Rights and Accountability

Israel invests millions in occupied Golan Heights settlement college

Patrick Strickland 29 August 2014

Since the violence broke out in Syria in March 2011, Israel has tried to exploit the situation in order to strengthen its occupation of the Golan Heights.

Protester against Israel's land theft remains jailed -- four months after arrest

Adri Nieuwhof 29 August 2014

Human rights groups complain to UN over how Murad Shtaiwi has been denied a fair trial.

Video: Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at 6-year-old children on their way to school

Rania Khalek 28 August 2014

Israeli soldiers have attacked elementary school kids in the occupied West Bank with tear gas twice this week.

Israel's extermination of whole families in Gaza reflects genocidal impulse

Rania Khalek 27 August 2014

Israel’s crimes in Gaza were not only war crimes and crimes against humanity. The evidence suggests they rise to the level of genocide.

Scorched earth: Israel obliterates two more Gaza high rises

Ali Abunimah 26 August 2014

Israel perpetrated the destruction of two more high-rise buildings in the Gaza Strip overnight, making hundreds more people homeless and destroying dozens of business.

Starve or surrender: Cut off all food and water to Gaza, says Israeli general

Ali Abunimah 23 August 2014

Israeli Major-General Giora Eiland has urged that all food and water be cut off to Gaza residents – a major war crime and precisely the “starve or surrender” policy condemned when used in Syria.