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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Rights groups call on AG, army to disregard outpost law
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Israeli legal rights group Yesh Din and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) are calling on authorities to ignore legislation passed yesterday to legalize West Bank settlement outposts, saying that the law is “illegal.”
In a letter sent to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and IDF Chief Military Advocate General Sharon Afek, the NGOs ask them to “instruct the authorities in the West Bank not to carry out the law.”
According to Yesh Din and ACRI, the law contradicts the “Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty” as well as international law, and “could implicate citizens and officers in war crimes at the International Criminal Court.”
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