Soldier shoots and kills Muhammad Suliman (16) after he threw stones in Silwad
On Friday, 24 June 2022, at around 4:30 P.M., a group of 15 to 20 Palestinian teens gathered in an open field southwest of the town of Silwad in Ramallah….
Source: B'Tselem
[B’TSELEM->http://www.btselem.org/] – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories was established in February 1989 by a group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists, and Knesset members. It endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel.
53 civil society organizations in solidarity with the Palestinian organizations designated by Israel as “terrorist groups”
Defense of human rights is not terrorism. Israel is persisting in its declaration of prominent Palestinian civil society organizations as terrorist groups. Recently, the military put words into action by….
Joint call by Israeli civil society organizations to donors of designated Palestinian NGOs
In a joint statement published in Haaretz on 5 November 2021, we called on the international community to unequivocally oppose the Israeli government’s designation of six Palestinian civil society organizations….
Unwilling and Unable: Israel’s Whitewashed Investigations of the Great March of Return Protests
Summary of joint report with PCHR, December 2021 On 30 March 2018 – Land Day – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip began to hold regular protests along the perimeter fence,….
Joint Statement: Draconian measure against human rights
Last Friday, Israel’s new government crossed a line that no Israeli government has dared cross before, designating six Palestinian civil society organizations “terrorist organizations.” The shameful declaration says nothing about….
A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
More than 14 million people, roughly half of them Jews and the other half Palestinians, live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea under a single rule. The common….
During the Coronavirus crisis, Israel confiscates tents designated for clinic in the Northern West Bank
This morning, Thursday, 26 March 2020, at around 7:30 am, officials from Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank arrived with a military jeep escort, a bulldozer and two flatbed….
Israeli AG’s objection to ICC jurisdiction in Palestine divorced from reality
B’Tselem’s analysis finds AG’s claims, that the ICC has no jurisdiction in Palestine, rely on intentional misquotation, disregard for international law and an absurd misrepresentation of reality. Contrary to the AG’s position, the ICC has jurisdiction to carry out the necessary investigation of the situation in Palestine.
Contrary to military statement: ‘Abd a-Rahman a-Shteiwi, 9, was shot in the head with live ammunition
B’Tselem investigation published today proves a soldier fired live ammunition, hitting ‘Abd a-Rahman a-Shteiwi, 9, in the head. A-Shteiwi was injured last week while playing in the entrance to a home in Kafr Qadum during the weekly demonstration in the village. Now hospitalized in critical condition, he is the latest victim of the reckless open-fire policy that allows soldiers to use live fire even when neither they nor anyone else is in any danger.
Fake Justice: The Responsibility Israel’s High Court Justices Bear for the Demolition of Palestinian Homes and the Dispossession of Palestinians
Summary, February 2019 In early September 2018, after years of legal proceedings, the justices of Israel’s High Court of Justice (HCJ) determined there was no legal obstacle to demolishing the….