Gisha executive director Tania Hary participated in sessions on Gaza and the work of human rights organizations in Israel in the J Street National Conference in Washington D.C.
February 28, 2017, Gisha executive director Tania Hary participated in the annual J Street National Conference in Washington D.C. During a session addressing human rights defenders in Israel, Hary said: “The human rights violations we come across aren’t just a byproduct of the conflict, but a tool designed to maintain the status quo”. Read More »

Following Gisha petition, HCJ issues order nisi instructing the Ministry of Interior to explain discrimination in the registration process against Israeli citizens who marry foreign nationals
The High Court granted Gisha’s request and issued an order nisi (conditional order) instructing the state to explain, within 60 days, why it delays the registration of marriages between Israeli citizens and foreigners. Gisha filed the petition about 18 months ago, challenging sections in a Ministry of Interior procedure that allow ministry officials to delay the registration of marriage in ID cards when Israeli citizens marry foreign nationals. Read More »

Meetings in Sderot with activists in the Movement for the Future of the Western Negev and Meretz Members of Knesset
May 16, 2016. The discussions also addressed how Israel continues to control the Gaza Strip since disengagement Read More »

Following Gisha advocacy, Palestinians will be allowed into Eilat
November 9, 2015. Until recently, Palestinians who received permits to enter Israel were barred from entering the Israeli city of Eilat. Two years after we exposed the fact that no one knew why the policy was in place – it has been changed. Read More »

One day after going to court: Israelis allowed to return to their families
October 13, 2015. Authorities refused Israelis’ return to Gaza. After petitions were filed, approval suddenly given Read More »

Gisha briefs Security Council
July 20, 2015. Gisha’s deputy director in a brief to the Security Council Read More »

Exhibition at Tel Aviv Cinematheque: Distant | Relatives
July 14, 2015. A new photography exhibition looks at the lives of 3 families divided between Gaza and West Bank Read More »

S’s application were repeatedly refused even though she met the criteria
March 11, 2015. S met her son who is incarcerated in Israel only twice during the first eight years of his sentence, due to persistent denials of her requests to exit Gaza. Only after Gisha intervened was S permitted to visit her son again, after not having seen him for a year Read More »

Your mother passed away? Please wait here
December 31, 2014. Samah’s mother passed away, and she spent the first day of mourning on a bench at the DCO. She received a permit to visit with her grieving family in Gaza only the next day. COGAT: “All the necessary conclusions were drawn”. Read More »

Received passports, but were compelled to leave their family
October 26, 2014. Two sisters born in Gaza to an Israeli mother are, by law, Israeli citizens themselves. Due to registration problems, they lived for years without any official documentation: neither Palestinian nor Israeli. Following Gisha’s intervention, they received Israeli passports but had to leave their home. Read More »

She wanted to stay a little longer with her father and got stranded in Gaza.
May 28, 2014. When Sara (not her real name) decided to spend more time with her father in the Gaza Strip, she didn’t know Rafah Crossing would close and that she would end up staying in Gaza for much longer than expected Read More »