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Israeli troops take position around the Cave of the Patriarchs, also known as the Ibrahimi mosque, in the old city of Hebron, in the West Bank, on October 30, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

In Hebron, protecting Palestinians is not an Israeli soldier’s job

A viral video of a soldier helping a Palestinian during a settler attack symbolizes how Israelis would like to see their army. The reality is far from it.

By Ron Zaidel June 22, 2020

Amiram Ben-Uliel, who was charged with murder over the Duma arson attack in July 2015, arrives to hear his verdict at the Lod District Court, May 18, 2020. (Flash90)

Convicting Jewish terrorists is the exception that proves the rule

The conviction of a Jewish extremist does not erase the fact that Israel turns a blind eye to its systemic violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

By Ziv Stahl and Gilad Grossman May 20, 2020

Yacoub Rabi. (Nitzan Lotem)

Jewish terrorists killed his wife. Now he has a message for the world

Aisha Rabi was killed by settlers in the West Bank two years ago. Her husband Yacoub will commemorate her as part of a joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial ceremony.

By Orly Noy April 27, 2020

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Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian man as Israeli bulldozers operate on land near the West Bank city of Nablus, March 1, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israel’s coronavirus lockdown is blocking human rights work, but not abuses

Rights groups warn Israel's emergency directives are making it more difficult to monitor and protect Palestinian rights during the pandemic.

By Judith Sudilovsky March 31, 2020

Palestinian health workers disinfect Palestinian workers as they cross back from Israel into the West Bank at a checkpoint in Tarqumiya, March 27, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Even under pandemic, Israel can’t treat its subjects as equals

A country led by an ethnocentric, racist prime minister has come up against a universal threat that affects all people under its control.

By Hagai El-Ad March 30, 2020

President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu stop to talk with reporters on Monday, January 27, 2020, along the West Wing Colonnade of the White House, prior to their meeting in the Oval Office. (White House Photo/Joyce N. Boghosian)

For Trump, Palestine is just another ‘shithole country’

Were it not for his racism, the president could have taken inspiration from the Palestinian people's ability to survive Israeli oppression.

By Eitay Mack January 29, 2020

Israeli settlers seen celebrating Israeli Independence Day near the outpost of Havat Gilad, West Bank, May 9, 2019. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

The decade Israel erased the Green Line

For years, Israel's settlement enterprise was widely viewed as temporary and reversible. Today, after a decade of Netanyahu and three years of Trump, the West Bank has become part of the Israeli mainstream.

By Dror Etkes December 26, 2019

Illustrative photo of a masked Jewish settler with a slingshot in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, May 19, 2013. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

The settlers who beat me didn’t care that I am an observant Jew

The settlers of Yitzhar beat me with crowbars and threw a stone at my head that split open the skin. Then they set fire to the olive groves.

By Isaac Johnston October 24, 2019

Rabbi Moshe Yehudai is evacuated from the village of Burin during an olive harvest after being attacked by Israeli settlers from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar. (Rabbis for Human Rights)

Settlers attack olive harvesters, Israeli volunteers in West Bank village

Masked settlers uproot olive trees, set groves ablaze, and beat several Israeli volunteers with stones and metal rods in the West Bank village of Burin. Masked men from the settlement of Yitzhar wielding metal rods and stones attacked volunteers from Rabbis for Human Rights, a human rights organization based in Israel, while they were picking…

By Oren Ziv October 16, 2019

Israeli security forces assess the damage to a home in central Israel that was destroyed by a rocket fired overnight from Gaza, Mishmarot, March 25, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

This doesn’t need to happen: Another pre-election war on Gaza

We need leaders who can talk about ending the siege, about ending the occupation, about equality, freedom, and security as the only solution for both Israelis and Palestinians. By Haggai Matar and Oren Ziv The rocket fired from Gaza that destroyed a home and wounded seven people in central Israel Monday morning, took Israelis by…

By Haggai Matar March 25, 2019

Munir Suleiman, fro the Palestinian village of Urif, points the a bullet hole in his home, which was targeted by settlers. 'Sometimes they come down with the army, sometimes the army joins later, after the entire village comes out to defend itself.' (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

‘The entire world knows the settlers have declared war on us’

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians living near extremist settlements have been seeing a drastic increase in violence. Israeli authorities refuse to take responsibility, while the villagers are left to fend for themselves. By Rami Younis and Oren Ziv This past year was, by all accounts, a difficult one for Palestinians living near settlements in the West…

By Rami Younis March 17, 2019

Israeli soldiers escort and protect Israeli settlers who attacked Palestinian activists in Hebron, occupied West Bank, December 24, 2018. (Issa Amro)

Seven hospitalized in settler attack on Hebron activists

Israeli soldiers reportedly stand by during attack on the ‘Youth Against Settlements’ community center in the occupied city. Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinians who were attempting to rebuild part of a local youth center in the occupied city of Hebron over the weekend, sending seven of them to the hospital with minor injuries. On…

By Edo Konrad December 28, 2018

Israeli settlers demonstrate and block Road 60, where two Israeli soldiers were killed near the Givat Assaf outpost in the occupied West Bank, December 13, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Settlers attack Palestinian civilians following deadly shootings

After a string of shootings left three Israelis dead, hundreds of settlers block roads across the West Bank, harassing Palestinian drivers and damaging their vehicles. By Meron Rapoport Israeli settlers threw stones at and blocked Palestinian vehicles late last week, hours after a Palestinian gunman killed two soldiers outside a settlement outpost near Ramallah. Hundreds of settlers blocked roads across…

By +972 Magazine December 16, 2018