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Israelis rally in defense of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at Habima Square, Tel Aviv, March 27, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

The glorious legacy of Israel’s so-called ‘guardian of democracy’

The government’s efforts to oust the AG must be resisted. But even by her own admission, she has proudly signed off on Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

By Orly Noy and Amos Brison March 28, 2025

Einav Zangauker crawls under the barbed wire barrier near the border fence with Gaza, protesting the resumption of Israel's war, March 18, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

Hostage families left ‘helpless’ after Israel shatters ceasefire

Despite intensifying protests against the resumption of the war, the Israeli government isn't listening — and Trump appears to have lost interest.

By Amos Brison and Oren Ziv March 21, 2025

Fire and smoke rises during Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, October 9, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s unbridled war on Gaza’s underground

Unable to pinpoint Hamas commanders in Gaza’s tunnels, the Israeli army decimated entire residential blocks with bunker-buster bombs to crush the passages below and flood them with lethal fumes, an investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham February 6, 2025

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ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan sworn in at the seat of the International Criminal Court, 16 June 2021. (ICC-CPI)

Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed

Top Israeli government and security officials have overseen a nine-year surveillance operation targeting the ICC and Palestinian rights groups to try to thwart a war crimes probe, a joint investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham and Meron Rapoport May 28, 2024

A high school principal arranges her classroom for the reopening of the school in Jerusalem, February 10 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teachers or terrorists? Far-right MKs want the Shin Bet to police schools

A bill authorizing Israel's security service to hire and fire teachers, a policy long carried out in Arab schools, is so extreme that even the Shin Bet opposes it.

By Gil Gertel July 26, 2023

Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet intelligence services, speaks at the annual Cyber Week conference, Tel Aviv University, June 27, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

When Israel’s Shin Bet chief embraces fake news

Ronen Bar, the head of Israel's domestic intelligence, spread disinformation in order to portray Palestinians as terrorists and Jews as innocents.

By Meron Rapoport and Oren Ziv July 2, 2023

Members of the Palestinian community protest against the violence in their community, outside the Knesset, May 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Why Israeli police aren’t the solution to Palestinian crime

The fixation on policing has funneled us into a debate that avoids the real roots of the crisis of gun violence among Palestinian citizens of Israel.

By Amjad Iraqi June 18, 2023

Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, head of the European Union’s mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, visits Huwara in the occupied West Bank following the settler pogrom in the town earlier in the week, March 3, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

How not to show solidarity with the families of Huwara

Thousands donated to a crowdfunder set up by an Israeli politician. But its militaristic framing and implementation are likely to do more harm than good.

By Orly Noy March 3, 2023

Abdul Mohsen Shalaldeh, Palestinian journalist. (Courtesy)

‘I asked if he broke into my home to stop me from being a journalist’

Israeli forces arrested Abdul Mohsen Shalaldeh in his house at night, frightening his family, before interrogating him about his reporting.

By Basel Adra February 5, 2023

Israeli police arrest Palestinian citizens as armed settlers and police forces patrol the city of Lod/Lyd, May 13, 2021. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

How Akka’s Palestinians fought back against Israel’s mass arrest campaign

Israeli police launched a repressive operation against Palestinian citizens following last year's violence in 'mixed cities.' Abandoned by local leaders, activists built their own initiatives to support detainees and their families.

By Vera Sajrawi November 28, 2022

Al-Haq's executive director Shawan Jabarin, next to Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, speaks to the media after the Israeli army raided the offices of several Palestinian NGOs, Ramallah, the West Bank, August 18, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

‘You will pay the price’: Shin Bet threatens Palestinian NGO directors

Undeterred by foreign criticism, Israel warns heads of two human rights groups of imprisonment and prosecution days after raiding their offices.

By Oren Ziv August 22, 2022

Amal Nakhleh shows a photo from his arrest, with his hands bound in handcuffs, Ramallah, occupied West Bank, May 24, 2022. (Yuval Abraham)

‘His childhood disappeared’: A Palestinian teen’s nightmare in Israeli detention

An Israeli military court ordered his release on medical grounds. Then the Shin Bet locked him up for another 16 months without charge.

By Yuval Abraham June 16, 2022

Amar Shafiq Abu Afifa. (Courtesy of the Abu Afifa family)

‘We were like brothers’: Refugee camp reels after army shoots Palestinian on hike

Amar Shafiq Abu Afifa was out strolling when Israeli soldiers gave chase and shot him in the head, adding to a grim toll suffered by al-Arroub refugee camp.

By Yuval Abraham March 10, 2022