Tag: Yesh Din

  • Calls for independent investigation into military’s conduct during Operation Cast Lead

    B’Tselem 30 March 2009 Israeli human rights organizations say, in response to the Israeli Army’s speedy closing of internal investigation files about war crimes in Operation Cast Lead: The speedy closing of the investigation immediately raises suspicions that the very opening of this investigation was merely the army’s attempt to wipe its hands of all…

  • Settlers using government transition to step up construction

    Amos Harel | Ha’aretz 29 March 2009 Construction activity on West Bank settlements has increased in the transition period between the February general election and the formation of the new government, Haaretz has learned. One notable example is the extensive earthworks being carried out in preparation for the construction of a road connect the settlement…

  • Rights group demands freeze on Israeli exploitation of West Bank quarries

    Haaretz 9 March 2009 Israel is violating international law by exploiting the West Bank’s mineral resources for its own benefit, an Israeli human rights group charged in a court petition Monday. In the petition filed to Israel’s Supreme Court, the Yesh Din group charges that 75 percent of the rock and gravel removed from 11…