Systematic Abuse by Administrative Means: A Matter of Policy?
A Report on the Operational Practices of the Civil Administration in Occupied Palestinian Territories
Tsilli Goldenberg
MachsomWatch, Jerusalem
This report is based on observations made at the Etzion District Coordination Office (hence DCO) on follow-up of applications for permits to participate in the Ramadan holiday prayers, and on observations at checkpoints:
9.11.03 (Sunday) DCO and Etzion Checkpoint Maya Bluhm, Mikhal Zupan, Tamar Goldschmidt, Tsilli Goldenberg
21.11.03 (Friday) Bethlehem Checkpoint Yehudit Elkana, Chaya Ofek, Tsili Goldenberg
21.11.03 (Friday) Wadi Nar Checkpoint Mikhal Zupan, Rita Mendes-Flohr
21.11.03 (Friday) Qalandiya Checkpoint Barbara Schmutzler
23.11.03 (Sunday) Etzion DCO Maya Bluhm, Tamar Goldschmidt, Tsilli Goldenberg
20.11.03 (Thursday) IDF Spokesman Announcement:
“The IDF and the Civil Administration Grant Permission for Palestinian Civilians to Attend Prayers at the Temple Mount”
Appendices: Our letters to the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, November 12, 2003
PERMITS TO PRAY ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT
This report was written in response to a new Ministry of Defense decree in honor of the Ramadan holiday which ended on November 24. In the past, adult Palestinian heads of households from the occupied territories were permitted to enter Jerusalem to pray on the four Fridays of Ramadan, provided they passed through the checkpoints. The new regulation (published by the IDF Spokesperson on 20.11.03) made the right to pray conditional on the presentation of a special permit to enter Jerusalem…
Government policies such as closure, encirclement, checkpoints, roadblocks and “security” fences force every single resident of the West Bank into dependency on permits from the local DCO…
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- BARBARA SCHMUTZLER
- TSILLI GOLDENBERG
- YEHUDIT ELKANA
- TAMAR GOLDSCHMIDT
- RITA MENDES-FLOHR