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Posts published in October 2009

The Security Paradigm in the Israeli Supreme Court

In a recent judgment of the Israeli Supreme Court, HCJ 7001/09 Kareem AlKanua v Commander of the Army Forces in Gaza et al. (rendered by Justice Levi on 26 October 2009) the petitioner a Palestinian resident of the Gaza Strip, requested the Court to oblige the state to allow him to enter Israel for the purpose of crossing over to the West Bank in order to receive urgent medical treatment in Ramallah. The petition also included a medical expert’s opinion on the condition from which the petitioner suffers, which concludes that the petitioner is bound to become blind if he…