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The family of Bassem Tamimi's gathers outside the Ofer Israeli Military Court, West Bank, April 10, 2011. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Resource: Presumed guilty from the get-go

Military courts have operated in the occupied territories since the Israeli occupation began in 1967. To date, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been brought before these courts. The following B’Tselem report focuses on one of the central aspects in the work of the military justice system: remand in custody pending end of proceedings. With the…

By +972 Resources June 23, 2015

Israeli soldiers take cover along the side of a home in the Gaza Strip during 2014’s Operation Protective Edge. (Courtesy of Breaking the Silence)

Testimonies: ‘This is How We Fought in Gaza’

Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli combat veterans who want to expose the Israeli public to the realities of the occupation, publishes a report compiling over 60 testimonies of soldiers and officers who served in 2014’s Gaza war, Operation Protective Edge. The testimonies in this collection close the yawning gaps between what the IDF…

By +972 Resources May 4, 2015

Israeli border police check the ID of a Palestinian man (File photo by Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

Resource: Two legal systems — discrimination under military occupation

One of the most prominent and disturbing characteristics of Israeli military rule in the West Bank is the creation and development of an official and institutionalized legal regime of two separate legal systems, on an ethnic-national basis. The long-standing residence of citizens of the State of Israel, the occupying power, in settlements at the heart…

By +972 Resources December 22, 2014

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An armed settler stands with IDF troops near Nabi Saleh [illustrative photo], 19.09.2011 (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Resource: Privatizating law enforcement in, around settlements

‘The Lawless Zone’ is a report by Yesh Din on the transfer of policing and security powers to the Civilian Security Coordinators (CSC) in Israel’s West Bank settlements and outposts. The report presents an analysis of the institution of the CSCs as an inherent aspect of the biased and chaotic state of Israeli law enforcement…

By +972 Resources September 19, 2014

Sodier arresting child in Beit Omar, 2010 (Anne Paq / Activestills)

Resource: Unlawful discrimination: Two boys, two laws

Since 1967, Israel has issued 1,700 military orders and between 750,000-800,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been prosecuted in Israeli military courts and imprisoned. Technically speaking, Israeli military law applies to all persons in the West Bank, whether they be Palestinian or Israeli, but in practice civilian law is applied to the settlers, whereas…

By +972 Resources September 29, 2013

Ruins of a Palestinian home in the Az-Zaitoun neighborhood of Gaza city, destroyed during an Israeli airstrike, November 23, 2012. (Photo by: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Resource: Over half of Palestinians killed in ‘Pillar of Defense’ were civilians

Human rights organization B’Tselem published a report reviewing harm to civilians in Operation Pillar of Defense. The report provides statistics on the numbers of Palestinians and Israelis killed over the course of the operation, which lasted from November 14 to 21, 2012. The report challenges the common perception in the Israeli public and media that…

By +972 Resources May 11, 2013

Ongoing construction work in the Pisgat Ze'ev settlement in East Jerusalem, as seen from the Anata neighborhood on August 29, 2012. Under international law, all of the new Jewish neighborhood established by Israel after 1967 are deemed to be illegal and supposedly to be "removed" as a prelude to a peace agreement. In the meantime, residents of Anata complain of having lost a lot of land and access to the hill on which this neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev is built, although they add that several local families have actually moved to the settlement in order to find themselves on the right side of the Separation Wall, and avoid having to go through a checkpoint several times a day. (photo: JC/Activestills.org)

Resource: EU Heads of Mission report on Israeli settlements

Prepared by the European Union heads of mission to the Palestinian Authority, the report is a strongly-worded and very critical of Israel’s settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The draft, obtained by +972 Magazine and published here in full, is to be presented to the EU’s Political Security Committee (PSC/COPPS). Among its recommendations…

By +972 Resources February 27, 2013