From Occupation to Interim Accords: Israel and the Palestinian Territories

Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer practising in Ramallah since 1979 and is barrister of Lincoln's Inn. He is one of the founders of Al-Haq, the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva. He was an advisor to the Palestinian negotiation team in Washington, D.C. from November 1991 to September 1992 and he has written a number of books and articles on the law and life in the Occupied Territories including, Ocupier's Law: Israel and the West Bank, Washington D.C. 1985, revised edition 1988, The Sealed Room: Selection from the Diary of a Palestinian Living under Israeli Occupation, September 1990- August 1991, London 1992 and the Weight of Legal History: Constraints and Hopes in the Search for a Sovereign Legal Language in The Arab-Israeli Accords: Legal Perspectives, edited by Eugene Cotran and Chibli Mallat, London 1996.

Introduction. 1. The Declaration of Principles. 2. The Interim Agreement. 3. The Legal Changes in the Occupied Territories Prior to the Interim Agreement. 4. The Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations. 5. Post-Agreements Legislation. Appendices.