B’Tselem: Demolition of Palestinian homes “illegitimate”

[ PIC 21/08/2014 – 06:38 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The recurrent demolition procedures carried out by the Israeli occupation troops against Palestinian homes in Occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank are illegitimate operations targeting innocent civilians, left-wing B’Tselem organization said Wednesday. “23 Palestinians, including 13 innocent minors, have gone homeless after the Israeli invading troops […]

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Testimonies Prove Israel Tortures Palestinian Children

09/12/2013 | Stephen Lendman | Sabbah Report On August 22, B’Tselem headlined “Abuse and torture in interrogations of dozens of Palestinian minors in the Israel Police Etzion Facility.” More on that below. Previous articles discussed torturing, abusing, and otherwise mistreating Palestinian children young as 10. Sometimes younger. In July, Israel arrested and terrorized a five-year old boy. […]

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Israel considers using dogs to attack Palestinian workers legitimate

[ PIC 19/06/2013 – 09:52 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli B’Tselem organization reiterated its demand that the occupation authorities cease to use dogs against unarmed Palestinian civilians. Incidents in which the soldiers use dogs to attack civilians have continued to occur, which indicates that the military considers it legitimate to use attack dogs in […]

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B’Tselem condemns dog attacks

Maan News Agency | June 18, 2013 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli rights group B’tselem on Tuesday condemned Israel’s use of dogs to attack unarmed Palestinians. “The use of dogs to attack citizens in unacceptable and immoral,” B’Tselem’s executive director said in a letter to the legal consultant of the Israeli army in the West […]

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B’Tselem: The Israeli army uses lethal force against Palestinian protestors

[ PIC 28/01/2013 – 05:37 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– The human rights group B’Tselem said the Israeli army systematically violates international rules of engagement in the West Bank and allows its soldiers to use deadly force against the Palestinian protestors. In a new report on Monday, B’Tselem affirmed that over the past eight years, […]

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VIDEO | Israeli military shoots Palestinian boy

Published on Jan 6, 2013 Footage of an Israeli soldier opening fire on a group of Palestinian boys with live ammunition. His commanding officer can be seen telling him to calm down after he opened fire. Footage by Bt’Selem. An Israeli human rights organization.Muhammad al-Badan, 17, was wounded in the abdomen. He was taken to […]

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#WestBankUnderAttack | B’Tselem protests Israel’s use of live fire at West Bank protests

Note Occpal: Article 14 of the UN Basic Principles provides: “In the dispersal of violent assemblies, law enforcement officials may use firearms only when less dangerous means are not practicable and only to the minimum extent necessary.” Maan News Agency | Nov 23, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has written to […]

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#VIDEO | Welcome to Bir Nabala: Transformed into a Ghost-Town due to the Israeli Apartheid Wall

Nov 5, 2012 by btselem The town of Bir Nabala, next to Jerusalem, is trapped in an enclave of the Separation Barrier. A residential suburb of East Jerusalem since the 1970s, Bir Nabala enjoyed relative prosperity in the 1990s thanks to its central location and easy access to Ramallah and East Jerusalem, and from there […]

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Israeli rights group urges army to investigate Land Day death

Maan News Agency | April 5, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem wrote Thursday to the country’s military advocate urging a military police investigation into the death of a protester on Land Day in Gaza. Israeli forces used live fire against the demonstrators at Erez crossing. Several dozen youths were shot […]

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Absence of accountability encourages Israeli soldiers to kill Palestinians

MEMO – March 21, 2012 An Israeli human rights group has concluded that the absence of accountability “encourages soldiers to kill Palestinian civilians”. In its annual report published this week, the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, B’Tselem, said, “From the start of the second intifada in the year 2000 […]

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East Jerusalemites appeal to UN for help with garbage collection

Sunday, March 4 2012|Mya Guarnieri | 972 MAGAZINE Palestinian residents of Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, which is grossly lacking in municipal services, are looking elsewhere for help with garbage collection. Mynet (Hebrew) reports that residents of Qalandia and Kfar Akab are “drowning in garbage.” The two Palestinian neighborhoods are within the Israeli-drawn municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, […]

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When Palestine isn’t making headlines… ~ by @eldahshan

Related: All Attacks on Palestinians – Timeline – Category Jan 4, 2012 |  mohamed el dahshan’s weblog … this is what happens there, on a daily basis. Watch the 3-minute video summary of 2011, by the ever-remarkable Israeli Human Rights organization B’Tselem. It’s a short window about life in Palestine. I also urge you to […]

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B’Tselem: Extremists Jews Should be Dealt with as Criminals

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map Date : 14/12/2011   Time : 19:37 | WAFA The village of Duma – truck ignited. Today, 14:12:11, in the morning, settlers torched vehicles and sprayed Hebrew inscriptions in three villages in the northern West Bank, near Ariel. Photo:  B’ ‘Tselem, 14:12:11.   TEL AVIV, December […]

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Tristan Anderson civil suit delayed as new evidence emerges ~ by Charlotte Silver

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada | 3 December 2011 Newly discovered video footage shows the Israeli army in Nilin village the day US activist Tristan Anderson was shot. (Oren Ziv /ActiveStills ) “If he had been a Palestinian, he would have gone to the Ramallah hospital […]

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B’Tselem: Israeli govt responsible for Qusra attacks

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Maan News Agency | Oct 7, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities are failing to stop settler attacks on Nablus village Qusra, which has faced a repeated campaign of harassment from Israeli settlers, an Israeli rights group said on Thursday. Israeli settlers uprooted 200 olive trees in the […]

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