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Residents of Masafer Yatta load their belongings onto trucks during the expulsion of 1999. (Nasrin Elian/B'Tselem)

The photos that once helped save Masafer Yatta from expulsion

In 1999, images of Palestinian lives being upended generated enough pressure to enable families to return home. Now, they live in fear of the next expulsion.

By Basil Adra March 21, 2023

Settlers, under the guise of Israeli security forces, hold a Tisha B'av prayer service in the middle of the Palestinian village of A-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills, August 7, 2022. (Omri Eran-Vardi)

Why did the army shut down a Palestinian village? So settlers could pray in it

Israeli soldiers blocked all movement into and out of A-Tuwani except for settlers, while forcing Palestinian residents into their homes at gunpoint.

By Ali Awad August 17, 2022

Rachel Beitarie, Executive Director of the left-wing Israeli NGO Zochrot, sits in front of the Jaffa Clock Tower. Around 95% of Jaffa's Palestinian population fled or were expelled during the Nakba. (Oren Ziv)

The Israeli left has broken the Nakba taboo. Will the right of return be next?

The past year has seen many left-wing Israeli groups looking beyond the occupation to confront the legacies of 1948, but they remain divided over redressing the exile of Palestinian refugees through return.

By Ben Reiff June 23, 2022

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The German passports of Ibrahim al Kilani and four of his children, seen in their home in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, September 18, 2014. Ibrahim was killed together with his wife Taghrid and their five children in an Israeli attack on July 21, 2014, targetting the building where they took refuge in Gaza City. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

Israel wiped out a Palestinian-German family. Germany refuses to investigate

Germany refuses to probe Israel's killing of seven members of the Kilani family in the 2014 Gaza war, despite five of them having their German citizenship.

By Hebh Jamal June 22, 2022

Muna Aman, who lost her husband and three daughters to an Israeli air strike. (B'Tselem)

‘It’s a nightmare I can’t shake’: The lives robbed by Israel’s Gaza assault

In a new B'Tselem report, Palestinians recount how their loved ones were killed by Israel's bombing campaign in May. Here are four of their testimonies.

By Orly Noy October 21, 2021

+972 and Local Call journalist Basil al-Adraa.

Israel’s top news show falsely accuses +972 writer of framing settlers for arson

Channel 12 claims Basil al-Adraa set a structure on fire during a settler pogrom on a Palestinian village. The evidence shows absolutely nothing of the sort.

By Oren Ziv October 7, 2021

Nachshon Battalion soldiers watch over a Palestinian detainee during an operation of arresting suspects in the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Dec. 8, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90. )

Why Shin Bet torturers don’t have to worry about punishment

By clearing the Shin Bet for the brutal interrogation of a Palestinian detainee, the attorney general played his part in masking Israel's approval of torture.

By Yael Stein February 2, 2021

A man wears a face mask and reads newspaper in downtown Jerusalem on Nov. 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Why did Israel’s Hebrew media ignore B’Tselem’s apartheid statement?

While B'Tselem's declaration of Israel as an apartheid state received major coverage across the world, Israel's Hebrew media was almost entirely silent.

By Oren Persico and The Seventh Eye January 14, 2021

Israeli troops confiscate a vegetables vendor as they guard construction work by a main road south of Hebron in the West Bank on December 16, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Why B’Tselem is calling Israel an apartheid regime, from the river to the sea

One of Israel's top human rights groups recognizes the occupation cannot be viewed in isolation from the goal of Jewish supremacy inside the Green Line.

By Orly Noy January 12, 2021

Hunderds attend a memorial ceremony for Eritrean asylum seeker Haftom Zarhum in southern Tel Aviv, October 21 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

One lynching tells the story of Israel’s racial pyramid

The acquittal of the two Israelis in the lynching of an Eritrean asylum seeker reveals just how deeply white supremacism is entrenched in Israel's political establishment.

By Orly Noy July 21, 2020

An Israeli attack on a U.N. school in Beit Lahiya using white phosphorus, Gaza, January 17, 2009. (Muhammad al-Baba)

To understand the violence of Israel’s occupation, know these 30 stories

Violence and whitewashing are the double helix of the occupation's DNA. Here are 30 stories of Palestinians killed or harmed by its brutality, collected by B'Tselem over three decades. And they’re just the tip of the iceberg.

By Hagai El-Ad December 10, 2019

A Palestinian woman seen after after crossing the a fence that had been damaged by demonstrators during the protest near the Gaza-Israel border fence, Gaza Strip, September 28, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.org)

Israel killed 222 Gaza protestors since 2018. Only one soldier has been indicted

As Othman Hiles began climbing the Gaza fence, an Israeli soldier opened fire and killed the unarmed boy. The soldier’s sentence? Community service.

By Eyal Sagiv November 6, 2019

Palestinians evacuate a protester during a Great Return March protest near the Gaza fence, east of Gaza City, November 2, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.org)

Israeli army knew it was unnecessarily killing Gaza protesters in real time

The Israeli army admits that it secretly changed its policy once it realized that shooting unarmed protesters in the leg was lethal. Rights group says the revelation is an admission that Israel was killing protesters without any justification. The Israeli military reportedly changed open-fire regulations for its snipers deployed along the Israel-Gaza fence after it…

By Edo Konrad July 24, 2019