Al-Marsad’s Position Paper on the Nakba and Naksa Day Protests
Al Marsad condemns the illegal, disproportionate and unjustified actions of members of the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) against peacefully protesting civilians at the United Nations Monitored Ceasefire Line during May and June 2011.
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Israeli Agricultural Settlement Expansion in the Occupied Syrian Golan During the Syrian Conflict
In January 2014, the Israeli cabinet approved a proposal to develop 30,000 dunams (7,400 acres) of land in the Occupied Syrian Golan for agricultural use.
Oil and natural gas in the Occupied Syrian Golan, illegal exploitation by Israel as occupying power
According to the Law of Occupation, Israel being the occupying country, has the legal obligation to act as just administrator of public property and natural resources. Nevertheless, at the beginning of 2013 Israel's Energy and Water Resources Ministry granted Genie Energy, an American-Israeli company, an exclusive licence to explore for oil and gas in a 153-square miles radius in the southern part of the Golan.
NEW PUBLICATION: EU’s guidelines on labelling of settlements products, situation in the EU and in some States Parties
Since the occupation began, the Israeli authorities have aimed to implement policies which control the valuable resources in the region, in particular the land and the water.
From Peaceful Demonstrations to Armed Conflict: Considering Humanitarian Intervention in the Case of Syria
The current conflict in Syria has developed from an excessively violent suppression of civilian protestors by Syrian State forces into an allout Civil War. Beginning in March 2011, the conflict has troubled the conscience of the international community.
Syrian Situation and the International Criminal Court, responsibility to referral and to investigate
Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011 the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by both the government and pro-government forces and the anti-government military groups has continued to escalate, leading to the worst humanitarian crisis since the Rwandan genocide.