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July 28, 2022, the Chairperson identified the following Refugee Appeal Division decision as being a
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Decision TC1 05038 – The proper interpretation of the ‘generalized risk’ exception to protection found at subparagraph 97(1)(b)(ii) of the Act, in claims for protection involving allegations of gang-targeting or other acts of criminality.
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Decision TB7-19851 – Nigeria – This Jurisprudential Guide addresses internal flight alternatives in major cities in south and central Nigeria for claimants fleeing non-state actors.
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Decision TB7-01837 – Pakistan – Whether the treatment experienced by Ahmadis in Pakistan amounts to persecution, whether state protection is available and whether there is a viable internal flight alternative.
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Decision MB6-01059/60 – India – Availability of an internal flight alternative in India for claimants from Punjab.
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Decision TB6-11632 – China – Analysis of the efficacy of the Chinese national computer network known as the Golden Shield Project and its impact on whether a person wanted by the authorities can exit China via an airport using a genuine passport.
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List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Source:
United Nations. Geospatial Information Section.
Date of Document:
1 October 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Présentation d'Israël
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
February 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Revised Route of the Security Fence According to the Government Decision of April 30, 2006
Source:
Israel. Ministry of Defence.
Date of Document:
30 April 2006
Accessed Date:
5 November 2012
Title:
Movement and Access in the West Bank– September 2024
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Date of Document:
25 September 2024
Accessed Date:
13 December 2024
Title:
Gaza Strip: Access and Movement– July 2024
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Date of Document:
27 July 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Le régime israélien de sécurité sociale. Systèmes nationaux de sécurité
Source:
France. Centre des liaisons européennes et internationales de sécurité sociale.
Accessed Date:
15 July 2025
Title:
Israel. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
23 July 2025
Accessed Date:
29 July 2025
Title:
Israel Report: Sustainable Governance Indicators 2024
Author:
Ilana Shpaizman et al.
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Common core document forming part of the reports of States parties
Date of Document:
23 July 2021
Accessed Date:
6 December 2021
Title:
Beyond Business as Usual in Israel-Palestine. Middle East Report N°225.
Source:
International Crisis Group; U.S/Middle East Project
Date of Document:
10 August 2021
Accessed Date:
6 December 2021
Title:
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
6 March 2025
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Understanding the Status of Land Rights for Sustainable Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank: Briefing note on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Source:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date of Document:
30 July 2024
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Israel-Lebanon conflict explained in charts and maps
Date of Document:
6 October 2024
Accessed Date:
13 December 2024
Title:
Movement in and out of Gaza: update covering August 2023
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Date of Document:
18 September 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Area C is Everything: Planning for the future of Palestine
Source:
Norwegian Refugee Council
Date of Document:
11 September 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Global threats to freedom of expression arising from the conflict in Gaza: Note by the Secretary-General
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
23 August 2024
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Anatomy of a Genocide: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
1 July 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
The Legality of the Israeli Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem
Source:
United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
'You Feel Like You Are Subhuman': Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
5 December 2024
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Humanitarian Situation Update #310 | West bank
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Date of Document:
31 July 2025
Accessed Date:
7 August 2025
Title:
Gaza: Israelis Attacking Known Aid Worker Locations
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
14 May 2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Humanitarian Violence: Israel's Abuse of Preventative Measures in its 2023-2024 Genocidal Military Campaign in the Occupied Gaza Strip
Source:
Goldsmiths, University of London. Forensic Architecture.
Date of Document:
7 March 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
North Gaza: Between Death and Displacement
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
18 October 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Israel/Lebanon: Hezbollah Attacks Endangered Civilians
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
7 March 2025
Accessed Date:
26 May 2025
Title:
The Human Toll: Indirect Deaths from War in Gaza and the West Bank, October 7, 2023 Forward
Source:
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Brown University.
Date of Document:
7 October 2024
Author:
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
State of the Occupation. Year 57: A Joint Situation Report.
Date of Document:
June 2024
Accessed Date:
13 December 2024
Title:
The Consequences of Settler Violence and Forced Displacement on the Health and Wellbeing of Palestinian Communities in Area C
Source:
Physicians for Human Rights
Date of Document:
March 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Lebanon: Israeli Attacks on Medics Apparent War Crimes
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
30 October 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese: Genocide as colonial erasure
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
1 October 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Humanitarian Situation Update #309 | Gaza Strip
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Date of Document:
30 July 2025
Accessed Date:
7 August 2025
Title:
Israel, West Bank and Gaza. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
22 April 2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The State of the World's Human Rights: April 2025.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
April 2025
Accessed Date:
15 May 2025
Title:
Israel and Palestine. World Report 2025: Events of 2024.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2025
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Israel. Freedom in the World 2024.
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: Israel
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/43/ISR/1
Date of Document:
28 February 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Summary of Stakeholders' submissions on Israel
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/43/ISR/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
27 January 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Israel: Compilation of information
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/43/ISR/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
15 February 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Palestine: Impact of the conflict on people with disabilities in the Gaza Strip
Source:
Assessment Capacities Project
Date of Document:
14 February 2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Israel
Source:
United Nations. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Date of Document:
12 November 2019
Accessed Date:
4 February 2020
Title:
Thematic Report: Indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks during the conflict in Gaza (October – December 2023)
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
19 June 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
One Year of War: The Collapse of Human and Civil Rights Protections in Israel and the West Bank. A Review of Human Rights Violations in Israel and the West Bank Over a Year of War.
Source:
Association for Civil Rights in Israel
Date of Document:
7 October 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Israel's Perpetual “State of Emergency”, Criminalizing Palestinian Civil Society and Political Dissent
Source:
Meezaan Organization for Human Rights
Date of Document:
March 2016
Accessed Date:
24 February 2017
Title:
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories: ‘They were just kids': Evidence of war crimes during Israel's August 2022 Gaza offensive
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
25 October 2022
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Born Without Civil Rights: Israel's Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
November 2019
Author:
Omar Shakir et al.
Editor:
Eric Goldstein et al.
Accessed Date:
2 December 2020
Title:
Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
13 February 2025
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
JCB Off Track: Evading responsibility for human rights violations committed with JCB machines in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
18 November 2021
Accessed Date:
6 December 2021
Title:
Automated Apartheid: How facial recognition fragments, segregates and controls Palestinians in the OPT
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
2 May 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Devices of Palestinian Human Rights Defenders Hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus Spyware
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
8 November 2021
Accessed Date:
14 December 2022
Title:
Implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016): Report of the Secretary-General
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
13 December 2024
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Information received from Israel on follow-up to the concluding observations on its fourth periodic report
Date of Document:
23 March 2022
Accessed Date:
13 December 2022
Title:
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
9 May 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Israel Not Complying with World Court Order in Genocide Case
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
26 February 2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Sixth periodic report submitted by Israel under article 19 of the Convention pursuant to the simplified reporting procedure, due in 2020
Date of Document:
21 December 2021
Accessed Date:
13 December 2022
Title:
Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
12 October 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Arbitrary deprivation of liberty in the occupied Palestinian territory: the Palestinian experience behind and beyond bars: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesc...
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Committee.
Date of Document:
28 August 2023
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
The Judicial Overhaul in the Shadow of the War: Attack on Democracy and Human Rights Continues
Source:
Association for Civil Rights in Israel
Date of Document:
20 December 2023
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
100 Days: Report on the Status of Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel During the War on Gaza
Date of Document:
January 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
11 September 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Detailed findings on attacks carried out on and after 7 October 2023 in Israel: Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
10 June 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Detailed findings on the military operations and attacks carried out in the Occupied Palestinian Territory from 7 October to 31 December 2023: Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
10 June 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
14 June 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
26 August 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
6 March 2008
Accessed Date:
5 November 2012
Title:
Acquisition of Israeli Nationality
Source:
Israel. Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Date of Document:
1 January 2010
Accessed Date:
25 March 2014
Title:
Israel: Amendment Authorizing Revocation of Israeli Nationality Passed
Source:
United States. Library of Congress. Global Legal Monitor.
Date of Document:
23 March 2017
Accessed Date:
13 December 2024
Title:
Entry into Israel Law, 5712-1952
Accessed Date:
26 March 2018
Title:
Entry into Israel Law (Amendment No. 30), 5778-2018
Date of Document:
7 March 2018
Accessed Date:
26 March 2018
Title:
Report on Citizenship Law: Israel
Code:
RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2018/2
Source:
European University Institute. Global Citizenship Observatory.
Date of Document:
June 2018
Author:
Yossi Harpaz; Ben Herzog
Accessed Date:
4 February 2020
Title:
Law of Return, 5710-1950 (amended 1970)
Accessed Date:
16 December 2024
Title:
Nationality Law, 5712-1952 (amended 1980)
Accessed Date:
23 March 2015
Title:
The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Provision) 5763-2003
Accessed Date:
5 November 2012
Title:
COI Query Response. Israel: National legislation regarding acquisition of Israeli citizenship, and of permanent residence status.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
27 May 2021
Accessed Date:
6 December 2021
Title:
Israel and Palestine: Travel documents issued by the Israeli government to residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including procedure and issuing authority; restrictions, including validity period; whether entry can be refused upon ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
27 April 2020
Accessed Date:
2 December 2020
Title:
Legality of Israel's Policy Regarding the Revocation of Residency in East Jerusalem. Legal Expert Opinion.
Source:
Norwegian Refugee Council
Date of Document:
22 June 2016
Accessed Date:
7 March 2018
Title:
Explainer: Israel expands power to strip Palestinians of citizenship and residency
Source:
Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Date of Document:
20 February 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Israel: Legislation Criminalizes Denial of the October 7 Attacks
Source:
United States. Law Library of Congress. Global Legal Monitor.
Date of Document:
27 January 2025
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Certification of Israeli Public Documents
Source:
Israel. Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Date of Document:
6 March 2025
Accessed Date:
15 July 2025
Title:
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. U.S Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
29 July 2025
Title:
What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel
Source:
Council on Foreign Relations
Date of Document:
26 October 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
State of Israel. Election for Knesset of 1 November 2022.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
15 December 2024
Title:
Selected Findings: The Israeli Democracy Index 2024
Source:
Israel Democracy Institute
Author:
Tamar Hermann et al.
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Israel's Anti-liberal Coalition
Source:
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik– German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Date of Document:
January 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
About parliament; Election results. Israel: Parliament.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
Accessed Date:
15 July 2025
Title:
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, former Israeli defence minister
Source:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Date of Document:
22 November 2024
Accessed Date:
14 December 2024
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Domestic violence, including legislation; state protection and support services available to victims (March 2010-January 2013)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
19 February 2013
Accessed Date:
27 March 2013
Title:
Israel's Unlawful Blockade of Gaza Sparks Women's Rights Crisis
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
24 October 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
West Bank: Spike in Israeli Killings of Palestinian Children
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
28 August 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Mission report: Official visit of the Office of the SRSG-SVC to Israel and the Occupied West Bank 29 January – 14 February 2024
Source:
United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Date of Document:
4 March 2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
More women and children killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a single year – Oxfam
Date of Document:
30 September 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Advance of Adoption of List of Issues on Israel
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
20 September 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention pursuant to the simplified reporting procedure. Sixth periodic report of States parties due in 2017. Israel.
Date of Document:
14 July 2017
Accessed Date:
7 March 2018
Title:
Israel: Extrajudicial Sanctions Against Husbands Noncompliant with Rabbinical Divorce Rulings
Source:
United States. Law Library of Congress. Global Legal Monitor.
Date of Document:
May 2017
Accessed Date:
14 December 2024
Title:
Situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
20 October 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Israel. Fighting Domestic Violence: Middle East and North Africa.
Accessed Date:
14 December 2024
Title:
Israel's Measures Intended to Prevent Births within Gaza Strip
Source:
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Date of Document:
9 March 2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Trapped and Scarred: The compounding mental harm inflicted on Palestinian children in Gaza
Source:
Save the Children
Date of Document:
April 2024
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of Israel
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Date of Document:
16 October 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Tel Aviv To Recognize Same-Sex Civil Unions
Date of Document:
23 June 2020
Accessed Date:
2 December 2020
Title:
Joint Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review of Israel 43rd Session of the UPR Working Group
Source:
Ma'avarim-Israeli Transgender Community et al.
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Israel: a two-speed LGBTQIA+ progressivism
Source:
Gender in Geopolitics Institute
Date of Document:
30 October 2022
Author:
Jeanne Chassereau
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Israel, The West Bank and Gaza.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
6 September 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Israel, West Bank and Gaza: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2024.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
24 June 2024
Accessed Date:
14 December 2024
Title:
Damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
22 October 2024
Accessed Date:
15 December 2024
Title:
West Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
17 April 2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Israel's apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Stemming Israeli Settler Violence at Its Root. Middle East Report N°246.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
6 September 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Hamas, Islamic Jihad: Holding Hostages is a War Crime
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
20 October 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Israel, West Bank, and Gaza. Country Reports on Terrorism 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 December 2024
Accessed Date:
15 December 2024
Date of Document:
20 October 2023
Accessed Date:
15 December 2024
Title:
Israel. Global Organized Crime Index 2023.
Source:
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Source:
United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Date of Document:
February 2025
Accessed Date:
15 May 2025
Title:
Israel: Military Draft Law and Enforcement
Source:
United States. Law Library of Congress. Global Legal Research Directorate.
Date of Document:
November 2019
Accessed Date:
2 December 2020
Title:
Sanctions for and consequences of avoiding military service or refusing to bear arms or to follow orders from officers, including in battle zones; possibility for soldiers to sue officers for improper conduct or wrong-minded orders (March 2009–...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
27 February 2013
Accessed Date:
27 March 2013
Title:
Military service, including age of recruitment, length of service, grounds for exemption, and availability of alternative service (March 2009–January 2013)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
13 February 2013
Accessed Date:
27 March 2013
Source:
Israel Policy Forum
Date of Document:
25 June 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Israel: New Discriminatory and Anti-Democratic Legislation
Source:
Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Date of Document:
14 September 2017
Accessed Date:
7 March 2018
Title:
The witness protection program, including the type of protection offered, the requirements and procedures to access the program, and the program's effectiveness
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
29 February 2012
Accessed Date:
5 November 2012
Title:
Legal Memo: FAQs on Main Legal Issues in East Jerusalem
Source:
Norwegian Refugee Council
Date of Document:
February 2017
Accessed Date:
7 March 2018
Title:
Constitutional Crisis – Definitions, Precedents, Implications
Source:
Israel Democracy Institute
Date of Document:
26 September 2024
Author:
Amir Fuchs et al.
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Overview of Legal Research in Israel
Date of Document:
December 2019
Accessed Date:
7 December 2021
Title:
How Does International Humanitarian Law Apply in Israel and Gaza?
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
27 October 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Understanding Israel's Constitutional Nightmare: A Summary of How the National Crisis Began
Source:
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Date of Document:
4 April 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Thematic Report: Detention in the context of the escalation of hostilities in Gaza (October 2023-June 2024)
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
31 July 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Why Does Israel Have So Many Palestinians in Detention and Available to Swap?
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
29 November 2023
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
Requirements and procedures for a victim of crime to file a complaint with the police, including obtaining a copy of the complaint and effectiveness; mechanisms available to file a complaint against the police, including effectiveness (2012–February 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
19 March 2015
Accessed Date:
16 March 2016
Title:
Israeli police targeted Palestinians with discriminatory arrests, torture and unlawful force
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
24 June 2021
Accessed Date:
14 December 2022
Title:
Civilian Armament in Israel
Source:
Association for Civil Rights in Israel
Date of Document:
3 April 2024
Accessed Date:
15 December 2024
Title:
Unwilling and Unable: Israel's Whitewashed Investigations of the Great March of Return Protests
Source:
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Date of Document:
December 2021
Accessed Date:
14 December 2022
Title:
Gaza: Israeli Strike Killing 106 Civilians an Apparent War Crime
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
4 April 2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Israel/OPT: Investigate Possible War Crimes During Israel's Military Offensive on Gaza in May 2023
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
13 June 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
The Independence of the Israel Police and the Limits of Political Intervention in Its Operations
Source:
Israel Democracy Institute
Date of Document:
19 June 2024
Author:
Eran Shamir-Borer; Mirit Lavi
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Shocking spike in use of unlawful lethal force by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
Source:
Amnesty international
Date of Document:
5 February 2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Hamas war
Source:
Committee to Protect Journalists
Date of Document:
18 June 2025
Author:
Mohamed Mandour et al.
Accessed Date:
15 July 2025
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
21 December 2023
Author:
Deborah Brown; Rasha Younes
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Israel-Palestine : Four years of violence against Palestinian journalists covering “March of Return” protests
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of Document:
25 April 2022
Accessed Date:
14 December 2022
Title:
Crackdown on Freedom of Speech of Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Source:
Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Date of Document:
16 November 2023
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Global: Social media companies must step up crisis response on Israel-Palestine as online hate and censorship proliferate
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
27 October 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Israel and Palestine: A year on, the assault on freedom of expression continues
Date of Document:
7 October 2024
Accessed Date:
15 December 2024
Title:
Israel: Stop targeting journalists covering the war
Date of Document:
6 January 2025
Accessed Date:
13 May 2025
Title:
Israel: RSF condemns the attacks on media independence by the government of Benyamin Netanyahu
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of Document:
21 November 2024
Accessed Date:
13 May 2025
Title:
Israel. International Religious Freedom Report for 2023.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
26 June 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Israel's Religiously Divided Society
Source:
Pew Research Center
Date of Document:
8 March 2016
Accessed Date:
19 January 2017
Title:
Attacks on Christians in Israel and East Jerusalem. 2023 Annual Report.
Source:
Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue
Date of Document:
4 June 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Israel. The Freedom of Thought Report.
Source:
Humanists International
Date of Document:
29 October 2020
Accessed Date:
17 December 2024
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Israel: Discriminatory Land Policies Hem in Palestinians
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
12 May 2020
Accessed Date:
2 December 2020
Title:
Israel's Nation-State Law: Netanyahu Government Lays the Foundations for a Majoritarian System
Source:
German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Date of Document:
October 2018
Author:
Peter Lintl; Stefan Wolfrum
Accessed Date:
6 February 2020
Title:
Situation and treatment of people who self-identify as being Jewish but are not recognized as Jewish according to halacha (Jewish religious law), including immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and differences in rights; whether people with...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
2 March 2016
Accessed Date:
11 March 2016
Title:
Report of the ad hoc conciliation commission on the inter-State communication submitted by the State of Palestine against Israel under article 11 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Findings an...
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
21 August 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Report of the ad hoc conciliation commission on the inter-State communication submitted by the State of Palestine against Israel under article 11 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Addendum...
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
21 August 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Non-Jewish Minorities and Their Access to Israeli Citizenship
Source:
German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Date of Document:
September 2016
Accessed Date:
19 January 2017
Title:
Report of the Ad Hoc Conciliation Commission on the inter-State communication submitted by the State of Palestine against Israel under article 11 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Addendum: Assessment of the facts
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
21 August 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Elected but restricted: Shrinking space for Palestinian parliamentarians in Israel's Knesset
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
4 September 2019
Accessed Date:
6 February 2020
Title:
NGO Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Advance of its List of Themes for the State of Israel: Violations of the ICERD committed by the State of Israel against Palestinian citizens of Israel
Source:
Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Date of Document:
12 September 2019
Accessed Date:
21 May 2024
Title:
Joint NGO Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Re: List of Themes for the State of Israel: Violations of the ICERD against the Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel living in the Naqab/Negev desert
Source:
Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCF); Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Date of Document:
12 September 2019
Accessed Date:
21 May 2024
Title:
Israel. World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
Source:
Minority Rights Group International
Date of Document:
May 2020
Accessed Date:
8 December 2020
Title:
Bedouin in the Negev/Naqab. The Indigenous World 2025.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2025
Author:
Chloé Portheault et al.
Editor:
Dwayne Mamo et al.
Accessed Date:
27 May 2025
Title:
Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel's Minorities and the War in Gaza
Source:
Brandeis University. Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
Date of Document:
April 2024
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Gaza: Israel's ‘Open-Air Prison' at 15
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
14 June 2022
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
West Bank: New Entry Rules Further Isolate Palestinians
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
23 January 2023
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Expulsion with no exit: one year of war in Gaza
Source:
Barcelona Center for International Affairs
Date of Document:
October 2024
Author:
Blanca Garcés; Giulia Porfirione
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Israeli military operation displaces 40,000 in the West Bank
Date of Document:
10 February 2025
Accessed Date:
13 May 2025
Title:
“Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged”: Israel's Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
14 November 2024
Accessed Date:
14 May 2025
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
Title:
UN completes investigation on UNRWA staff
Date of Document:
5 August 2024
Accessed Date:
19 May 2025
Title:
Israel's new laws banning UNRWA already taking effect
Source:
United Nations Palestine
Date of Document:
30 January 2025
Accessed Date:
19 May 2025
Title:
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese banned from entering Israel.
Source:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Date of Document:
12 February 2024
Accessed Date:
19 May 2025
Title:
Pro-Israel campaigners protest against UN special rapporteur's UK visit
Date of Document:
11 November 2024
Accessed Date:
27 May 2025
Title:
US issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, UN official investigating abuses in Gaza
Date of Document:
10 July 2025
Accessed Date:
7 August 2025
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 20 December 2024:
Title:
Le régime israélien de sécurité sociale. Systèmes nationaux de sécurité sociale.
Source:
France. Centre des liaisons européennes et internationales de sécurité sociale.
URL:
https://www.cleiss.fr/docs/regimes/regime_israel.html
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Israel. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
11 December 2024
URL:
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/israel/
Accessed Date:
16 December 2024
Title:
Israel Report: Sustainable Governance Indicators 2022
Author:
Alex Altshuler et al.
URL:
https://www.sgi-network.org/docs/2022/country/SGI2022_Israel.pdf
Accessed Date:
13 December 2022
Title:
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Occupied Syrian Golan: Report of the Secretary-General
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
12 September 2024
URL:
http://undocs.org/en/A/79/347
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Manufacturing Famine: Israel is Committing the War Crime of Starvation in the Gaza Strip
Source:
B'Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Date of Document:
22 April 2024
URL:
https://www.btselem.org/publications/202404_manufacturing_famine
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The State of the World's Human Rights: April 2024.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
23 April 2024
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/POL1072002024ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Israel and Palestine. World Report 2024: Events of 2023.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/israel-and-palestine
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
4 March 2024
URL:
https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/55/28
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Certification of Israeli Public Documents
Source:
Israel. Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Date of Document:
21 October 2020
URL:
https://www.gov.il/en/departments/general/document_verification
Accessed Date:
13 December 2022
Title:
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. U.S Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
URL:
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Israel.html
Accessed Date:
16 December 2024
Title:
The Israeli Democracy Index 2023
Source:
Israel Democracy Institute
Author:
Tamar Hermann et al.
URL:
https://en.idi.org.il/media/24389/the-israeli-democracy-index-2023-english.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Foreign Terrorism Organizations: Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Source:
United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Date of Document:
February 2023
URL:
https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/pij_fto.html
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Hamas war
Source:
Committee to Protect Journalists
Date of Document:
8 May 2024
URL:
https://cpj.org/2023/10/attacks-arrests-threats-censorship-the-high-risks-of-reporting-the-israel-hamas-war/
Accessed Date:
21 May 2024
Title:
Bedouin in the Negev/Naqab. The Indigenous World 2024.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2024
URL:
https://www.iwgia.org/en/bedouin_negev_naqab/5368-iw-2024-bedouin.html
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Land Registry Regulation in the Occupied Territories
Source:
Association for Civil Rights in Israel
Date of Document:
February 2021
URL:
https://01368b10-57e4-4138-acc3-01373134d221.usrfiles.com/ugd/01368b_2753182fae004086bef343a0636f7afc.pdf
Accessed Date:
6 December 2021
Title:
Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel | Flash Update #165
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Date of Document:
13 May 2024
URL:
https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-165
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Two Months After the International Court of Justice's Ruling on Gaza: Escalation in Genocide and Absence of Accountability
Source:
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Date of Document:
March 2024
URL:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OVzxJG6AkBpvapP8R9ev4nCasY2QQJsh/view
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
The Silent Overhaul: Changing the nature of Israeli Control in the West Bank, Analysis of Israel's 37th government's annexation policy and its ramifications
Source:
Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights et al.
Date of Document:
22 September 2024
URL:
https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.yesh-din.org/Hafiha_24/Hafiha_ENG.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Source:
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Date of Document:
26 June 2023
URL:
https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Annual-Report-2022-English.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Israel/OPT: Israel must repeal the discriminatory Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
19 February 2017
URL:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/MDE1557372017ENGLISH.pdf
Accessed Date:
7 March 2018
Title:
Injustice: Palestinian children's experience of the Israeli military detention system
Source:
Save the Children
Date of Document:
July 2023
Author:
Emily May; Claire Nicoll
URL:
https://dylbw5db8047o.cloudfront.net/uploads/INJUSTICE-Palestinian-childrens-experience-of-the-Israeli-military-detention-system-SC-July-2023.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
18 October 2023
URL:
https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/east-mediterranean-mena/israelpalestine/ceasefire-gaza
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Annual Violations Report 2022
Source:
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Date of Document:
27 August 2023
URL:
https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/publications/damir%20e%20for%20social.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Denial of Palestinian Use and Access to Land: Summary of Israeli Law and Policies
Source:
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Date of Document:
February 2022
URL:
https://www.badil.org/cached_uploads/view/2022/03/16/summary-denialof-use-access2land-eng-1647430431.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Prison is a Still Point in a Turning World
Source:
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Date of Document:
1 October 2023
URL:
https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/publications/Prison%20is%20a%20Still%20Point.pdf
Accessed Date:
12 December 2023
Title:
Escalating Oppression Israel's Systematic Violations Intensity in Palestine Post-October 7, 2023
Source:
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Date of Document:
23 January 2024
URL:
https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/publications/Full%20Report%20on%20the%20situation%20after%20October%207th.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
The Legal Status of the Israeli Occupation
Source:
Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights
Date of Document:
June 2023
Author:
Michael Sfard; Keren Michaeli
URL:
https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.yesh-din.org/The+Legal+Status+of+the+Israeli+Occupation+2023/Legal+Status_ENG.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Law Enforcement on Israeli Civilians in the West Bank (Settler Violence)
Source:
Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights
Date of Document:
December 2023
URL:
https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.yesh-din.org/data+sheet+2023/YeshDin+-+Netunim+2023+-+ENG_04.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Lethal Weapon .22: Deadly use of Ruger-Type weapons against Palestinians in the West Bank
Source:
Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights
Date of Document:
October 2023
URL:
https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.yesh-din.org/Lethal+Weapon+/YeshDin+-+Lethal+Weapon+-+Eng.pdf
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
Source:
Committee to Protect Journalists
Date of Document:
25 November 2024
URL:
https://cpj.org/2024/11/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
About 4,000 Palestinians displaced in the West Bank in 2023
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Date of Document:
21 February 2024
URL:
https://www.ochaopt.org/content/about-4000-palestinians-displaced-west-bank-2023
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Forced Displacement and Transfer as an Act of Genocide in the Gaza Strip
Source:
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Date of Document:
May 2024
URL:
https://www.badil.org/cached_uploads/view/2024/06/10/forced-displacement-as-an-act-of-genocide-in-the-gaza-strip-v6-1718021197.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Israel. Freedom in the World 2024.
URL:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/israel/freedom-world/2024
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
One Year of War: The Collapse of Human and Civil Rights Protections in Israel and the West Bank. A Review of Human Rights Violations in Israel and the West Bank Over a Year of War.
Source:
Association for Civil Rights in Israel
Date of Document:
7 October 2024
URL:
https://www.english.acri.org.il/post/one-year-of-war-the-collapse-of-human-and-civil-rights-protections-in-israel-and-the-west-bank
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
West Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
17 April 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/17/west-bank-israel-responsible-rising-settler-violence
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
Constitutional Crisis – Definitions, Precedents, Implications
Source:
Israel Democracy Institute
Date of Document:
26 September 2024
Author:
Amir Fuchs et al.
URL:
https://en.idi.org.il/articles/56074
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Thematic Report: Detention in the context of the escalation of hostilities in Gaza (October 2023-June 2024)
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
31 July 2024
URL:
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/opt/20240731-Thematic-report-Detention-context-Gaza-hostilities.pdf
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Why Does Israel Have So Many Palestinians in Detention and Available to Swap?
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
29 November 2023
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/29/why-does-israel-have-so-many-palestinians-detention-and-available-swap
Accessed Date:
15 May 2024
Title:
The Independence of the Israel Police and the Limits of Political Intervention in Its Operations
Source:
Israel Democracy Institute
Date of Document:
19 June 2024
Author:
Eran Shamir-Borer; Mirit Lavi
URL:
https://en.idi.org.il/articles/54565
Accessed Date:
3 December 2024
Title:
Understanding the Status of Land Rights for Sustainable Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank: Briefing note on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Source:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date of Document:
30 July 2024
URL:
https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cd1805en.pdf
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Global threats to freedom of expression arising from the conflict in Gaza: Note by the Secretary-General
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
23 August 2024
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/A/79/319
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
'You Feel Like You Are Subhuman': Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
5 December 2024
URL:
https://amnesty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Amnesty-International-Gaza-Genocide-Report-December-4-2024.pdf
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Israel/Lebanon: Hezbollah Attacks Endangered Civilians
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
7 March 2025
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/07/israel/lebanon-hezbollah-attacks-endangered-civilians
Accessed Date:
26 May 2025
Title:
Humanitarian Situation Update #309 | Gaza Strip
Source:
United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Date of Document:
30 July 2025
URL:
https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-update-309-gaza-strip
Accessed Date:
7 August 2025
Title:
Implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016): Report of the Secretary-General
Source:
United Nations. Security Council.
Date of Document:
13 December 2024
URL:
https://docs.un.org/en/S/2024/913
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Israel: Legislation Criminalizes Denial of the October 7 Attacks
Source:
United States. Law Library of Congress. Global Legal Monitor.
Date of Document:
27 January 2025
URL:
https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2025-01-27/israel-legislation-criminalizes-denial-of-the-october-7-attacks/
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Trapped and Scarred: The compounding mental harm inflicted on Palestinian children in Gaza
Source:
Save the Children
Date of Document:
April 2024
URL:
https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/Trapped-and-Scarred-Final-1-1.pdf/
Accessed Date:
7 May 2025
Title:
Israel: Stop targeting journalists covering the war
Date of Document:
6 January 2025
URL:
https://www.article19.org/resources/israel-and-palestine-stop-targeting-journalists-covering-war/
Accessed Date:
13 May 2025
Title:
Israel: RSF condemns the attacks on media independence by the government of Benyamin Netanyahu
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of Document:
21 November 2024
URL:
https://rsf.org/en/israel-rsf-condemns-attacks-media-independence-government-benyamin-netanyahu
Accessed Date:
13 May 2025
Title:
Israeli military operation displaces 40,000 in the West Bank
Date of Document:
10 February 2025
URL:
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1159971
Accessed Date:
13 May 2025
Title:
“Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged”: Israel's Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
14 November 2024
URL:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2024/11/14/hopeless-starving-and-besieged/israels-forced-displacement-palestinians-gaza
Accessed Date:
14 May 2025
Title:
UN completes investigation on UNRWA staff
Date of Document:
5 August 2024
URL:
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152841
Accessed Date:
19 May 2025
Title:
Israel's new laws banning UNRWA already taking effect
Source:
United Nations Palestine
Date of Document:
30 January 2025
URL:
https://palestine.un.org/en/288442-israel%E2%80%99s-new-laws-banning-unrwa-already-taking-effect
Accessed Date:
19 May 2025
Title:
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese banned from entering Israel.
Source:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Date of Document:
12 February 2024
URL:
https://www.gov.il/en/pages/francesca-albenza
Accessed Date:
19 May 2025
Title:
Pro-Israel campaigners protest against UN special rapporteur's UK visit
Date of Document:
11 November 2024
URL:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/11/pro-israel-campaigners-protest-against-un-special-rapporteurs-uk-visit
Accessed Date:
27 May 2025
Title:
US issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, UN official investigating abuses in Gaza
Date of Document:
10 July 2025
URL:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/israel-gaza-war-un-sanctions
Accessed Date:
7 August 2025
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IRB members (decision-makers) after considering the evidence and arguments presented by the parties.
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NDP. It cannot guarantee or be responsible for:
- the functionality of links to external sources,
- the content accessed by these links,
- the availability of external content in both English and French,
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The information presented in
NDPs solely reflects the views and perspectives of the sources cited and does not necessarily reflect the position of the
IRB or the Government of Canada.