Breaking news from @AdalahEnglish tonight:
"Israeli Supreme Court fully adopts Israeli army’s position, gives green light to continued use of live fire, snipers against Gaza protesters Supreme Court refused to watch videos documenting shooting..against Gaza demonstrators"
"Israeli Supreme Court fully adopts Israeli army’s position, gives green light to continued use of live fire, snipers against Gaza protesters Supreme Court refused to watch videos documenting shooting..against Gaza demonstrators"
"The Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday night, 24 May 2018, rejected two petitions filed by human rights groups...
Three Supreme Court justices unanimously rejected the two petitions...and fully accepting the military’s claims"
Three Supreme Court justices unanimously rejected the two petitions...and fully accepting the military’s claims"
One petition was filed by Adalah (The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel) + Al Mezan Center for Human Rights;
another by Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Yesh Din, Gisha (Legal Center for Freedom of Movement) + HaMoked For the Defense of the Individual
another by Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Yesh Din, Gisha (Legal Center for Freedom of Movement) + HaMoked For the Defense of the Individual
"The court ruled that the Israeli military’s firing of live ammunition at protesters was in accordance with the law because, according to the court, the protest participants constituted a real danger to Israeli soldiers and citizens".
Adalah + Al-Mezan stressed that "the Israeli military employed social media channels in advance of the protests to explicitly threaten Gaza residents it'd "fire live ammunition w/ a premeditated intent to kill or wound participants in an effort to deter future political protest."
"The two organizations stressed in the petition that, contrary to the claims of the Israeli military + government, the Gaza protesters are unarmed demonstrators who never reached the point – at any stage – of imminently endangering anyone's life during demonstrations"...
"The petition emphasizes the absolute ban on opening fire on demonstrators with live ammunition ..'These universal norms apply equally + without discrimination to citizens+non-citizens..]regardless of the content of the protest, their slogans, location, organizational affiliation
"..and the ethnic and national affiliation of the participants" - information from
Adalah in Haifa via email from Mati Milstein / ماتي ميلستين / מתי מילשטיין
(International Media Coordinator)
Adalah in Haifa via email from Mati Milstein / ماتي ميلستين / מתי מילשטיין
(International Media Coordinator)
