Violations Highlights

Last Friday, 23 December 2016, the residents of Kafr Qadum held their weekly protest – held regularly since July 2011 – demanding that the road from their village to the city of Nablus be reopened. Since the military blocked the …

Dozens of activists from the movement of Returners To Temple Mount protested near al-Aqsa mosque demanding that Israeli sovereignty be applied upon the whole holy site. Israeli police tried to evacuate them but the changed their path into the Western …

Amira Hass-Haaretz Brig. Gen. (res.) Ilan Malka was recently appointed deputy chief commissioner of the Israel Prison Service and then promoted to commissioner (a rank parallel to major general in the Israel Defense Forces). As someone who has been exonerated …

Since 2014, Israel has demolished 18 times as many structures as it permitted the Palestinians to build in Area C of the West Bank, where Israel has both civilian and military control, Civil Administration data show. The data also show …

The Jerusalem District Zoning Committee is scheduled to approve the construction of 5,600 housing units in Gilo, Ramat Shlomo, and Givat Hamatos neighborhoods beyond the Green Line • “We remain unfazed by the U.N. vote,” city official says. The Jerusalem …

B’Tselem has carried out a survey to map the processes underway in Batan al-Hawa, a neighborhood currently undergoing the most extensive dispossession proceedings in East Jerusalem in recent years. Nine of the roughly 50 parcels in the neighborhood have already …

Rabbi Elad Dokow of the Technion issued a prohibition against Jewish students entering the university’s student union due to the Christmas tree that has been put up in the building. “The Christmas tree is a religious symbol – not Christian, …

A Defense Ministry proposal to move a checkpoint in southern Jerusalem to a different location would cut off West Bank Palestinians from a spring which they use regularly to provide water to their livestock. The ministry is considering the move …

The Batan al-Hawa neighborhood, in the heart of Silwan, is the setting for the most extensive expulsion in recent years in East Jerusalem. To date, eviction claims have been filed against 81 Palestinian families that have been living in Batan …

At 2:00 A.M. on Thursday, 24 November 2016, soldiers came to the home of the Abu Munshar family in Jabal a-Rahma, a neighborhood overlooking the Old City of Hebron. The soldiers woke the family and informed them they had a …