Israeli Human Rights Group Highlights How Israel Makes Fishing in Gaza Deadly

As is the reality with most elements of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, the greatest challenge in Gaza’s fishing industry is not the weather, or fluctuations in the market – it’s simply living to fish another day.

Kathryn Shihadah
By Kathryn Shihadah
Gaza Fisherman Feature photo

The Gaza Strip, just six miles wide, boasts a twenty-five-mile coastline on the Mediterranean Sea. Fishing is a natural industry in such a location and as recently as 2000, was a lucrative business for ten thousand Gazans. Today, only about 3,700 remain in the fishing trade – and about ninety-five percent of these live below the poverty line, with

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Israeli NGO: Israeli Soldiers, Settlers Conducting “Joint Assaults” on Palestinian Village

The rise in recent attacks involving cooperation between settlers and IDF soldiers seems to be a prelude to Israel’s efforts to formally annex the entire West Bank.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Israel Palestinians Settlers

TEL AVIV -- Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has provided evidence showing Israeli soldiers joining settlers in a series of attacks targeting the Palestinian village of ‘Urif, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The village, home to around 3,600 Palestinians, has been a target of extremist settlers for years given its close proximity

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Video: IDF Soldiers Block Road, Shoot Unarmed Protesters, Celebrate on Camera

As the video’s description notes, these Israeli soldiers casually discussing how to shoot a man who is trying to clear road access to his home is “part of the discordant soundtrack accompanying 51 years of occupation.”

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
An Israeli soldier walks past tanks during training in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – Israeli human rights group B’Tselem released a video on Tuesday that shows an Israeli soldier celebrating and shouting “that son of a bitch” after shooting an unarmed Palestinian protester with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the town of Madama in Palestine’s West Bank. The video, taken on April 13, also shows soldiers of the

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“Sorry Commander, I Cannot Shoot:” Israeli Human-Right Group Takes Aim at Soldiers Taking Aim at Gaza Demonstrators

Israeli human-rights group B’Tselem has launched a campaign titled “Sorry Commander, I Cannot Shoot” in preparation for the march, calling on Israeli troops – most of whom are conscripts – to refuse orders to shoot unarmed demonstrators.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Protesters wave Palestinians flags in front of Israeli solders on Gaza's border with Israel, east of Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. A leading Israel human rights group urged Israeli forces in a rare step Wednesday to disobey open-fire orders unless Gaza protesters pose an imminent threat to soldiers' lives. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

GAZA -- Tens of thousands of residents in the besieged Gaza Strip plan on returning to the Israeli-controlled border Friday in defiance of menacing promises from Tel Aviv to use massive and disproportionate force. The event will occur exactly one week after the Israelis massacred 17 unarmed demonstrators with live ammunition on Palestinian Land

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New Report Claims Israel Failed to ‘Reform’ System of Military Detention for Minors

A report by B’Tselem concludes, “changes Israel made have had no more than a negligible impact on minors’ rights”, and seem to have had “far more to do with improved appearances than with what happens in actual practice”.

Middle East Monitor
By Middle East Monitor
Israeli border police check Palestinian's identification cards at a checkpoint in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015.Palestinian right's groups are calling for people to remember the longstanding occupation that has again sparked recent violence. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A new report by respected Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem has demolished claims made by Israeli authorities that significant ‘reforms’ have been made to the system of military detention and prosecution experienced by Palestinian children. The report, ‘Minors in Jeopardy: Violation of the Rights of Palestinian Minors by Israel’s Military Courts’,

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US State Dept Defends Israeli NGO’s Targeted By Netanyahu

Netanyahu has made a concerted effort to isolate the NGOs from the international community, condemning any involvement the groups have with the United Nations.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
An Israeli border policeman detains a protester during a weekly demonstration against Israel's apartheid wall in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015.

Under intense attack from the far-right Netanyahu government, Israel’s anti-occupation NGOs B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence got support from an unlikely source today: the Trump Administration, whose State Department defended the groups’ rights to express viewpoints contrary to the current government’s, saying it is “vital to

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