B'Tselem publishes its 2006 annual statistics. This past year, we witnessed a deterioration in the human rights situation in the Occupied Territories , particularly in the increase in civilians...
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B'Tselem publishes its 2006 annual statistics. This past year, we witnessed a deterioration in the human rights situation in the Occupied Territories , particularly in the increase in civilians...
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The High Court of Justice accepted the petition filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel on behalf of Palestinians from the southern Hebron hills to remove a concrete barricade that...
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Azzun 'Atmah, a village with 1,800 residents located southeast of Qalqiliya, lies three kilometers from the Green Line (Israel's 1967 border). The settlement Sha'are Tikva was built just east of it,...
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'Adnan a-Shtiyeh, taxi driver I am a taxi driver. I run the route between our village and Nablus . Yesterday (Tuesday, 12 December), around 1:30 P.M., I got to the area known as al-Muhalal, about one...
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Nine Israeli human rights organizations issued an unprecedented joint call to the international community to ensure human rights in the Gaza Strip. The statement comes in light of the dire...
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Israel must finance the rehabilitation of the power plant it bombed in the Gaza Strip. This is one of the conclusions of B'Tselem's new report, Act of Vengeance, which describes and analyzes the...
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For almost six years, Israel has prevented family unification between Palestinian residents of the Occupied Territories and their spouses from abroad, and has prohibited family members from visiting...
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In the early morning hours of 28 June 2006, following the abduction of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, the Israeli Air Force attacked the only electrical power plant operating in the Gaza Strip. Six missiles were...
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The Military Police will investigate eight cases in which Palestinians complained that soldiers beat and abused them. The decision was conveyed by an attorney from the Central Command to B'Tselem,...
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On 30 August 2006, B'Tselem wrote to the Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, and informed him there was reason to believe that the security establishment has been using the Rafah crossing to put pressure...
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B'Tselem's research indicates that, since the beginning of Operation Summer Rain in the Gaza Strip, on 25 June 2006, there has been a substantial increase in cases in which soldiers and Border Police...
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Today, B'Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, are publishing Perpetual Limbo , a report on Israel 's policy freezing family unification for Palestinians in the Occupied...
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In July, the Israeli military killed 163 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, 78 of whom (48 percent) were not taking part in the hostilities when they were killed. Thirty-six of the fatalities were...
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Researched and written by Antigona Ashkar Edited by Yehezkel Lein Data coordination by Maha Abu Salah, Yael Handelsman, Meysa Horani, Roni Peli Fieldwork by 'Itaf Abu a-Rob, Musa Abu Hashhash, Salma...
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B'Tselem's initial investigation indicates that, during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2006, soldiers seized control of two buildings in the...
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Today, July 11, 2006, six human rights groups petitioned the Israeli High Court demanding that the crossings in Gaza be opened to allow for the steady and regular supply of fuel, food, medicine, and...
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Two years ago today [9 July 2004], the International Court of Justice, in The Hague , gave its advisory opinion on the Separation Barrier. The judges held that building the barrier in the West Bank...
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During its operation in the Gaza Strip following the abduction of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, Israeli air force jets have carried out low-altitude sorties over the Gaza Strip in which they intentionally cause...
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B'Tselem's Web site today published the fatality figures for June 2006 in the Occupied Territories and Israel . Forty-two Palestinians, six of them minors, were killed by Israeli armed forces...
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B'Tselem today sent an urgent request to Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz to instruct Israeli forces to refrain from bombing or deliberately damaging in any way facilities that supply...