From Occupied Palestine

42 Palestinians and 3 Israelis killed in June
B'TSELEM, 2 July 2006

B'Tselem's Web site today published the fatality figures for June 2006 in the Occupied Territories and Israel.

Forty-two Palestinians, six of them minors, were killed by Israeli armed forces. Twenty-four of the fatalities did not participate in the hostilities, but were bystanders who were killed in attacks by Israel 's air force. The figures do not include the seven members of the Ghaliya family, the cause of whose deaths B'Tselem can not determine at this time.

Israeli army continues use of Palestinians as human shields
JON ELMER
The NewStandard, 7 September 2005

Ramallah -- In direct violation of both domestic and international law, the Israeli military continues to use Palestinian civilians as human shields to protect soldiers during military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to a report in the Israeli daily Ha'aretz.

IDF incursion into the Rafah Refugee Camp – Special Edition
B'TSELEM
18 May 2004

IDF forces launched an incursion into the Rafah Refugee Camp early this morning. Israeli officials describe the incursion as the largest military operation since Operation Defensive Shield in the Spring of 2002.

Throughout the day B'Tselem has received reports of severe harm to the civilian population, including deaths, injury to medical teams, obstruction of medical care, house demolitions, and damage to infrastructure including roads, water and electricity.

Sarra checkpoint: A week of severe abuse
B'TSELEM
Press release, 4 January 2004

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Today B'Tselem released a report describing a series of cases of severe abuse by IDF soldiers over the past week at the Sarra checkpoint, next to Nablus.

B'Tselem's checkpoint monitors took testimonies from ten Palestinians who were assaulted between December 27-31 by soldiers serving at the checkpoint. The abuse included a mock execution, severe beatings and tying up the victims. The abuse occurred on a regular basis.

New apartheid orders: 11,400 Palestinians need permits to live in their homes
B'TSELEM
Report, 21 November 2003

In early October 2003, the OC Central Command ordered the area between the separation barrier in the northern section of the West Bank (Stage 1) and the Green Line a closed military area for an indefinite period of time.

This area, known as the "seam area," covers a total of 96,000 dunams [4 dunams = 1 acre], or 1.7 percent of the West Bank. The area includes twelve Palestinian villages, containing 11,400 residents, and ten settlements, in which 22,000 people live.

Human Rights in the Occupied Territories:
Interview with B'Tselem's Executive Director Jessica Montell
JESSICA MONTELL and JON ELMER
FromOcccupiedPalestine.org, 28 September 2003

Jon Elmer, FromOccupiedPalestine.org: Three Jewish settlers from the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin were convicted on [17 September] of plotting to bomb a Palestinian girls school in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of At-Tur, as well as a hospital. Judges said that scores of school children would have been slaughtered if the attack had not been foiled. Back in April a group calling itself Revenge of the Infants hurled grenades into a high school in Jenin, injuring 29. Can you discuss the threat of Jewish settler terrorism?

The Water Crisis in the Occupied Territories
B'TSELEM

Israel's citizens, like those of developed countries worldwide, benefit year-round from unlimited running water to meet their household needs. On the other hand, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians suffer from a severe water shortage throughout the summer.

This shortage of water affects every function that water plays in human life: drinking, bathing, cleaning, and watering of crops and animals.

Video: B'Tselem director on Palestinian human rights
JESSICA MONTELL
oneworld.tv

B'Tselem director Jessica Montell explains how some Israelis say Palestinians are the enemy and have launched the war, so don’t deserve human rights. Others say human rights are a luxury you cannot afford in war. But the fact that there are basic rules which govern the conduct of hostilities is a message not well received by the Israeli public. watch clip

Israel imposes 'racist' marriage law
JUSTIN HUGGLER
Independent, 1 August 2003

Israel's Parliament has passed a law preventing Palestinians who marry Israelis from living in Israel. The move was denounced by human rights organisations as racist, undemocratic and discriminatory.

Under the new law, rushed through yesterday, Palestinians alone will be excluded from obtaining citizenship or residency. Anyone else who marries an Israeli will be entitled to Israeli citizenship.

Video: B'Tselem director on Israel's closure policy
JESSICA MONTELL
oneworld.net

B'Tselem director Jessica Montell describing one of the first casualties of Israel's closure policy early in the intifada, when the father of an 11-year old Palestinian girl was not allowed to pass through the roadblock to get his daughter, suffering from appendicitis, to the hospital.