MUSAWA, the Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession, expresses shock, denunciation, and condemnation over the killing of Abdul Qader Zaqdah today in Tulkarm camp. This occurrred during clashes between security personnel and citizens protesting the removal of barricades put up by the citizens to prevent Israeli occupation forces from storming the camp. MUSAWA emphasizes that the use of force has had and continues to have devastating repercussions, claiming citizens' lives and hastening the descent into an abyss of chaos that undermines individual and group security while also threatening ...

In violation of the Basic Law, the Public Meetings Law, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Palestinian security forces disperse a peaceful gathering in front of the cabinet. This assembly was called by the founding body of the state employees union, which followed the applicable laws and notified the appropriate official bodies of the meeting's time, location, purpose, and peaceful nature. We demand an investigation to ensure that all those responsible for dispersing this assembly and preventing journalists from covering it, as they deemed it illegal, are held accounta...

MUSAWA obtained a copy (attached above) of a presidential decree issued on August 16, 2019, amending the formation of the High Coordinating Council of the Justice Sector, which was formed pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 7 of 2019 issued on July 31, 2019. This new amended decree added the following members to the Council: Chief justice of "Sharia Judiciary", president of the Supreme Administrative Court "Administrative Judiciary", and chief of the Security Forces Judiciary “Military Justice”. This new decree came shortly after the issuance of presidential decree No...