01.11.2009|Court Documents|Response to Petition
HCJ 9961/03, 639/04 Response on behalf of HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, the Petitioner in HCJ 9961/03, to the Updating Notices on behalf of the State
HaMoked’s response to the update submitted by the state in the petitions filed by HaMoked and ACRI against the permit regime Israel implemented in the “seam zone”. In its response, HaMoked states that this regime, which discriminates on the basis of nationality between tourists and Israelis who are free to move in the zone and Palestinians who depend on various permits to enter and exit it, constitutes apartheid. Not only is this regime a blatant breach of international humanitarian and human rights law which Israel undertook to respect, but it also comes under the term of the crime of apartheid, considered a crime against humanity in international law.
