11 Israeli civil society organizations issue joint call to donors of designated Palestinian NGOs to maintain and even increase their funding. In a joint statement published in Haaretz on 5 November...
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Unwilling and Unable: Israel's Whitewashed Investigations of the Great March of Return Protests [EN/AR/HE]
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, demanding an end to the...
State Business: Israel’s misappropriation of land in the West Bank through settler violence [EN/AR/HE]
Settler violence against Palestinians is a daily matter in the West Bank. Instead of taking preventive action, the Israeli authorities aid and abet the settlers in harming Palestinians and using...
Bombing civilian objects is a war crime [EN/AR/HE]
Since launching its latest offensive on the Gaza Strip, Israel has bombed dozens of structures, including apartments, offices, government facilities and businesses, as well as civilian infrastructure...
New all population Israeli-Palestinian survey: 45% of those living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea believe “apartheid” is an appropriate description of the regime
B’Tselem is publishing the results of its new commissioned public opinion survey. The survey, conducted by Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin and Dr. Khalil Shikaki, took a fresh approach by examining what all...
Israeli police enter Qalandia Refugee Camp, assault Palestinian teen, fire indiscriminately, and injure five
On Monday, 17 December 2020, at around 8:00 A.M., Border Police and Special Patrol Unit (SPU) forces entered Qalandiya Refugee Camp, which is mostly located in the Palestinian Authority, outside...
Repeat demolitions of Khirbet Humsah are test case for international community
Yesterday, Israel demolished the Palestinian community of Khirbet Humsah for the fourth time, following twice last week and once in November 2020. These actions -- carried out in the midst of a...
2020 in the Occupied Territories: Heinous killings, settler violence and a home demolitions spike
Fatalities Over the course of 2020, Israeli security forces killed 27 Palestinians, seven of them minors: one in the Gaza Strip, 23 in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and three inside...
Joint Statement: 10 Israeli, Palestinian and international health and human rights organizations: Israel must provide necessary vaccines to Palestinian health care systems
As the Israeli healthcare system begins the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines to the Israeli public, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Israeli authorities to live up to their legal...
In pandemic, of all times: Number of Palestinians Israel has left homeless hits four-year record
In the midst of an unprecedented health and economic crisis, more Palestinians in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) lost their homes in the first 10 months of 2020 alone than in any full year...
The Annexation That Was and Still Is
With or without flights to Abu Dhabi, Israel annexed the West Bank long ago As part of its normalization of ties with the United Arab Emirates, Israel has decided, at least for the time being, not to...
Gisha and 16 other organizations in letter to Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs: Stop the ministry’s harassment of United Nations OHCHR staff
October 22, 2020. In an unprecedented move, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to stop issuing visas for foreign nationals employed by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner...
Israeli policy of bombing crowded areas in Gaza takes fresh toll: head injuries in two children and damage to homes
The Israeli military has reported that over three weeks, from 6 to 31 August 2020, it attacked more than 100 targets in the Gaza Strip using tanks and airplanes. During that time, Palestinians fired...
Water in Gaza: Scarce, polluted and mostly unfit for use
Some two million Gazans suffer from a constant shortage of water, which gets worse in summer. The tap water is salty and polluted and is not fit for drinking. In the absence of other alternatives,...
B’Tselem investigation: Settlers assault Palestinians and file false reports against them; military arrests the victims
State-backed settler violence against Palestinians – which ranges from killing and injuring individuals to damaging property and land – has long been a routine part of the occupation. The military...
Despite coronavirus outbreak: Israel ramps up demolition of West Bank Palestinian homes in June
Last month saw a spike in Israeli demolitions, which left 151 Palestinians, including 84 minors, homeless -- despite the danger of remaining without shelter during a pandemic. In June alone, Israel...
Another military incursion into a refugee camp, another teen egregiously killed
On Wednesday morning, 13 May 2020, at around 5:30 A.M., a commercial van bearing Palestinian license plates drove into the Beit Jibrin neighborhood in the eastern section of al-Fawar Refugee Camp,...
This is Jerusalem: Violence and Dispossession in al-‘Esawiyah
Summary, May 2020 Since April 2019, the Israel Police has been engaged in a campaign of abuse and collective punishment against the neighborhood of al-‘Esawiyah in East Jerusalem. The operation...
In the face of potential COVID-19 outbreak in the Gaza Strip, Israel is obliged to take measures to save lives, permitting the entry of medical equipment and supplies, to meet patients’ needs
With over 250 identified COVID-19 Palestinian patients in the West Bank and potentially dozens in the Gaza Strip we, the undersigned organizations, express grave concern in the face of a potential...
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 trucks with...