{"id":5045,"date":"2012-09-28T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T09:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2012-10-10T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:22:26","slug":"letter-to-fact-finding-mission-on-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2012\/09\/28\/letter-to-fact-finding-mission-on-settlements\/","title":{"rendered":"ACRI Letter to International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (27 September 2012), ACRI sent a letter to the Secretariat of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in response to the Mission&#8217;s call for submissions.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nACRI has been dealing with the issues mandated to the Fact-Finding Mission for many years and has voiced its professional stance on them on numerous occasions, both in legal submissions and in various publications. In the letter, <strong>Attorney Tamar Feldman, Director of the Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Department<\/strong>, refers the Fact-Finding Mission to <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2012\/04\/22\/attempting-to-distinguish-settlements-from-outposts-creates-a-false-distinction\/\">ACRI&#8217;s recent position paper about Israeli settlements<\/a>, which was submitted in April 2012 to the Israeli Committee to Examine the State of Construction in Judea and Samaria (known as the Levy Committee).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nACRI&#8217;s position paper, which was published in April 2012, found that both \u201cauthorized\u201d settlements and \u201cunauthorized\u201d outposts are illegal under International Humanitarian Law and inflict severe harm upon a range of human rights of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>To read ACRI&#8217;s letter to the International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the OPT (September 2012), <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Letter-to-the-HRC-Fact-Finding-Mission-on-Settlements-Sep-27-2012.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To read ACRI&#8217;s position paper, submitted to the Israeli Committee to Examine the State of Construction in Judea and Samaria (April 2012), <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ACRI-position-outposts-190412-ENG.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (27 September 2012), ACRI sent a letter to the Secretariat of the International Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2012\/09\/28\/letter-to-fact-finding-mission-on-settlements\/\">Read more<span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,71,17,5,51,68],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-5045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freedom-of-movement","category-impact-of-settlements","category-international-humanitarian-law","category-the-occupied-territories","category-the-right-to-property","category-water","tag-publications"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}