcard"><span
                                            class="org fn">Al-Haq
                                            Organization</span>
                                          <div class="adr">
                                            <div class="street-address">54
                                              Main Street</div>
                                            <span class="locality">Ramallah</span>
                                            <span class="postal-code">P6008148</span>
                                            <div class="country-name">Palestine</div>
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