最近发生的涉及定居者和以色列国防军士兵之间合作的袭击似乎是以色列正式吞并整个约旦河西岸的努力的前奏。
TEL AVIV -- Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has provided evidence showing Israeli soldiers joining settlers in a series of attacks targeting the Palestinian village of ‘Urif, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The village, home to
As the video’s description notes, these Israeli soldiers casually discussing how to shoot a man who is trying to clear road access to his home is “part of the discordant soundtrack accompanying 51 years of occupation.”
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – Israeli human rights group B’Tselem released a video on Tuesday that shows an Israeli soldier celebrating and shouting “that son of a bitch” after shooting an unarmed Palestinian protester with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the town of Madama in Palestine’s West Bank.
Israeli human-rights group B’Tselem has launched a campaign titled “Sorry Commander, I Cannot Shoot” in preparation for the march, calling on Israeli troops – most of whom are conscripts – to refuse orders to shoot unarmed demonstrators.
GAZA -- Tens of thousands of residents in the besieged Gaza Strip plan on returning to the Israeli-controlled border Friday in defiance of menacing promises from Tel Aviv to use massive and disproportionate force. The event will occur exactly one week after the Israelis massacred 17 unarmed demonstrators with live ammunition on Palestinian Land
A report by B’Tselem concludes, “changes Israel made have had no more than a negligible impact on minors’ rights”, and seem to have had “far more to do with improved appearances than with what happens in actual practice”.
A new report by respected Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem has demolished claims made by Israeli authorities that significant ‘reforms’ have been made to the system of military
Khan al-Ahmar is one of 46 Palestinian Bedouin villages comprising of a population of 7,000 in the central West Bank that is considered by the UN as being at risk of forcible transfer by Israel.
Israeli forces have notified residents of the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar that they are at risk of imminent forcible transfer from their lands, weeks after Israeli Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly announced that plans were underway to expel Khan al-Ahmar’s residents within a few months. Lieberman also
Netanyahu has made a concerted effort to isolate the NGOs from the international community, condemning any involvement the groups have with the United Nations.
Under intense attack from the far-right Netanyahu government, Israel’s anti-occupation NGOs B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence got support from an unlikely source today: the Trump Administration, whose State Department defended the groups’ rights to express viewpoints contrary to
