B’Tselem

In the West Bank, a horror story

by Yousef Munayyer December 24, 2011

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and the Israeli state’s failure to adequately respond to it highlight an important aspect of the Israeli occupation’s Apartheid-like policies.

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Violating Palestinian Rights

by Stephen Lendman June 26, 2011

Over the most recent seven day period, 33 residential buildings were demolished in Jordan Valley Fasayil, al-Hadidiyeh, and Yarza communities, as well as southern Hebron Hills Khirbet Bir al-’Id. As a result, 238 Palestinians, including 129 minors, lost homes.

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Israel Is Going to the Dogs

by SR Editor June 15, 2011

Israel has followed in the footsteps of the United States, using dogs to terrify Palestinian workers trying to get into Israel to find jobs. Victims of the dog attacks are not security suspects, but rather day laborers. Are occupation soldiers using Palestinian workers as guinea pigs, trying out the dogs in preparation for use on the upcoming flotilla to Gaza?

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Killed by Israel Policy: Delayed Exit of a Toddler from Gaza Results in Death

by SR Editor October 21, 2010

She was not killed by a missile, or a suicide bomber, or any of the other dramatic ways children die in the Middle East. She was killed by an Israeli policy, that the people of Gaza are to be imprisoned as punishment for who the adults voted for. While many children have been killed by this policy, this case sounds particularly horrific.

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Obama’s cave-in to Israel: letter suggests US not honest broker

by Jonathan Cook October 6, 2010

According to the leak, Obama made a series of extraordinarily generous offers to Israel, many of them at the expense of the Palestinians, in return for a single minor concession from Netanyahu: a two-month extension of the partial freeze on settlement growth. The White House has denied that a letter was sent, but, according to the Israeli media, officials in Washington are privately incensed by Netanyahu’s rejection. According to Makovsky, in return for the 60-day settlement moratorium, the US promised to veto any UN Security Council proposal on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the next year, and committed to not seek any further extensions of the freeze.

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Reaping terror’s reward

by Stuart Littlewood September 28, 2010

Get in there first – that’s the secret If it wasn’t for the “war on terror” America and Israel wouldn’t be enjoying such military fun and games and reaping such fat rewards. Whole new industries are flourishing thanks to the considerable effort they’ve devoted to sowing the seeds of terror. The Institute of Terrorism Research [...]

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President Obama’s Ahistorical World

by Lawrence Davidson September 25, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On September 23, 2010 it was President Obama’s turn to take the podium at the United Nations. There was a world of problems for him to draw on but, not unexpectedly, he chose to concentrate on the Middle East. Thus, as has been the case with almost [...]

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Killing Palestinians with Impunity

by Stephen Lendman September 24, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz With peace talks underway in Washington; Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt; Jerusalem; then New York, Israel, almost daily, commits crimes of war and against humanity. Some of the latest include: air strikes against Gaza, killing two Palestinian civilians in another one; peaceful protesters attacked in Gaza and the West [...]

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Does International Law Have a Future? – An Analysis

by Lawrence Davidson September 12, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz I. The Usual Suspects Back on August 23, 2010 Israel’s most prestigious human rights organization, B’Tselem released a short report on the condition of water supplies in the Gaza Strip. Referencing the United Nations Environment Program as well as the Palestine Water Authority, B’Tselem reported that the [...]

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B’tselem: Gaza, 95% of factories are closed, 93% of water is polluted

by Haitham Sabbah June 14, 2010

Most of Gaza’s factories have closed and its water is polluted as a result of Israel’s siege policy, according to a new report being released today by the Israeli Human Rights group – B’tselem. The siege policy has “led to economic collapse in Gaza,” B’tselem noted in a 44-page report (PDF) that looked at Gaza, [...]

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Youth shot to death in Gaza [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah April 29, 2010

A new documented war crime. 28 April 2010 – A Palestinian youth, Ahmad Sliman Salem Dib, aged 19, died at Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after he was injured by Israeli fire while attending a demonstration near the border to protest the imposition of “no-go” zones by Israeli armed forces. In the following video a [...]

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Deporting Gandhi from Palestine

by SR Editor April 19, 2010

By Jamal Dajani* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The Israeli government’s recent announcement of Army order No. 1,650 was just the latest act of provocation in a series of calculated measures to derail any possible resumption of peace negotiations. Under this new draconian measure, anyone who doesn’t have a “permit” to be in the West [...]

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Shin Bet boasts of 1,000 assassinations, included 150 children

by Haitham Sabbah January 15, 2008

Including 5 year old children… The West close their eyes to this Israeli method of “justice”… No one asks why, if Israel knows where these people are, it cannot ARREST them and put them on trial?? The West accept assassination by Israel as a democratic method, and of course, take its word when it calls [...]

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Updated: More minors used as human shields by IOF

by Haitham Sabbah March 9, 2007

Why I say â€˜moreâ€™? Basically because this is nothing new. Following the â€˜Hot Winterâ€˜ operation on Nablus, the Israeli occupation forces is facing new allegations about the use of Human Shields in itâ€™s illegal operations. Started with AP filming the IOF soldiers using locals as human shield during offensive on Nablus, more reports were published [...]

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On tape: Palestinians harassed by Jewish settler in Hebron ‘cage’ (Part 1)

by Haitham Sabbah January 10, 2007

Tape obtained by B’Tselem shows just one example of suffering Palestinians endure on daily basis from Jewish settler. [Hat tip: Wassim Al-Adel] Warning: NSFW Also available on YouTube! play_blip_movie_133193(); Spread the word: Kindly rate this video on YouTube and grab the code to embed in you blog! <embed wmode=”transparent” src=”http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/blipplayer.swf?autoStart=false&file=http://blip.tv/file/get/Sabbah-PalestiniansHarassedByJewishSettler641.flv%3Fsource%3D3″ quality=”high” width=”480″ height=”360″ name=”movie” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” [...]

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