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High Court of Justice (HCJ)

The HCJ cancelled a part of military order 1500 on detention that was in violation to international human rights law.

The HCJ accepted a petition against a part of the route of the wall in the area around the settlement of Alfei Menashe. In this decision the Court refers atlength to the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the "Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory ICJ," 9 July 2004.

This case concerns the legality of targeted killing.

  • Yoav Hess et al. v. The State Attorney General, HCJ 8794/03, 23 December 2008 (PDF below).

This case dealt with the request of the NGO "Yesh Gvul" to open a criminal investigation following the tartgeted killing of Salah Schadeh.

This case concerns torture and the applicability of the criminal defence of necessity. A contempt of court motion was filed on 2 September 2008 to the High Court of Justice, against the government of Israel and the General Security Service (GSS) for their responsibility for the policy that grants a priori permits to use torture in interrogation that fundamentally violates the High Court of Justice decision of September 1999.

On the settlement policy and the issue of standing before the Court.

On the subject of conditions in detention.
The HCJ decided that the "early warning procedure" of the army and the use of human shields was illegal.
                                                   
The obligation of Israel to supply electricity to Gaza. The Court rules on the status of Gaza as not being occupied since September 2005.
                                                                

The Israeli Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Detention of Unlawful Combatants Law – 2002.

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Thursday, 09 September 2010
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