Summary

Israeli deputy attorney general who led the commission of inquiry appointed by the attorney general in 1981 into settler violence in the West Bank (Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, PDF p.133).

Details

  • Her report, submitted in spring 1982 but not published until 1984, showed that of seventy cases of “murder, damage to property and vigilante activities allegedly by settlers,” only fifteen had been investigated by police (PDF p.133).
  • By 1985, Raja Shehadeh, who had given evidence to the Knesset State Control Committee on the West Bank legal system following publication of the Karp report, was recording still no action on its recommendations (PDF p.133).
  • The Karp report is also cited as recognizing that Palestinians had no faith in Israeli investigations, in process or outcome (PDF p.141).

Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, Raja Shehadeh, Al-Haq