Violations Highlights

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 …

The Civil Administration has filed for objections plans for establishing a new settlement in the Jordan Valley, where thousands of Bedouins will be forced to relocate. The Civil Administration is advancing several such plans. The current plan was drawn up …

Today Yesh Din is releasing the report “The Lawless Zone” on the transfer of policing and security powers to the Civilian Security Coordinators (CSCs) in the settlements and outposts. This report presents an analysis of the institution of the CSCs …

Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank is advancing a plan to expel thousands of Bedouin from lands east of Jerusalem and forcibly relocate them to a new town in the Jordan Valley. Between late August and last week, the …

The Israeli High Court of Justice ruled today on two petitions submitted in 2010 and 2013 by Abdel Rahman Qassem through Yesh Din, demanding the evacuation of illegal construction from his land in Dura al-Qara and the cancelation of the …

September 14, 2014. Approximately half a million students began the school year in Gaza this morning. The school year was scheduled to commence three weeks ago, on August 24, but due to the hostilities, and because the schools subsequently continued …

In response to the MAG corps announcement detailing some of the investigations opened into “exceptional” cases during operation Protective Edge, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem stated that based on past experience, it isn’t holding out hope that this process will …

Israel launched Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip on 8 July 2014 and ended it, after a ceasefire was declared, on 26 August 2014. During the operation, Israel violated international humanitarian law in some cases, and many other cases …