Alert!! Israel is about to expel 500 Palestinian children, women and men from their homes in two communities in the Jordan Valley – Ein El Hilweh and Um Jamal, near the Maskiot settlement. The Palestinian communities – mainly Bedouins -have been under pressure to leave for a very long time. They are not connected to … Read more
The Nazareth Magistrate’s Court will hear the appeal of poet Dareen Tatour to abolish her house detention on Monday, November 20, at 10:00 am.Dareen was arrested on October 11, 2015. She spent 3 months in different prisons. Now, two years and a month after her arrest, she is still under house detention “until the end … Read more
On Sunday Nov 12 at 9:30 am in the Haifa district courtContinued hearing of the Zaytouna-Oliva release case by Honourable Judge Ron Sokol, vice president The boat Zaytouna-Oliva was captured by the Israeli navy in international waters on Oct 5, 2016Women’s Boat to Gaza was organized by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition in order to bring … Read more
A Kumbayah Moment or a Political Rally? Fascinating and troubling, the public debate leading up to tomorrow’s memorial ceremony marking 22 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The media are full of this discussion. Commanders for Israel’s Security and Darkenu, (“Our path”), who assumed responsibility for this year’s rally, state clearly in their websites’ … Read more
A new report, Unprotected: The Detention of Palestinian Teenagers in East Jerusalem, published today (25 October 2017) by human rights NGOs HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual and B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories reveals broad, systemic abuse by Israeli authorities – including the police, the … Read more
Women Wage Peace! “In the world in which we are living, peace will be possible only when women with integrity and hope will stand up for their right to be concerned about the future of their children”. (Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate)In September and October 2017, tens of thousands of … Read more
Wed., Oct. 11 – come to learn about the endangered communities of Khan Al Akhmar and Susya from residents and lawyers and others. Defense Minister Liberman has recently vowed to totally destroy the communities of Susya and Khan Al Akhmar in the coming months. These orders fall squarely in line with the systematic Israeli policies … Read more
The killings at Har Adar should serve as a wake-up call to a government which intends to hold tomorrow a “celebration” to mark fifty years of Israeli occupation and settlement in “Judea and Samaria”. The ministers who spent a great deal of public money for this “celebration” assert that we have “come home” to a … Read more
B’Tselem Executive Director, Hagai El-Ad said, following the State’s response submitted earlier today to the High Court of Justice, that the state was asking the court to authorize a war crime: “No sanctimonious language about a ‘planning, proprietary and realistic’ alternate, or ‘time to prepare’ can erase the disgrace or hide the facts: the destruction … Read more
B’Tselem Executive Director, Hagai El-Ad said, following the State’s response submitted earlier today to the High Court of Justice, that the state was asking the court to authorize a war crime: “No sanctimonious language about a ‘planning, proprietary and realistic’ alternate, or ‘time to prepare’ can erase the disgrace or hide the facts: the destruction … Read more