RAMALLAH _ Palestine News Network
The Palestinian public believes that the Israeli occupation has a role to play in weakening the efforts to strengthen the rule of law in order to obstruct justice in the areas under its control, according to a report by the Palestinian Center for the Independence of Law and Justice.
According to the report, which was reviewed by the Mossawa Center during a press conference held in Ramallah today, in order to know the views of the Palestinian society on the performance of the Palestinian justice system and to show the variable in the situation of justice in Palestine between 2015 and 2018, 59% of the respondents surveyed in the West Bank Westerners believe that Palestinians are being taken to areas under Israeli control to escape justice, with 54% seeing it in the Gaza Strip.
In the opinion of the respondents in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the judicial system is not independent of external influences. Those who believe that the Palestinian state succeeded in maintaining the independence of the judiciary are 18.2% in the Gaza Strip and 53.4% They have 28.4%.
In the West Bank, the percentage of the public who believe that the Palestinian state has succeeded in maintaining the independence of the judiciary is 30.5%, while 29.7% believe that it is neutral or 39.8% do not.
"The report is divided into nine questionnaires that took the views of the respondents in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in cooperation with several institutions, including the Central Bureau of Statistics, in addition to the opinion of the people in the justice system and their opinion," said Shaker Khalil, the author of the report. In addition to the opinion of the university students, their teachers, practicing lawyers, practicing lawyers, judges, public prosecutors and beneficiaries of the services provided by the Ministry of Justice. "
The report is in more than 300 pages and was prepared within seven months. The Executive Director of the Musawah Center, Ahlam Tarayra, told Al Quds.com that the first legal observatory to report to the Center was in 2007 and we publish every two years a report To show the variable in the justice system ".
"There is a slight positive improvement in the justice system, but there must be a positive improvement in the justice system," she said. remarqable improvement".
The survey shows that 25.4% of the respondents in the Gaza Strip believe that the Palestinian judiciary enjoys impartiality, impartiality and justice compared to other Arab countries, while 46.7% oppose it while 27.9% are neutral or have no opinion.
In the West Bank, 33.9% of the public believes that the Palestinian judiciary enjoys impartiality, impartiality and justice compared to other Arab countries, while 28.1% oppose it while 38% are neutral or opinion-less.
The results showed that only 18.8% of the public in the Gaza Strip believe that the status of the judiciary in Palestine is improving while 53.8% oppose it.
In the West Bank, the percentage of respondents who believe that the situation of the judiciary in Palestine is improving is 37.4%, while 29.2% believe that the opposite is true and 33.4% say they are neutral.
34.7% of the West Bank public believes that the security services interfere with the work of the judiciary and only 12.1% oppose it. In Gaza, 45.4% of the Palestinians believe that the security services interfere with the work of the judiciary and 19.8% disagree.
The report pointed out that the public in the Gaza Strip that the performance of staff in the courts and the prosecution is not transparent and corruption is widespread, while the public in the West Bank to say that the performance of staff in the courts and the prosecution is transparent and free of corruption.
On the other hand, the findings of the report found that Palestinian law schools contribute to the development of the legal profession, and that admission criteria in law faculties contribute to raising the level of faculties and the number of teachers in the law school they work in. Rights are great for the country´s need, and the curriculum at the law school they work in is excellent.
The results showed that there is no improvement in the status of the judiciary in Palestine, and that appointments and promotions in the judiciary are not transparent, and the appointment of judges is not based on their knowledge, experience and impartiality. Unfair and corrupt, the institutions of the Palestinian justice system are independent and ineffective, Palestinian judges are not independent, Palestinian prosecutors are not independent, and civilian police Palestinian dishonest and where there is corruption. Despite their pessimistic view of the reality of the judiciary, their opinion on the professional level of the judges is good and the professional level of prosecutors is also good.
On the status of the judiciary, the report pointed out that law school students believe that the appointment in the judiciary is not transparent. However, judges are currently appointed on the basis of their knowledge and experience in the West Bank and not in the Gaza Strip. Judicial decisions, and that judgments issued by the judiciary are subject to external pressures and pressures, and law students in general see that the Palestinian judiciary is not fair and there is corruption.
On the other hand, lawyers in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip agree that lawyers do not seek to develop themselves as the most important reason for the weakness of the legal profession, followed by the weakness of law faculties.
When comparing the opinions of lawyers on the general situation of the justice sector between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, there is greater optimism in the West Bank than in the Gaza Strip about the continuity of improvement in the judiciary, and the degree of corruption of the Palestinian judiciary is slightly higher in the Gaza Strip.
With regard to prosecutors, the problems facing their work in the Gaza Strip are more than in the West Bank. The ranking of these problems varies between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The most prominent problems in the West Bank were the inadequacy of prosecutors, followed by the intervention of the security services in the work of the Public Prosecution. In the Gaza Strip, the most prominent problems faced by prosecutors were the involvement of the security services in their work, followed by the lack of independence of the public prosecution and the inefficiency of its members.
