What we do
We turn impunity into legal action
Our method brings together three areas of work: research, law and communication.
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Research
Documentary research, source analysis (WEBINT, OSINT, digital forensics…), verification and knowledge of corporate and institutional structures.
02
Law
Analysis of liability, identification of jurisdictions and procedural routes, risk assessment and building litigation strategies.
03
Communication
We publish our investigations and share progress in the courts to influence public opinion and strengthen the Palestine solidarity movement.
Strategic goals
Identify who is responsible
Investigate which companies, institutions and individuals provide material, financial, technological, logistical or institutional resources to the Israeli regime.
Build evidence
Produce legally relevant investigations that document relationships, contracts, investments, supply chains and institutional decisions.
Trigger accountability mechanisms
Use existing legal and administrative routes to hold those responsible to account.
Make accountability real
Bring those responsible to justice and obtain rulings that recognise and sanction their conduct, contributing to justice, reparation and non-repetition.
Create impact and precedent
Choose cases that can change practices, set precedents, open new routes to accountability and raise the cost of complicity.
Our cases
In recent years, the professionals behind Hadaf have brought and taken part in a series of legal actions that have already produced results.
We seek to end the arms relationship between Spain and Israel.
Administrative litigation · May 2024
Lawsuit against the Secretary of State for Trade
Brought by the Comunitat Palestina de Catalunya before the National High Court after the Government failed to respond to a request to revoke and suspend all current foreign trade licences for defence and dual-use material to or from Israel.
We want to force the Government to comply with the law that prohibits authorising arms transfers where there is a risk they will contribute to serious human rights violations.
The Israeli army has stopped receiving 2,280 tonnes of military steel worth €2.9 million, enough to make some 48,000 projectiles.
Criminal proceedings · June 2025
Criminal complaint against Sidenor
Against the Basque steel company Sidenor, over its continued shipments of military steel to Israeli arms companies such as IMI Systems. As an immediate effect, shipments to the Israeli military industry have stopped since July 2025.
We accuse Sidenor and its board of smuggling defence material and of complicity in genocide or crimes against humanity.
We have ensured that Maersk ships no longer use Spanish port infrastructure to transfer arms to Israel.
Criminal proceedings · April 2025
Criminal complaint against Maersk Spain
For its alleged involvement in smuggling defence material. Its board is also under investigation for alleged complicity in crimes against humanity or genocide.
The complaint documents the transit through Spanish ports of ships involved in carrying military material bound for Israel, including components for F-35 fighter jets.
In the press · La Vanguardia
“A Barcelona court investigates two Maersk ships over arms trade with Israel”
Action plan
New investigations and lawsuits
We have identified at least 5 corporations that have recently taken part in transfers of military or dual-use material to the Israeli army.
More research capacity
Databases and relationship maps that cross-reference corporate, financial, contractual and institutional information.
Raise visibility and multiply impact
Publish our investigations and share progress in the legal proceedings.
What we need
Legal resources
Fees for lawyers and court representatives, expert reports, bonds, translations and court fees in national and international proceedings.
Independent funding
Small and medium donations from a broad community, together with philanthropy compatible with our independence.
Research and technology
Corporate databases, registries, digital tools and secure systems for handling sensitive information.
Network of collaborators and community
Professionals and organisations in different jurisdictions, and a community that sustains the project in the long term.
Estimated budget — legal work
The association’s financial model is based on outsourcing legal action to our partner law firms, keeping our own staffing to a minimum.
At present, the association has no paid staff: the work is done by our members on a voluntary basis, and there are no plans to hire staff in the short term.
This model allows almost all of our financial resources to go to substantive legal work — litigation, research and case follow-up — keeping overheads and internal management costs to a minimum.
Estimated budget
€60,000
Continuing open proceedings
Follow-up and management of ongoing cases as they develop (dismissal, continuation, appeals, expert reports, etc.).
Opening new proceedings
Filing and pursuing 5 new legal proceedings.
Research and analysis of new cases
An estimated 200 hours of legal work to assess and prepare new cases.
The €60,000 figure is an overall estimate based on standard fees for continuing the open proceedings, opening five new ones and 200 hours of research and analysis. It is not a per-case breakdown, because the fees for each case depend on variables that are hard to predict (dismissal or continuation, appeals, expert reports, etc.), and it does not include other items such as communication. Once the work has been carried out, the association will itemise the costs of each lawsuit on the transparency page of its website. See transparency