collective punishment

Israeli soldiers take position during protests in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus on February 1, 2019. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israeli soldiers critically wound Palestinian child in Qaddum protests

Israeli soldiers fire live ammunition at anti-occupation protesters in Kufr Qaddum, critically wounding a 10-year-old child. By +972 Magazine Staff A 10-year-old Palestinian child is in critical condition after Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at an anti-occupation protest in Kufr Qaddum on Friday. Abdul Rahman Yaser Shtewi was shot in the head with a live…

By +972 Magazine July 12, 2019

Former President of Israel's Supreme Court Aharon Barak. (פרס א.מ.ת/CC BY-SA 3.0)

The man who helped build Israel’s legal infrastructure of oppression

Aharon Barak says he is concerned about Israeli democracy, but he bears responsibility for no small part of where the country is today. By Hagai El-Ad Former Chief Justice Aharon Barak is completely at peace with his ruling on targeted assassinations. On a recent episode of an Israeli investigative TV program, he went so far…

By +972 Magazine July 4, 2019

A Palestinian worker waits to cross Qalandiya checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and East Jerusalem, during the early hours of February 25, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Forget BDS: Denied entry to Israel, just because of a last name

Over the past two years, the Israeli army has revoked Palestinian workers’ permits to enter Israel simply because they share a last name with someone who carried out a violent attack against Israelis. The move has already dealt a severe blow to over 2,000 workers in the West Bank, many of whom have been working inside Israel…

By Social TV September 26, 2018

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A truck is seen at the Israeli army controlled Kerem Shalom crossing, the only commercial crossing where goods can enter and exit Gaza, March 22, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

The Gaza siege isn’t about security. It’s collective punishment, pure and simple

Israel shut down Gaza’s ability to conduct trade because of flaming balloons and kites that Palestinians have been floating over the border. There is no security justification, just collective punishment. Israeli authorities often claim that the siege on Gaza is about security. Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups must not be allowed to import weapons…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 10, 2018

Palestinian workers squeeze themselves to pass through the Israeli checkpoint of Bethlehem while heading to their work in Israeli cities, Bethlehem, West Bank, March 19, 2017. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

Shin Bet: Lose your job if your kid throws stones

Israel’s security service publishes notices in the Palestinian village of Beit Omar threatening to revoke work permits from families whose children are suspected of stone throwing. By Yael Marom Residents of the Palestinian village Beit Omar in the West Bank discovered last week that the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, had posted threatening notices on their…

By +972 Magazine January 4, 2018

Palestinians from the village of Beita hold Friday prayers at an Israeli military roadblock in protest of the collective punishment, September 23, 2016. (Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Palestinians hold pray-in to protest road closures

Palestinian residents of a village cut off by Israeli military closures hold prayer services at the roadblock to protest. Photos and text : Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills Tens of Palestinian residents of the village of Betia, south of Nablus, moved their Friday noon prayer from mosques to in front of Israeli dirt mounds that block…

By Activestills September 25, 2016

Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian man following a house raid in the West Bank city of Hebron September 20, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

A ‘wave of violence’ that never actually ends

When the Israeli media talks about the latest ‘wave of violence,’ it leaves out the five unarmed Palestinians who were shot to death by soldiers and police officers in the past few months. The newspaper headlines over the past few days leave no room for doubt regarding what has been happening here lately. “Terror returns,”…

By Haggai Matar September 20, 2016

And Israel border policeman outside the Abu Khdeir home in Shuafat, East Jerusalem Sept. 7, 2014 (Photo: Tamar Fleishman)

Yes, Israel does differentiate between Jewish and Palestinian terror

When Palestinians demand their attackers receive the same punishments as those who target Jews, the pretense of equal treatment before the law slips away. Some of Israel’s most hardline politicians are fond of saying that they don’t differentiate between terror attacks perpetrated by Jews and Palestinians. In the wake of the Duma arson that killed three…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland September 14, 2016

PHOTOS: Israeli army blocks main roads to Palestinian villages

Photos and reporting by Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org The Israeli army has blocked off with with concrete cubes, boulders and dirt seven main access roads to Palestinian villages in the Nablus area of the West Bank in recent days. The roadblocks unmanned, and entirely block Palestinian residents from using their vehicles on the main roads leading in and out of their…

By Activestills September 6, 2016

Israeli security forces demolish a Palestinian family’s home in a-Tur, April 24, 2013. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Home demolitions are organized state violence

Over the last decade, Israel has demolished over 1,100 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, leaving homeless more than 5,199 people, including at least 2,602 minors. The extensive demolitions are part of a broader Israeli policy of forced transfer. The following speech was delivered at a conference on home demolitions held at the Knesset on…

By +972 Magazine July 28, 2016

Crane lifts a Palestinian car over an Israeli army barricade in the southern West Bank. (Screenshot: City of Hebron Facebook page)

A creative Palestinian answer to Israeli checkpoints

The Israeli army has placed barricades at the entrances to Palestinian villages and towns in recent weeks. One crane operator figured out a way to help out stranded motorists. The Israel army has been utilizing collective punishment against entire Palestinian cities and villages in recent months as a response to a wave of attacks against…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 22, 2016

Palestinian women enter an Israeli military checkpoint on their way to Al-Aqsa Mosque for prayers on the first Friday of Ramadan, June 10, 2016. Men and women over the age of 45 were allowed to visit the mosque but Israeli authorities suspended some 83,000 entry permits issued for the Muslim holiday in response to a shooting attack in Tel Aviv. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Why Israel can’t kick its addiction to collective punishment

Israel’s revocation of permits and closure of Yatta this week reflect its need to keep the Palestinian issue at bay by controlling and threatening their people for every action of a few. A Palestinian family from Nablus was supposed to visit their relatives in an Arab town in Israel for Ramadan later this month. They…

By Amjad Iraqi June 11, 2016

Palestinians protest against the Israeli military's closure of ‪‎Qabatiya‬, near Jenin, February 6, 2016. (photo: Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Three days under military closure in Qabatiya

West Bank town put under closure following last week’s deadly attack on Israeli Border Police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City. Photos and text by: Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills.org After three days of strict military closure, the Israeli army lifted its blockade Saturday evening on the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank. The blockade…

By Activestills February 7, 2016