At a time when international law has become interpreted by reliance on the policy of powerful States, the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories was and still is the longest occupation in history. Making some convinced and believed that public international law has become impractical, hopeless and pointless at such times. One of these dangerous interpretations is justifying the existence of the Israeli occupation for a long period of time as a “prolonged occupation”, while the temporariness of an occupation is one of the criteria of what makes it legal. Continue reading Prolonged Occupation under International Humanitarian Law (2020)

Health organizations have extensively documented the significant challenges that confront the health of Palestinian women, and have concluded that breast cancer, the most treatable form of cancer, accounts for the highest number of cancer-related deaths among Palestinian women. This is why the issue has recently risen up international and local agendas, producing extensive discussion of the prevention, treatment and control of this cancer. Continue reading Navigating Through the Legal Matrix: The Right of Palestinian Women to Prevent, Treat and Control Breast Cancer (2020)