Violations Highlights

By Chaim Levinson Haaretz After many postponements, the West Bank outpost of Givat Asaf was about to be demolished in July 2012. The state had promised to demolish the outpost several months prior, following a petition to the High Court …

Baha Eldeen Samir Bader, 12, was killed by a bullet to his chest after Israeli soldiers raided Beit Liqya, southwest of Ramallah, on the evening of Thursday, October 16. Israeli soldiers bombarded the village with tear gas and ammunition. “Israeli …

Almost six months ago, in May 2014, B’Tselem cautioned that the number of Palestinians held by Israel in administrative detention was rising. In June and July 2014, over the course of Operation Brother’s Keeper, the military issued some 250 new …

A settler ran over two young girls near Senjil village, in the east of Ramallah city on 10/19/2014, which led to the death of the girl Inas Shawkat and wounding the second girl very seriously.

The human rights organization Yesh Din today published updated figures highlighting the failure of the Samaria & Judea District Police to investigate incidents in which olive trees and other fruit trees belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank are cut …

October 14, 2014 – Israeli settlers set fire to the mosque of Abu Baker al-Sedeiq in the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus. The settlers wrote racist slogans calling for “price tag” attacks and other slogans signed under the name …

Nablus – Monday, Octobrt 10, 2014 – Settlers destroyed an olive grove located to the south of Nablus city. Settlements file officer in the north of the West Bank, Ghassan Daghlas, said a number of settlers from the settlement of …

On 29 Sept. 2014, the Civil Administration destroyed the internal power grid of the Khirbet a-Twayel shepherding community in the Jordan Valley. Civil Administration representatives sawed down dozens of electricity poles and cut the wires. The community is one of …

On the morning of 10 August 2014, a soldier shot 10-year-old Palestinian boy Khalil ‘Anati in al-Fawwar Refugee Camp in the West Bank. The boy was rushed in his uncle’s car to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. An investigation …