Updates

Area C

High Court Justices to State: We Expect You to Agree to Mediation on ‘Firing Zone 918′

On September 2, 2013 the High Court of Justice (Court President Asher Grunis and Justices Hanan Meltzer and Daphne Barak-Erez) held the first hearing in the renewed petitions against the forced…

3 September 2013

East Jerusalem

The Ministry of the Interior expels Bedouin community living decades in Jerusalem area

On 19 Aug. 2013, Israeli authorities demolished all the homes of the Bedouin community of Tal ‘Adasa, north of Jerusalem, and gave them ten days to leave the spot. The community is being forced to…

26 August 2013

Open-Fire Policy

Military force that killed three Palestinians stayed in Qalandia Camp until almost 7am

According to B’Tselem’s initial investigation into the incident that took place this morning (26 August) in which three Palestinians were killed by Israeli security forces’ fire in Qalandia Refugee…

26 August 2013

Beating and Abuse

Abuse and torture in interrogations of dozens of Palestinian minors in the Israel Police Etzion Facility

Since Nov. 2009, B’Tselem has received testimonies from dozens of Palestinian minors alleging that they were subjected to threats and violence, sometimes amounting to torture, under interrogation at…

21 August 2013

East Jerusalem

The Ministry of the Interior threatens to expel Bedouin community living decades in Jerusalem area

On 19 Aug. 2013, the Ministry of the Interior demolished all the homes of the Tal ‘Adasa Bedouin community, located near Beit Hanina, after pressuring its members to leave the area since 2005…

19 August 2013

East Jerusalem

In the spotlight: Revocation of residency in East Jerusalem

Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem are classed as “permanent residents”, a status usually accorded to foreign nationals wishing to live in Israel and which can be revoked relatively easily…

18 August 2013

No Accountability

Six months after Turkel second report published, time to implement recommendations

Six months after the Turkel Commission’s issued its report on Israel’s investigative policy of alleged violations of laws of war, B’Tselem published a position paper on the report. While the…

11 August 2013

Agriculture

Masked settlers suspected of attacking Palestinian shepherd; police closes investigation

'Omar Hushiyeh told B’Tselem that he was attacked by masked men on 14 July 2013, as he was walking his flock home. When soldiers came by, the assailants fled. The soldiers did not pursue the…

6 August 2013

No Accountability

B'Tselem Appealed the Closing of the Investigation File into the Killing of Ibrahim Sarhan

Ibrahim Sarhan, 21, was shot and killed by soldiers in July of 2011, at the al-Far'ah refugee camp, in the Tubas district. The MAG corps decided not to serve indictments against the soldiers who…

1 August 2013

Detainees & Prisoners

Video: Police officer slaps detainee, Hebron police station, 21 July 2013

On Sunday, 21 July 2013, B’Tselem camera volunteer Raed Abu Ermeileh filmed video footage of a police officer slapping a detainee, who appeared to be a minor. He slapped the detainee several times on…

1 August 2013

Detainees & Prisoners

Israeli military's West Bank Legal Advisor finds nothing wrong with detaining 5-year-old boy

On 22 July 2013, the Israeli military's Legal Advisor in Judea and Samaria responded to B'Tselem's letter regarding the grave incident in which soldiers detained a five-year-old boy in Hebron for two…

1 August 2013

Agriculture

Firing Zone 918 - Their home is no firing zone!

What if someone were to barge into your home, declare it a military training zone and evict you? That's the case for some 1000 Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills. The Israeli military called their…

1 August 2013

Demonstrations

ACRI and B'Tselem: Stop Firing Rubber Bullets at Protestors in the West Bank

The army must end its use of rubber bullets as a means to disperse demonstrations in the occupied territories, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and B'Tselem have demanded in a letter…

31 July 2013

Agriculture

Military sanctions settlers’ illegal takeover of privately-owned Palestinian farmland

Residents of ‘Awarta have recently been notified of requisition orders issued by the military “on security grounds” for some 63 dunams of land that they own, close to the Itamar settlement. In 2000…

28 July 2013

The Gaza Strip

Israel must take action to regulate the status of tens of thousands of Gazans living without IDs

40,000 to 50,000 individuals currently live in the Gaza Strip without ID cards recognized by Israel, nor do they have any official status elsewhere in the world. Some of them were born in the Gaza…

23 July 2013

Demonstrations

B’Tselem spokesperson injured by rubber-coated metal bullet fired by Border Police officer

On 19 July 2013 B’Tselem Spokesperson Sarit Michaeli was hit and injured by a rubber-coated metal bullet a Border Police officer fired at her while she was filming a demonstration at the village of a…

21 July 2013

Restrictions on Movement

Military repeatedly blocks access road to 'Azzun, collectively punishing thousands of residents

The village of 'Azzun, population approximately 10,000, is located east of the city of Qalqiliya. The military routinely blocks the main entrance to the village from Road 55 for a few hours to a few…

18 July 2013

Beating and Abuse

The first of its kind

B'Tselem spokesperson Sarit Michaeli published an article in the Hebrew daily, Ma'ariv. The article responds to claims by Ma'ariv columnist Ben Dror Yamini that the detention of a 5 year-old…

17 July 2013

Area C

Law enforcement in the West Bank is enslaved to the settlement project

B'Tselem responded to the report of Israel's State Comptroller, which states that Israelis living in 83 settlements in the West Bank do not pay leasing fees for land they received from the state and…

17 July 2013

The Gaza Strip

HCJ dismisses petition demanding the military cease use of white phosphorous

On 9 July 2013, the High Court of Justice dismissed a petition demanding that the Israeli military cease all use of white phosphorous in civilian areas. The petition, filed by Advocates Michael Sfard…

14 July 2013

Beating and Abuse

Video: Soldiers beat journalists filming demonstration, Kafr Qadum, 21 June 2013

On 21 June 2013, during the weekly demonstration at Kafr Qadum to protest the closing of the road that links the village to the city of Nablus, Israeli soldiers attacked a reporter and a…

14 July 2013

Detainees & Prisoners

Video footage: Soldiers detain Palestinian five-year-old in Hebron

B'Tselem has written urgently to the Legal Adviser in Judea and Samaria, demanding his response to a grave incident in which soldiers detained a five-year-old boy in Hebron for two hours, after he…

11 July 2013

General

B'Tselem's Executive Director selected as one of the 100 most influential people in armed violence reduction

Action on Armed Violence has selected B'Tselem's Executive Director Jessica Montell as one of 100 people working to make the world a safer place. The organization, dedicated to reducing armed violence…

8 July 2013

Demonstrations

Two Palestinian women to be tried in Israeli military court this week for non-violent demonstration

The military court trial of Nariman a-Tamimi and Rana Hamadah, two Palestinian women arrested at a non-violent demonstration in a-Nabi Saleh, will begin on 9 July 2013. This legal action is…

7 July 2013