Infographic: How the Israeli ID card system enforces apartheid
15 May 2014
Powerful new graphic from Visualizing Palestine shows how Israel’s system of identity cards is used to enforce apartheid on Palestinians.
Rights and Accountability
Rights groups call on Israel to free Druze army refuser
14 May 2014
Omar Saad was hospitalized after contracting a liver infection while imprisoned for refusing military service.
Palestinians in Hebron face violent revenge for filming Israeli soldier's violence
14 May 2014
Palestinian activists face death threats, raids and beatings by Israeli soldiers as “revenge” for filming their misconduct in Hebron, says Issa Amro, director of Youth Against Settlements.
Children describe torture in Israeli solitary confinement
12 May 2014
A rising proportion of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli occupation forces are subjected to solitary confinement, harsh interrogations and ill-treatment amounting to torture.
Hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners punished by Israel
7 May 2014
Israel isolates hunger strikers, imposes solitary confinement and denies salts, putting lives of prisoners in jeopardy.
Lebanon deports Palestinian refugees to Syria
6 May 2014
Refugees forcibly returned to Syria at “grave risk,” Human Rights Watch warns.
Israeli soldier becomes overnight hero for pointing loaded gun at Palestinian youths
5 May 2014
Israeli extremism on display in support of soldier who cocked his gun at unarmed Palestinian youths.
Israel holding 9 Palestinian legislators without charge or trial
1 May 2014
Palestinians held in administrative detention on open-ended hunger strike in Israeli prisons.
Thousands at risk of starvation in Yarmouk, UN warns
24 April 2014
Syrian government “using starvation as a weapon of war,” says Amnesty International.
Israel places journalist in incommunicado detention
13 April 2014
The Electronic Intifada has obtained the closed court transcript and gag order extending the detention and interrogation of journalist Majd Kayyal, which Israeli media are not permitted to report.