Suchergebnisse

In the justice system -- based on military courts & tribunals -- of the Israeli-occupied West Bank & Gaza Strip, there is no court of appeal & suspects are regularly convicted on the basis of uncorroborated confessions written in Hebrew, a language with which few Palestinians are familiar. The role of the military courts during the intifada, the popular revolt which began in Dec 1987, is explored with attention to efforts by defense lawyers, through a boycott of the courts, to highlight the erosion of prisoners' rights since the beginning of the intifada. The lawyers now boycotting the courts describe the judicial system as designed to pressure individuals to confess & plead guilty, not to achieve justice. F. S. J. Ledgister

In the conflict between Israel and the Arab states, the ICRC considers that the conditions for the application of the Fourth Convention, which prohibits an occupying power from settling its civilians in the occupied territory, destroying the homes of the people living there or expelling them from it, are fulfilled in all of the occupied territories (the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Golan and East Jerusalem). The principles that the rights of persons who are in occupied territory are inviolable is expressed in Article 47 of the Fourth Convention.