• Dr. Omar Said, another Palestinian citizen of Israel and a high-profile academic and social and political activist from Kufr Kina village in northern 1948 territory, was arrested while on his way to Jordan on 24 April 2010. Following his arrest, Dr. Said was transferred to Petah Tikva interrogation center, where he remains at present. According to reports, Israeli police accompanied by ISA agents also searched Dr. Said’s home.
• Mahmoud Mihareb, also a Palestinian citizen of Israel and a university lecturer who was accompanying . Omar Saidwhen the latter was arrested on 24 April 2010, was given a travel ban of unknown duration beginning from that date.
• Palestinian cartographer and human rights defender Khalil Tafakjiwas issued with a six-month travel ban on 4 February 2010. Mr. Tafaki, a resident of East Jerusalem, hasaccompanied numerous Palestinian delegations to peace talks between 1992 and 2001, and has traveled extensively to lecture on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT).
• Al-Haq Director Shawan Jabarinwas issued with a travel ban on 23 March 2006, following his appointment as head of Al-Haq. Mr. Jabarin’s ban remains in place at present despite three separate appeals to the Israeli High Court.

• On 12 January 2010, Israeli authorities deported International Solidarity Movement (ISM) media coordinator and Czech national Eva Novakova after a reported 20 Israeli soldiers accompanied by immigration officers from the “Oz” unit raided her apartment in Ramallah and arrested her the previous day.
• On 20 January 2010, Jared Malsin, chief English-language editor of Ma’an News Agency, who had been held in detention at a cell in Ben-Gurion airport for eight days pending a legal challenge against his expulsion, was also deported.
• In the early morning hours of 7 February 2010, Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) raided the Ramallah apartment of ISM activists Ariadna Jove Marti, a Spanish journalist, and Bridgette Chappell, an Australian student at Birzeit University. Both were taken to Ofer Military Base near Ramallah before being handed over to the “Oz” unit police. The Israeli High Court ordered both to be released on bail on 8 February 2010, after levying them with $800 bond fees each and banning them from entering the West Bank.
• The same week, IOF soldiers raided ISM’s Ramallah offices twice, on Sunday 7 February, and Wednesday 10 February at 3 a.m., confiscating computers, t-shirts and bracelets bearing “Palestine” engravings.
• Late into the night of 7 February 2010, the IOF also raided the Ramallah offices of Palestinian NGO Stop the Wall, confiscating computer hard disks, laptops, and video cameras along with paper documents, CDs, and video cassettes.
• On 4 April 2010, the office of Michigan Peace Team in the village of Huwwara near Nablus was raided by the IOF.
• On 13 April 2010, Israeli Military Order 1650 came into effect, broadening the definition of who could be considered an “infiltrator” under the military orders governing the OPT.(1) The wording of the order, which for the first time established a requirement for everyone present in the OPT to have an Israeli-issued permit to be there, places a new threat on all individuals present in the West Bank including international NGO workers who likely remain at particular risk for arrest and deportation.
• On 28 April 2010, a group of 19 Knesset members introduced a draft bill entitled “Associations (Amutot) Law (Amendment – Exceptions to the Registration and Activity of an Association), 2010”.(2) The aim of this bill is to close down any existing NGO registered in Israel, and to prohibit the registration of a new NGO, if “there are reasonable grounds to conclude that the association is providing information to foreign entities or is involved in legal proceedings abroad against senior Israeli government officials or IDF officers, for war crimes.” If passed, this bill has enormous potential to obstruct the activities of all human rights NGOs based in Israel and further inhibit the ability and responsibility of the international community to hold Israel to account for its war crimes and crimes against humanity.

• Raise Ameer Makhoul’s case in their official meetings with Israeli officials;
• Demand clarifications regarding the reason for Mr. Makhoul’s arrest and extended detention in official letters addressed to Israeli authorities;
• Demand Mr. Makhoul’s immediate release and the lifting of the travel ban against him;
• Pressure Israel to put an end to its policy of arbitrary detention and deportation of human rights defenders; and,
• Expand the military courts monitoring project to include monitoring of Israeli courts viewing cases of Palestinian citizens of Israel under political detention.

• Mr. Makhoul be released immediately, and the travel ban against him be lifted;
• Israeli security authorities immediately cease their unlawful arrest and detention policies of Palestinian human rights defenders; and,
• Israeli authorities end the practice of arbitrary detention, the use of ‘secret information’, and incommunicado detention.

• Write to your own elected and diplomatic representatives urging them to pressure Israel to release Mr. Makhoul and to put an end to the ongoing harassment against Palestinian human rights defenders.

Contact details for international embassies and consulates in Israel are available at: http://www.embassiesabroad.com/embassies-in/Israel

• Write to the International Bar Association to protest Israel’s use of arbitrary detention and the use of ‘secret information’ and incommunicado detentions: and,
• Write to Baroness Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the Vice President of the European Commission urging European intervention with Israel regarding political prosecutions inside Israel and current and pending legislation that outlaws human rights organizations.