{"id":269808,"date":"2022-01-06T15:16:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=269808"},"modified":"2022-01-06T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:22:38","slug":"ngo-action-news-6-jan-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/ngo-action-news-6-jan-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Action News \u2013 6 January 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:-60px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:34;line-height:1.4;\"><h1 class=\"main-title blue\">Civil Society and the <span class=\"secondline\">Question of Palestine<\/span><\/h1><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-alert alert custom alert-custom fusion-alert-center notice fusion-alert-capitalize awb-alert-native-link-color alert-dismissable awb-alert-close-boxed alert-shadow\" style=\"--awb-background-color:#edf2fc;--awb-accent-color:#a0a0a0;--awb-border-size:1px;--awb-border-top-left-radius:0px;--awb-border-top-right-radius:0px;--awb-border-bottom-left-radius:0px;--awb-border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\" role=\"alert\"><div class=\"fusion-alert-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"alert-icon\"><i class=\" fa fa-exclamation-circle\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-alert-content\">This page may contain links to third-party Web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of the United Nations and the United Nations is not responsible for the content of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. The United Nations provides these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link or reference does not imply endorsement of the linked site by the United Nations. This newsletter is a project of the Division for Palestinian Rights, and is intended to provide information on NGO activities relevant to the question of Palestine . NGOs interested in contributing information on their activities should communicate it by email.The Division reserves the right to make the final selection with regard to material to be included in this newsletter. It cannot take responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/span><\/div><button style=\"color:#a0a0a0;border-color:#a0a0a0;\" type=\"button\" class=\"close toggle-alert\" data-dismiss=\"alert\" aria-label=\"Close\">&times;<\/button><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong><u>Middle East<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 5 January, <a href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/plans-for-3700-units-in-east-jerusalem-will-be-discussed-at-the-local-committee-on-january-5\">Peace Now<\/a> informed that the local committee for planning and construction of the Jerusalem Municipality approved five new plans beyond the Green Line in Jerusalem for 3,557 new housing units. Peace Now also identified that the most harmful plan in this process for the perspective of a two-state solution is the plan known as the \u201clower aqueduct plan\u201d near Givat Hamatos and Har Homa, for the construction of a new neighborhood with 1,465 housing units that would block the potential Palestinian continuum between the Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and Bethlehem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 29 December, <a href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/the-minister-of-defense-is-about-to-establish-a-new-settlement-in-evyatar\">Peace Now<\/a> published an article informing that the Israeli Minister of Defense intends to establish a new settlement in the area of Jabal Sabeih where the Evyatar outpost was established near the village of Beita, south of Nablus. Peace Now considers the establishment of such settlement as a serious deviation from the principles of the political \u201cstatus quo\u201d on which the current Israeli government was established.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 29 December, <a href=\"https:\/\/7amleh.org\/2021\/12\/29\/the-palestinian-digital-rights-coalition-and-the-palestinian-human-rights-organizations-council-warn-against-passing-the-facebook-law-in-the-israeli-knesset-and-its-repercussions-on-palestinian-digital-rights\">7amleh<\/a> informed that the Palestinian Digital Rights Coalition (PDRC) and the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) warned against passing the \u201cFacebook Law\u201d in the Israeli Knesset and its serious repercussions on Palestinian digital rights. Among other measures, this law grants Israeli courts the power to demand the removal of user-generated content on social media content platforms that can be perceived as inflammatory or as harming \u201cthe security of the state\u201d, or the security of people or the security of the public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 27 December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhaq.org\/advocacy\/19384.html\">Al-Haq<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.addameer.org\/news\/4627\">Addameer<\/a> informed that the legal team representing the 6 civil society organizations designated by Israel as \u201cterrorist organizations\u201d sent a letter to the Israeli authorities demanding that they reveal the evidence forming the bases of the designations. The legal team argued in the letter that the designations constitute a blatant political decision aimed at destroying Palestinian civil society, based on arbitrary law and emergency measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 27 December, <a href=\"https:\/\/7amleh.org\/2021\/12\/27\/7amleh-launches-guide-on-digital-security-and-privacy-at-peaceful-protests\">7amleh<\/a>, in partnership with Privacy International, launched an online guide titled \u201cDigital Security and Privacy at Peaceful Protests\u201d on digital surveillance technologies in peaceful protests, informed by a context-specific research study on surveillance in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and Palestinian towns in Israel. This guide offers a resource and reference on surveillance technologies that authorities use for suppression in the context of peaceful protests by Palestinians, including mobile phone hacking, location tracking, social media monitoring, facial recognition technologies, body and hand cameras, drones and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 27 December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adalah.org\/en\/content\/view\/10507\">Adalah<\/a> issued a press release calling the Israeli Ministerial Committee on Legislation to reject the proposal to expand the scope of the applicability of the 2011 &#8220;Admissions Committees Law&#8221;, adding that the proposed bill will deepen racial discrimination against Palestinians in Israel and in the OPT and violate international law. The law permits admissions committees to, in practice, filter out Palestinian applicants and others from marginalized groups. Adalah argued that expanding the law&#8217;s applicability to the West Bank constitutes annexation of occupied territories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On 26 December, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pchrgaza.org\/en\/international-day-of-epidemic-preparedness-gaza-embraces-to-face-omicron-variant-with-frail-health-sector\/\">Palestinian Centre for Human Rights<\/a> (PCHR) issued a press release to mark the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness. The article informed that hospitals in Palestine worked at a capacity exceeding their capacity during the last two years, within harsh circumstances, including lack of sufficient space, beds, or staff to assist all the patients in critical conditions. PCHR stated further that the Israeli practices towards Palestinian territories deepened the crisis of the health sector in combating the Covid-19 pandemic by slowing the entry of medical supplies such as the PCR equipment and kits, ventilators, and x-ray machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>North America<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 5 January, <a href=\"https:\/\/jstreet.org\/press-releases\/j-street-welcomes-indefinite-postponement-of-e-1-settlement-discussion\/#.YdXolWDMI2w\">J Street<\/a> issued a press release welcoming the Israeli government\u2019s indefinite postponement of all formal discussion on proposed new settlement construction in the highly sensitive West Bank area of E-1. J Street stated that construction in E-1 would be particularly destructive as it would directly and deliberately disrupt the territorial contiguity of a future Palestinian state, making it even more difficult for Israelis and Palestinians to ultimately resolve their conflict through a peaceful two-state solution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>United Nations<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 23 December, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/newsroom\/official-statements\/open-letter-unrwa-commissioner-general-palestine-refugees\">United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees<\/a> (UNRWA) published an open letter from the UNRWA Commissioner-General to Palestine refugees. In this open letter, the UNRWA Commissioner-General recalled the main challenges faced by the agency and Palestine refugees in 2021, highlighting the agency\u2019s funding shortages and austerity measures which are impacting the quality of services delivery.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><em>This newsletter informs about recent and upcoming activities of Civil Society Organizations affiliated with the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The Committee and the Division for Palestinian Rights of the UN Secretariat provide the information &#8220;as is&#8221; without warranty of any <\/em>kind,<em> and do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, or reliability of the information contained in the websites linked in the newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1239,1512],"tags":[],"country":[],"committee-meeting":[],"class_list":["post-269808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-ngo-action-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269808"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=269808"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=269808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}