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Indictment of two Israeli soldiers for allegedly using a nine year old as a human shield during operation Cast Lead
B'Tselem expressed its hope that this indictment indicates that the Military Police are completing, over a year since the end of hostilities, all investigations into
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Suspicion that soldiers shot Faiz Faraj to death in Hebron as he lay wounded, endangering nobody
On Friday, 12 February 2010, at around 4:00 P.M., soldiers shot Faiz Ahmad Sa’id Faraj, a 41-year-old resident of Hebron, wounding him seriously. He died about an hour later from his wounds. The incident took place in the a-Sheikh neighborhood in Hebron. Faraj, who owned a shoe factory and had a permit to enter Israel for business matters, was married and had nine children. ...
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Soldiers disturb and assault B'Tselem’s video photographers in the West Bank despite army’s declaration that filming is permitted
In early 2007, B'Tselem launched a camera distribution project in which it supplies video cameras to Palestinians living in areas in the Occupied Territories where confrontations commonly occur. The project’s objective is to aid Palestinians under occupation to bring the reality of their lives to the attention of the Israeli and international public, expose violation of their rights, and demand redress....
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Children as young as 12 arrested in night raids in Silwan, East Jerusalem
B'Tselem recently uncovered a number of cases in which minors aged 12-15 from Silwan, in East Jerusalem, were arrested in the middle of the night by police officers and Israel Security Agency agents accompanied by armed border policemen....
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One year after Operation Cast Lead, B'Tselem has launched a public campaign demanding that Israel lift its siege on the Gaza Strip. This is necessary in order to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip from the destruction wrought by the hostilities. As part of the campaign, the organization is releasing a new animated short film, by Alon Simone....
Animation: Lift siege on Gaza
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7 Groups' Letter to President Obama on Gaza
B'Tselem, together with six other Middle East peace and human rights organizations, today sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to ask Israel to lift its Gaza closure in order to remove a "serious obstacle to restoring hope and making peace" in the region. Following is a the full text of the letter: ...
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Open criminal investigation into phosphorus shelling of UNWRA facility
B’Tselem has sent an urgent letter to the judge advocate general, Maj. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, demanding that he immediately order a Military Police investigation into the circumstances of the firing of phosphorus shells at the UNWRA compound in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead....
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Grave suspicion that the killing of the three Fatah activists in Nablus was unlawful
B'Tselem has written to the judge advocate general, Maj. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, demanding that he immediately order a Military Police investigation into the circumstances of the killings of Ghassan Abu Sharakh, Nader a-Sarkaji, and ‘Anan Subuh in Nablus on 26 December 2009. B'Tselem further demanded that the Military Police investigate the soldiers’ violence against the families of the three men and the damage caused to their property....
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Human rights community to Israeli Prime Minister: Time is running out. Establish independent inquiry into Operation Cast Lead
Human rights organizations in Israel reissued their call to the Government of Israel to establish, without delay, an independent and impartial investigation mechanism to thoroughly examine the allegations raised regarding violations of international law during Operation Cast Lead....
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The human rights community in Israel condemns the extreme silencing of protest in Israel
In recent weeks, the police has made dozens of false arrests of demonstrators in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Among those arrested were Executive Directors of two leading Israeli human rights organizations – Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), and Rabbis for Human Rights....
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