This is an interview of Dr. Hassan Jabareen, director of Adalah (The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel), made by Orly Noy, chairwoman of B’Tselem (The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories) and a regulator contributor of Middle East Eye. It was originally published in Hebrew by the online Israeli–Palestinian media Siha Mekomit and has been translated by MEE without editorial changes.
It is still difficult to assess the full consequences of the year that has unfolded since the Hamas massacre in the southwestern Negev region last October, the kidnapping of over 250 people as hostages, and then the war of devastation in Gaza that is still ongoing.
Tens of thousands of Gazans have been killed, Israel is facing charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice, and meanwhile hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been turned into refugees. ….more