The Israeli government has “regularized” the previously unrecognized Jewish outpost of Havat Gilad in the occupied West Bank, and will be connecting it to the electrical and water grids, and paving an access road for “security and humanitarian reasons.” The government and the Ministerial Committee for Legislation are also considering a bill that would allow…
Hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis marched in the occupied West Bank village on Nabi Saleh on Saturday, January 14, to demand that Israel free the Tamimi family women, 16-year-old Ahed and her mother Nariman, as well as other members of the popular resistance committees who have been arrested by Israeli soldiers over the past several…
During the month of November, Yesh Din documented 27 incidents of violence against Palestinians and damage to their property in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Among them were 17 cases of violence or damage to property by Israeli civilians, 13 involving the olive harvest, including the theft of olives from hundreds of trees on…
Israeli settlers reportedly attacked a group of Palestinian olive pickers on Friday, October 27, in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, according to the official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa news agency. Wafa reported that settlers from the settlement of Maon, built illegally on land belonging to the nearby town of Yatta, physically assaulted…
Since the olive harvest began in the occupied West Bank about two weeks ago, Yesh Din has documented more than 10 cases of bodily violence perpetrated against Palestinians in addition to the theft of olives and the destruction of trees. A resident of the settlement Eli was detained after he was caught while allegedly stealing…
This fall, Palestinian farmers need your support. September is here and as the annual olive harvest approaches, the olives, green, purple, and black, are growing plump and ripening, in the occupied West Bank. “Of course, those olives are on the trees that have not been chopped down, burned, or poisoned by settlers,” said Zakaria Sadah,…
Tensions were running high in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday, July 21, as thousands of Palestinians marched towards the Old City to denounce increased Israeli security measures at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which the cabinet decided to maintain earlier in the day, despite recommendations from the state’s own security agencies. Several Joint List MKs participated…
Rabbis for Human Rights are seeking action against signs posted without authorization on private Palestinian property as well as the unauthorized replacement of street signs in Arabic with others in Hebrew and English and which bear new names of streets where the majority of residents are Palestinians. The army has refused to act against this…
Israel’s far-right minister of defense, Avigdor Liberman, announced on Sunday, April 30, that Ahmad Dawabsheh, whose home in Duma near Nablus in the Palestinian occupied territories was destroyed in an arson attack by Israeli settlers two years ago, is not eligible to receive compensation from the state. Ahmad’s parents and younger brother died as a…
The Israeli NGO “Breaking the Silence” offers guided tours to Hebron and the South Hebron Hills in the Palestinian occupied West Bank, allowing an unmediated encounter with the reality of military occupation. The tour guides, all former combatants who served in these areas, share from their experiences to help illustrate the Israeli government’s policies enacted…