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A sit-in protest in Hebron in front of the headquarters of the International Red Cross Committee against the arrest of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and the targeting of medical personnel in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 9, 2025. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer

Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.

By Shatha Yaish July 22, 2025

Golani Brigade soldiers during a nighttime operation in a West Bank village, August 29, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

The Israeli army promised to avoid arresting kids at night. It never even tried

Despite committing to new procedures to reduce the practice, the army is still using night arrests as a default against Palestinian children, says rights group.

By Oren Ziv and Basel Adra January 17, 2023

Members of Palestinian factions in Gaza perform a scene to represent the reality of the lives of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, April 9, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Israeli prison ban on phone calls risks ‘breaking spirits’ of Palestinian minors

Israel claims incarcerated Palestinian children pose a threat to national security just like adults — and therefore can't contact their families.

By Oren Ziv September 23, 2020

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Palestinians wait at the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel on July 13, 2014. (Flash90)

‘Gaza is a one-way ticket’: How Israel’s relocation policy is separating Palestinian communities

Israel is systemically routing Palestinian movement in one direction — from the West Bank to Gaza. Families and advocates say the silent transfer is splintering Palestinian society.

By Henriette Chacar June 30, 2020

Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers detain a blindfolded Palestinian child. (Wagdi Ashtiyeh/Flash90)

Top court throws out case demanding Palestinian kids be allowed to call parents from prison

The Israeli Supreme Court refuses to hear arguments in a case about whether Palestinian minors imprisoned by Israel should be allowed to speak to their families on the phone. Israel’s High Court of Justice refused to hear a petition by an Israeli human rights organization demanding that Palestinian minors held in Israeli prisons be allowed…

By Edo Konrad July 3, 2019

A prisoner seen making a phone call in Gilboa Prison, northern Israel, February 28, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Should Palestinian children be able to call parents from prison? Israeli court will decide

Palestinian children in Israeli jails classified as ‘security prisoners’ are denied the right to speak to or see their families, sometimes for months on end. Israel’s top court will hear arguments about whether Palestinian children held in Israeli prisoners should be allowed to call their parents on the phone. Palestinian minors classified by Israel as…

By Edo Konrad June 30, 2019

Palestinian journalist Mustafa al-Haruf seen at a Jerusalem Court following his arrest for supposed incitement on Facebook. He was released the following day and the case was closed, December 2017.

Israel trying to deport stateless Palestinian journalist from Jerusalem

Mustafa al-Haruf has spent the last 20 years living in East Jerusalem, where he has a wife, daughter, and works as a photographer. Now Israel wants to deport him to Jordan, where he has no family or legal status. Mustafa al-Haruf, a stateless Palestinian journalist who lives and works in Jerusalem, has been in an…

By Oren Ziv February 27, 2019

An electric cart provides transportation through the 900-meter caged terminal spanning the restricted access zone at the Erez border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, July 2, 2012. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler)

Israel deports 14-year-old girl to Gaza — without telling her parents

Ghada had spent her entire life in the West Bank, yet somehow found herself deported to the Gaza Strip after being arrested by Border Police officers. Israeli authorities deported a 14-year-old epileptic Palestinian girl from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip earlier this month, without notifying her parents, and despite the fact that she…

By Edo Konrad January 31, 2018

Israeli Border Police detain a Palestinian youth during clashes at Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, September 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Resource: The systematic abuse of Palestinian teens in East Jerusalem

Affidavits collected from 60 Palestinian teenagers reveal how they are pulled out of bed in the middle of the night, handcuffed, interrogated in violation of their rights, and kept in custody under harsh conditions, sometimes for extended periods of time by Israeli authorities. A new report by Israeli human rights groups HaMoked and B’Tselem reveals the broad, systemic…

By +972 Resources October 25, 2017

A Palestinian youth, arrested and blindfolded by Israeli soldiers during the closure on Hebron. (photo: Activestills)

Torture is a gruesome symptom of military occupation

Israel’s use of torture is part and parcel of the occupation, and an inseparable part of maintaining the military occupation of Palestinian territories and Jewish hegemony in those lands. A new report about torture at the Israeli Shin Bet facility Shikma is, rightfully, making headlines. The details are horrendous. The report, penned by HaMoked and B’Tselem, is also…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat February 27, 2016

Palestinian Authority police attempt to prevent youth in Aida Refugee Camp from clashing with Israeli forces, Bethlehem, West Bank, September 27, 2013. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

How Israel outsources torture to its Palestinian subcontractor

When the Palestinian Authority does Israel’s dirty work, is it any surprise that so many Palestinians no longer differentiate between the two? By Hagar Shezaf As the latest wave of violence erupted, I drove to cover a demonstration in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah. During one of my interviews, a 20-year-old…

By +972 Magazine February 25, 2016

Im Tirzu video showing Hagai Elad

WATCH: Incitement against the Israeli Left just got a lot scarier

Four Israelis who work for leading human rights organizations woke up to a new, frightening reality after a video accused each one of them of being a foreign agent working to defend Palestinian terrorists. A new video entitled “Foreign Agents – Revealed!” was released on Tuesday by Im Tirtzu, a neo-Mccarthyite, extreme right-wing group notorious…

By Mairav Zonszein December 15, 2015

Family members of Abdel Rahman Al-Shaludi, a Palestinian who drove his car into passengers at a rail station causing the death of two Israelis last month in Jerusalem, inspect his destroyed apartment in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, November, 19, 2014. The previous night, Israeli army and police destroyed the apartment of Al-Shaludi, as the Israeli government ordered the demolition of homes of Palestinians who carry out attacks against Israelis. (photo: Activestills.org)

Rights groups to Israel’s top court: Home demolitions are collective punishment

Within the legal community, Israel’s High Court and the state attorneys are isolated and alone in thinking that home demolitions are an acceptable practice, the petitioners argue. No date is set for a decision in the case. Demolishing the homes of suspected — or convicted — Palestinian terrorists amounts to collective punishment that in some…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man December 3, 2014