ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY VICTORY: RELEASE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR

Lieutenant General Zamir,

I am writing to demand the immediate and unconditional release of Yuval Peleg, aged 18, who is currently serving a 30-day sentence at Neve Tzedek military prison for refusing to enlist in the Israeli military. This is Peleg’s fifth prison term, having been previously imprisoned for 100 days, and with this current sentence, Peleg will have spent a total of 130 days after initially refusing compulsory military service on July 21, 2025, at the recruitment center in Ramat Gan. Peleg should never have been imprisoned in the first .

Yuval Peleg had made his objection to military service on grounds of conscience clear before Israeli army representatives, as well as in a statement through the refusal process by the conscientious objector network, Mesarvot, prior to his summon date. However, the military classified his refusal as disobedience. Amnesty International considers Yuval Peleg and other conscientious objectors to be prisoners of conscience, detained solely for exercising their right to conscientious objection.

I urge you to ensure his immediate and unconditional release and to refrain from further prosecutions should he refuse to take part in future calls for conscription. I further call on you to support the introduction of legislation recognizing the right to conscientious objection to compulsory military service in line with the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion as laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Israel is a party.

Yours sincerely,

[YOUR NAME]