Mr. Hasan Sharaka, Head of the internal control and complaints unit in the Palestinian Land and Water Settlement Commission, Subject: The Violations and Shortcomings affect the desired result of the land settlement and infringe on the citizens’ rights This must be addressed immediately without delay. MUSAWA-The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession, extends its best greetings and expresses that the violations and short...

Lawyers, jurists, and those concerned with the public interest have circulated the news of the instructions issued by the chief justice, upon a decision by the High judicial council on 15/02/2023. This constitutes a circumvention of the president’s decision to abolish the decree-law amending the law of civil and commercial procedures, and works to establish hegemony, monopoly of power and the overstepping of jurisdiction, which violates the recognized values and constitutional principles. Moreover, a legislation is amended by a non-legislative instrument, as it amends a law, such as the law of civil and commerci...

MUSAWA learned from well-informed and trusted sources that the government and the chief justice continue to pressure the Bar association to accept the implementation of the Decree-laws amending the Penal code, the law of the civil procedures, and the law of execution that were all annulled, in addition to the law of court fees. In return, they will implement the pre-amendment regulation regarding notarized documents in hopes of ending the lawyers' strike and subjugating them to their will. This is in spite of the government and the chief justice’s awareness that this acceptance and acquies...