Research

Until the year 1948, the Palestinians who were to become citizens in the State of Israel following its establishment were an integral part of the fabric of Palestinian society, and of resistance to the colonialist project of the Zionist movement, which strove to create an exclusive Jewish state in Palestine.

Israel’s water policies violates basic human rights of Palestinian residents in the Occupied Territories, including the right to health, the right to adequate housing, the right to equality, and the right to benefit from their natural resources. This report details this situation as it relates to one of the worst affected areas: the Jordan Valley. Water scarcity, abysmal sanitation facilities and polluted water resources present a constant challenge to the survival of this already vulnerable community.

This study comes within the framework of the NGO Development Center’s (NDC) efforts to develop the NGO sector to become more responsive, transparent and accountable to Palestinian communities. This is to be accomplished by setting standards and promoting collaboration within the NGO sector. It will be supported by strategic policy research, planning, and a strategic plan.

In emerging economies, Micro Small and Medium sized Enterprises(MSMEs) contribute greatly to growth and development. Compared to larger commercial enterprises, MSMEs have a number of unique attributes. MSMEs are smaller and consequently more flexible. This makes MSMEs able to adapt their operations to market changes and to respond to new demands with greater ease and innovation.

Since the start of the Oslo process, new master plans for the development of the Palestinian water sector have appeared on a regular basis. However, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the siege of the Gaza Strip have prevented the vast majority of the recommendations contained within these master plans from being implemented.

Palestinian youth have played a pioneering role in shouldering the burdens of the Palestinian national struggle making them a key factor in maintaining national identity and the emergence of the Palestinian national movement and its political forces. As a result, young people have been the most exposed to political and military violence, with many being killed, injured, detained, tortured and deported.

This exercise was a mapping of all organizations dealing with youth. Some of them are involved only in youth related activities while others are involved in some projects related to youth.
Over 540 organizations were approached: about 300 were from the West Bank and the rest were from the Gaza Strip, as noted in figure 1, below. Due to the problems of getting the filled questionnaires from the Gaza Strip, the team in Gaza was requested to retype all the answers so that they can send the material electronically for data coding and data entry in Ramallah.

Since June 2002, Israel has been constructing what Professor John Dugard, former UN Special Rapporteur Special apporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, has termed “the Annexation Wall.” From the outset, the Wall building exercise has faced international condemnation on the basis of its illegality under international law. Approximately 87 percent of the Wall will be built on occupied territory.

This short study seeks to tackle broadly the issues and concerns facing all those charged with legally protecting the rights of Palestinians. First, it outlines both the legal landscape of the OPT in which the HCJ operates and the international legal standards applicable to the OPT. It then surveys the nature and effect of some of the Court’s jurisprudence throughout the period of the occupation under a series of headings, before focusing specifically on some important decisions that have been handed down since Al-Haq’s last study of the Court was published in 2004.