Adalah, Al-Haq, and the Civic Coalition for Defending the Palestinians’ Rights in Jerusalem press conference Thursday June 17, 2010

16 June 2010

Dear Sir/Madam:

Adalah, Al-Haq, and the Civic Coalition for Defending the Palestinians’ Rights in Jerusalem would like to invite you to a Press Conference on Thursday 17 June 2010 at 2:00 pm in Watan Studios. 

The Press Conference will address urgent developments which are not only violating Palestinian human rights but severely threatening our ability to continue to campaign to end such violations. 

Of immediate concern is the situation whereby following their release from Israeli prisons, the ID cards of four Jerusalemite PLC members, Mohammed Imran Totah, Ahmad Mohammad Attoun, Khaled Abu Araffah, & Mohammed Abu Teir, were revoked. Having denied these Parliamentarians their residency rights in Jerusalem, Israel has ordered their forced transfer from Jerusalem no later than early July 2010.

This action takes place in the context of the entry into force in the West Bank of Military Orders 1649 & 1650 which effectively legislates for the forcible transfer, deportation, and imprisonment of any Palestinian from the West Bank, a legislative act that consolidates Israel’s annexationist policy of cutting Jerusalem off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory.

Of further concern is the targeting of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Palestinian political and social activists that are citizens of Israel are increasingly being subjected to far-reaching violations of their basic human rights by means of detention, censorship, denial of fair trial rights, travel bans, as well as criminal prosecutions for treason and related crimes aimed at revoking their citizenship.

Sincerely,

Adalah, Al-Haq, Civic Coalition for Defending the Palestinians’ Rights in Jerusalem