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‘Change doesn’t come from the courthouses alone’
Addameer director Sahar Francis talks about the pervasiveness of incarceration in Palestinian society, how she and her organization have been targeted by Israeli forces for their work, and what it means if the international community can’t hold Israel accountable for the occupation. There is one legal case Sahar Francis says she’ll never forget. It was…
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Henriette Chacar
February 21, 2019
In Khan al-Ahmar, I found renewed hope for resisting the occupation
Over the last four months I have spent most of my time in Khan al-Ahmar, watching young Palestinians resist, day after day, the Israeli authorities’ attempts to demolish the village. On Saturday night, their struggle finally bore fruit. Ever since Israel’s High Court of Justice gave its stamp of approval for the Israeli army to demolish Khan…
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Oren Ziv
October 21, 2018
Why are no Israeli officials refusing to meet with Duterte?
Israel has reached a moral low point as it hosts the Philippines’ mass-murdering president and sells arms to his genocidal regime. By Eitay Mack Months after Israel marked 70 years since its founding, the country is staging one of its lowest points yet. Israel is holding its citizens and institutions in contempt this week, by…
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September 4, 2018
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Israel’s High Court just made an ICC investigation more likely
The court’s rejection of a lawsuit challenging the shooting of protesters in Gaza is a reminder that the Israeli legal system simply isn’t set up to investigate the policy makers and policies that result in alleged war crimes. Israel’s High Court of Justice may have just inadvertently increased the possibility that senior Israeli officials might…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
May 27, 2018
‘We demand international protection for journalists in Gaza’
The shooting death of photographer Yasser Murtaja by Israeli snipers has left no doubt among Gaza’s journalists that they are being targeted. Now they are demanding solidarity from Israeli journalists on the other side of the border. By Meron Rapoport Last Friday was a difficult one for journalists in Gaza. Journalist Yasser Murtaja was shot and…
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April 10, 2018
Hagai El-Ad talks war crimes, forced displacement, and int’l pressure
B’Tselem’s executive director speaks to +972 Magazine about his organization’s decision to describe the demolition and displacement of Palestinian villages as ‘war crimes,’ and the role of international pressure in changing Israeli policy in the West Bank. By Joshua Leifer and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man The international diplomatic and human rights community often couches its criticism…
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Joshua Leifer
February 6, 2018
The Israeli army is now justifying expulsion with feminism
Netanyahu vowed this week that Israel would not uproot any more Arab communities. He seemed to forget two Palestinian villages fighting for their existence at this very moment. On the way back from Susya, a small Palestinian hamlet in the south Hebron Hills, we pass by a major traffic jam caused by the 50th anniversary…
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Orly Noy
September 28, 2017
Five takeaways: What the UN Security Council resolution means
In a 14-0 vote and with the U.S. abstaining, the UN Security Council passes a resolution reaffirming the illegality of Israeli settlements. What does it all mean, and what comes next? The UN Security Council on Friday passed a resolution condemning Israeli settlements, reaffirming their illegality, calling on Israel to cease all settlement activity, and…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
December 23, 2016
Israel deems comatose Gaza man a security threat
Abed al-Karim Abu Haloub has been in a coma in Gaza for over 40 days, requiring treatment in the West Bank. Israel repeatedly refused to allow him to leave. Israeli authorities repeatedly refused to allow a Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment in the West Bank, denying his travel permit on security…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
November 24, 2016
How an IDF general whitewashed the killing of three innocent Palestinians
Maj. Gen. Uzi Dayan was trying to support a soldier charged with killing an unarmed Palestinian. Instead, he ended up confessing to a crime that could have severe repercussions at The Hague. By Yael Marom and John Brown* Late last week, Channel 2 news reported that three senior reserve officers — Maj. Gen. Uzi Dayan, Brig.…
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+972 Magazine
August 22, 2016
Who’s sending death threats to Palestinian advocates in The Hague?
In an interview with +972, the Hague representative of Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group, talks about the slew of threats she and her organization have received for months, and why she believes the Israeli government is behind them. In a small ceremony in The Hague on April 1, 2015, the Palestinian Authority officially signed…
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Amjad Iraqi
August 17, 2016
Leading Israeli rights group to stop cooperating with the IDF
The Israeli military justice system acts only to ‘cover up unlawful acts and protect perpetrators,’ B’Tselem says, citing 25 years of experience working with the military. Palestinian rights expert welcomes the move. Israel’s best known human rights organization, B’Tselem, has lost all faith in the Israeli military justice system and will stop cooperating with it on behalf…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
May 25, 2016
How to foil a human rights probe: Keep the investigator out
Makarim Wibisono resigns as UN special rapporteur to the occupied Palestinian territories — because Israel never allowed him to visit Palestine. The UN special rapporteur charged with monitoring and investigating Israeli human rights violations in the occupied territories resigned Monday in protest of Israel’s consistent refusal to give him access to said occupied territories. Refusing access…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
January 5, 2016
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