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Palestinian youth throw stones near Ofer Military Prison [illustrative], May 15, 2012 (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Throwing stones, starting fires: Shaked’s first bill as justice minister

A draft law sponsored by Ayelet Shaked would dramatically lower the bar for convicting Palestinians in Jerusalem for throwing stones, and set a penalty of 10 years in prison. The law’s application to West Bank settlers is unlikely. A key government committee on Sunday passed a bill that would make it much easier to convict…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland June 1, 2015

Screenshot of an Israeli settler and Palestinian youth throwing stones at each other. (B'Tselem)

WATCH: Israeli police let stone-throwing settlers walk away

Israeli soldiers don’t arrest settlers. We know that. But what about Israeli police? A couple of Jewish Israeli settlers were driving in the Israeli-controlled section of Hebron last week — where Palestinians live but only Israelis can drive — when some Palestinian youths threw stones at them, according to human rights organization B’Tselem. The two…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man December 9, 2014