Tag: B’Tselem

  • Without Trial: Administrative detention of Palestinians by Israel and the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

    B’Tselem 16 October 2009 Report published by B’Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual Under international law, a state may detain a resident of occupied territory without trial to prevent danger only in extremely exceptional cases. Israel, however, holds hundreds of Palestinians for months and years under administrative orders, without prosecuting them.…

  • Hugo Chávez accuses Israel of genocide

    Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 9 September 2009 Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, has accused Israel of genocide against the Palestinians, saying the offensive in Gaza early this year was unprovoked. “The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They’re doing it openly,” he was quoted as saying in an interview…

  • B’Tselem publishes complete fatality figures from Operation Cast Lead

    B’Tselem 9 September 2009 Today (Wed. Sept 9th) Israeli human rights group B’Tselem published its findings on the number of Palestinians and Israelis killed in Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip. According to B’Tselem’s research, Israeli security forces killed 1,387 Palestinians during the course of the three-week operation. Of these, 773 did not take…

  • Settler stabs B’Tselem worker in Susiya

    B’Tselem 10 August 2009 This morning [Monday, 10 August], at about 7:30, I heard voices and shouting coming from the direction of the wadi near our village, Khirbet Susiya. I got up and took my stills camera and ran toward where the voices were coming from. On the way, I looked behind me and saw…

  • August 2009: night arrests in Bil’in

    B’Tselem 18 August 2009 Since June, armed forces have been entering the village of Bil’in at night and arresting residents. The soldiers arrive at the village, which lies west of Ramallah, with Israel Security Agency agents holding lists of persons suspected of involvement in the weekly demonstrations held in the village against the construction of…