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Thousands of homes destroyed in Gaza. Over 200 killed. Only one investigation
If Israeli officials had any inkling they would be held accountable, their decision to apply a lethal doctrine in Gaza would not have been made so readily.
By
Dan Owen
June 9, 2022
Why CNN is more fit than the Israeli army to probe Abu Akleh’s killing
Israel is trying to counter a CNN investigation into the killing of a Palestinian journalist with two main arguments — both of which are simply untrue.
By
Haggai Matar
May 25, 2022
The best way to avoid an ICC probe: Don’t commit war crimes
With every settlement and military operation, Israel has been paving its own road to The Hague.
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Avner Gvaryahu
February 15, 2021
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With no justice on the horizon for Gaza, what comes next?
A new report by B’Tselem concludes that the Israeli military’s investigations into its own alleged crimes are little more than a whitewash. So what comes next? Sometimes a seemingly dry bit of research can seem to rise to the level of literature, challenging the status quo in ways that, in the long run, only literature…
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Samer Badawi
September 23, 2016
Resource: The Whitewashing Procedure
The Israeli bodies responsible for investigating the events of Operation Protective Edge are engaged primarily in creating the false impression of a functioning system that ostensibly seeks to discover the truth. In the meantime, those actually responsible for violations are not even questioned, and the investigations have been confined to superficial inspections of a number…
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September 23, 2016
Two years after Gaza war, not a single war crime indictment
The Israeli military’s law enforcement system and its flawed investigative mechanisms appear primarily geared toward protecting the armed forces instead of civilians, thus allowing impunity to prevail. By Muna Haddad Two years after the Israeli military offensive on Gaza, dubbed “Operation Protective Edge,” more than half of the civilian structures destroyed during the war have yet…
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September 11, 2016
‘Every few minutes, one of them hit us with a rifle butt’
Three Palestinian teens speak about the abuse they say they endured in Israeli military custody after being arrested during a demonstration along the Gaza border. By Yael Marom Israeli military police are investigating the suspicion that over the course of three days, IDF soldiers abused three Palestinian teenagers who illegally crossed into Israel from the…
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May 13, 2016
When an Israeli assaults a Palestinian, justice is hard to come by
A story of assault in Hebron perfectly exemplifies how police investigations fail when the victim is Palestinian. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz More than five years ago, on July 16, 2010, a young Hebronite by the name of Muhammad Abd Al-Raouf Abdrazeq was attacked by two Israeli civilians without any reason. In his…
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January 9, 2016
An unsettling moment of justice under occupation
Did a Palestinian activist see justice only because the soldier who shot him was an Arab? In a rare piece of positive news, Haaretz reported Saturday that the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court decided that 155,000 shekels ($40,200) should be paid in compensation to Rateb Abu Rahmeh, a Palestinian activist and university lecturer from the West Bank…
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Amjad Iraqi
December 13, 2015
License to Kill: Why did the IDF shoot the Qawarik cousins 29 times?
Saleh and Muhammad head out to their agricultural land. A settler stops them and calls the army. Four soldiers arrive. One of them empties his magazine into the two. Three other soldiers claim they didn’t see anything. The IDF says that the cousins attacked the soldier, then retracts the claim. No one is brought to…
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May 19, 2015
Four years, one dead Palestinian and a closed investigation
What does an Israeli military investigation of the killing of a Palestinian look like? An utter waste of time. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz On Friday, January 16, 2009, stormy demonstrations took place throughout the West Bank, as Operation Cast Lead was in full force in Gaza. The Israeli media did not report the…
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January 16, 2015
How Israel increases its odds of international prosecution
When the criminal records of IDF war criminals are expunged, the government puts them in danger of being tried abroad. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Last week Yesh Din published a new report,”Lacuna: War Crimes in Israeli Law and Court Martial Rulings.” It deals with the way the military justice system handles offenses…
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October 14, 2013
The double game of IDF military investigations
The military prosecution produces an unseemly requirement in order to allow access to appeal files: a commitment that no one will file a civil suit against the state. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz In the last few days, the High Court of Justice leisurely reviewed a petition that Yesh Din, along with Hamoked:…
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June 18, 2013
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