HaMoked
HaMoked, or Center for the Defense of the Individual, is an organization founded in 1988 to assist Palestinians who come into conflict with Israeli police in the Israeli Occupied Territories . In addition, the organization claims to be working on the further development of standards and the importance of international human rights and humanitarian legislation.
The founder Lotte Salzberger started a hotline for Palestinian victims of violence during the first Intifada . The activities were gradually expanded. The organization contacts authorities, conducts litigation and submits petitions to the Israeli High Court of Justice . She tries to get the legislature to change the law to improve the status of human rights in the occupied areas. HaMoked employs 30 Jewish and Palestinian employees and has handled 55,000 complaints since it was founded. The number of cases has quintupled since 2002 (Operation Defensive Shield) (Annual Report 2004) .
One of HaMoked's employees is Daniel Shenhar, an Israeli human rights lawyer. He represents the rights of Palestinians in administrative detention and deals with allegations of torture . Shenhar says only five percent of appeals against military court judgments are successful. The prisoners are said to have been in prison for an average of two to three years without ever having had a legal process.
HaMoked was one of ten human rights organizations in March 2010 that co-signed a letter to the Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak . The letter called for a delay in the implementation of military decrees designed to prevent infiltration. One of the decrees with the number 1650 is a law change to a military law of 1969, which served to deal with infiltration on the part of the neighboring Arab states. According to the NGO, the Israeli army would be authorized to deport Palestinians from the West Bank or imprison them for up to seven years if they did not have an Israeli permit; these people would be referred to as "infiltrators". According to HaMoked, the military edicts are so broad that the military in the West Bank can deport almost all Palestinian residents.
Web links
- http://www.hamoked.org.il (English, Hebrew)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report on a lecture by the Israeli human rights defender Daniel Shenhar , Amnesty Göttingen. November 11, 2009.
- ^ Israel's West Bank deportation order comes into force amid controversy , Xinhua News Agency. April 14, 2010. Archived from the original on April 19, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 29, 2010.
