Category: Press Releases

  • B’tselem: Means of Expulsion

    Violence, Harassment and Lawlessness Toward Palestinians in the Southern Hebron Hills Written by B’tselem. July 2005, Summary www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/ 200507_South_Hebron.asp In the southernmost West Bank , some one thousand Palestinians have maintained the way of life of their ancestors: living in caves and earning a living from farming and livestock. In the 1970s, the Israeli military…

  • Another child shot in Balata

    ISM Nablus 2am, 7th July 2005 Israeli armed vehicles arrived at the camp late in the evening. Despite the presence of two large groups of civilians, including two internationals, the soldiers began firing live rounds directly into the camp. We had not heard any Palestinian gunfire. When medics arrived on the scene minutes later we…

  • Harassment of Palestinian Ghandi continues

    Bil’in, 3.20 am Israeli Occupation Forces bang on the door of Abdallah Abu-Rahma, prominent member of the Popular Committee Against the Wall, demanding that he attends an interrogation session at Ofer Military Base at 12 o’clock midday with “Rizik”, or else “there will be trouble”. The notice was served on a handwritten piece of paper…

  • 4,050 Palestinians killed during intifada

    Report Source: Xinhua An official report said on Sunday that 4,050 Palestinians were killed and 44,848 others injured by the Israeli army since the beginning of the intifada, or uprising, against Israel’s occupation in September 2000. The report, issued by the State Information Service, said that Israeli military actions persisted even after Palestinian militant groups…

  • OPEN THE MAS’HA GATE – A Call to Action

    PLEASE, MAKE PHONE CALLS AND/OR SEND FAXES: (This is an example which gets to our attention. Getting one gate for one village opened is worth a few minutes of your time — and it DOES work sometimes – no less than participation in protests on the ground. Sometimes even more!) – Adam Keller & Beate…