Tag: B’Tselem

  • B’Tselem: ‘Stop whitewashing suspected crimes in Gaza’

    B’Tselem 19 March 2009 Israeli human rights organizations have reiterated demands that Attorney General Menachem Mazuz reconsider his refusal to establish an independent investigative body to examine military proceedings during Operation Cast Lead. Such an investigation is critical following the revelation of soldier testimonies concerning the killing of innocent Palestinians revealed this morning in Haaretz.…

  • Security forces use tear-gas canisters as weapons

    B’Tselem 18 March 2009 B’Tselem today requested the judge advocate general, Brig. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, to immediately clarify to security forces in the Occupied Territories that it is absolutely forbidden to aim tear-gas canisters, including extended-range type canisters, directly at demonstrators in the West Bank. Firing of this kind has already resulted in injury, some…

  • Guardian: Israelis ‘firing live rounds’ at West Bank protesters

    Peter Beaumont | The Guardian Israeli armed forces and border police used the cover of the war against Hamas in Gaza to reintroduce the firing of .22 rifle bullets – as well as the extensive use of a new model of tear-gas canister – against unarmed demonstrators in the Occupied West Bank protesting at the…

  • B’Tselem: Testimony of 12-year-old beaten and imprisoned with adults

    Testimony taken by B’Tselem from Mohammad Khawaje who was arrested from Ni’lin on the 11th September 2008 To view original testimony taken by B’Tselem click here Muhammad Khawajah I live with my family in Ni’lin. We live on the ground floor of the house, my two uncles and their families live on the first floor,…