Press Releases

For Immediate Release

The ICJ ruling on Israel’s “security” wall is the highlight of al-Majdal issue No. 23 coming out in November 2004. 

Three articles on the ICJ ruling look at the wall and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, the hidden reality of Palestinians living in the path of the wall and how the ruling provides a framework for a comprehensive, just and durable peace.

The new issue of al-Majdal reports on:  legal rights of refugee children and how these rights are abused in reality; the extension of the Israeli law banning family reunifications, the UN Special Rapporteur’s call for legal action against destruction of Palestinian property and how Palestinians are fighting back against Canada’s deportation of refugee claimants.

Al Majdal provides a wrap up report on the fourth BADIL Expert Seminar on ways forward for resolving the refugee issue; NGOs calling for governments and the UN to tackle the lack of protection for Palestinian refugees and the need for a European lobby on the Palestinian issue.

A photo story shows the destroyed village of Lifta near Jerusalem and how an Israeli organization is fighting to stop the development of houses and stores on the site of a Palestinian village captured and destroyed in the 1948 war.

Al-Majdal also looks at lack of donor funding for UNRWA, hears from the survivors of Sabra and Shatila and lists upcoming events and activities relating to Palestinian refugees.

Copies of Al-Majdal issue No. 23 will be mailed to subscribers shortly and a PDF version will be on: www.badil.org/Majdal/2004/majdal23.htm.  Annual subscriptions for four issues are available from [email protected] for $20.