by Hannah Blazer | Aug 27, 2024 | Social and Economic Justice
Photo credit: Eyal Warshavsky There are so many ways that Palestinian lives and rights are challenged in Area C, the 60% of the West Bank where nearly all settlements sit and some 100,000 Palestinians live. Over the past month, settler violence in these communities...
by Hannah Cohen | May 19, 2023 | Social and Economic Justice
NIFC flagship project partner the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has petitioned the Court for Administrative Affairs in Tel Aviv-Yafo against the policy of the Bat Yam Mayor and municipality that forbids unhoused people from sleeping in public places....
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 24, 2022 | Social and Economic Justice
The Israel Electric Authority amended its criteria for cutting off electricity to households following a Supreme Court ruling last January that electricity is a constitutional right that is inseparable from dignity, life, and health. The new criteria will protect an...
by Zoe Bernard | Aug 15, 2022 | News, Social and Economic Justice
Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip over the past 15 years has had disastrous effects on the lives and health of its Palestinian residents, NIFC project partner Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) reports. In Gaza, nearly every single aspect of health care...
by Zoe Bernard | May 4, 2022 | News, Social and Economic Justice
Three organizations funded by the NIF global network — Amram Association, the Movement for Freedom of Information, and NIFC project partner Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) — petitioned the Jerusalem District Court demanding that the Ministry of Health...
by Hannah Cohen | Apr 28, 2022 | News, Social and Economic Justice
The Israeli government has allocated more resources to health services in the periphery following pressure from NIFC project partner Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) and the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCF). The Negev and the Galilee are...
