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The Gaza Strip

Clinging to what’s left of life: Palestinian women under genocide in Gaza

Since October 2023, women in the Gaza Strip have been living under Israel’s genocide against Palestinians there. Daily care for the family typically falls to women: preparing food, maintaining hygienic living spaces, and tending to children’s health and education. These responsibilities have become difficult, if not impossible, to carry out in the harsh living conditions of internally displaced persons (IDPs): living in tents without access to essential supplies such as water, food, cooking equipment and cleaning materials, and with a decimated education system...

8 March 2026

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli Border Police officers lay in ambush and fatally shot a teen and a young man who threw stones during a raid on the Kafr ‘Aqab neighborhood in East Jerusalem

On the night between 20 and 21 November 2025, around midnight, two Israeli Border Police vehicles carrying about 12 Special Patrol Unit officers raided the Kafr ‘Aqab neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The vehicles stopped on the Ramallah-Jerusalem road, next to the commercial center by the Sikal junction. Some of the officers were masked and, according to eyewitnesses, their rifles were fitted with silencers...

26 February 2026

Settler Violence = State Violence

Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank: An Israeli settler militia attacked Palestinians in Khirbet Susiya, no one was arrested

Last night (Tuesday), 24 February, at around 8:00 P.M about 20 Israeli settlers raided the village of Khirbet Susiya in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills, armed with clubs and flammable materials. They attacked homes and cars with stones, and set fire to three tents, a pre-fab, chicken coops and cars at several spots throughout the village...

25 February 2026

The Gaza Strip

After Israel destroyed Gaza’s essential infrastructure, 39 local residents, including 22 minors, lost their lives due to severe weather in December and January

In December 2025, the umbrella organization Shelter Cluster reported that Storm Byron and several other severe storms over the course of that month had damaged about 65,000 households in the Gaza Strip, in at least 537 IDP compounds. According to figures released by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, from the beginning of December 2025 to the end of January 2026, at least 39 people died in Gaza due to weather-related hazards, more than half of them minors (22)...

23 February 2026

Open-Fire Policy

Soldiers opened fire at a car with children, killing their 58-year-old grandfather at the wheel

Saturday, 10 January 2026, at around 8:45 P.M., Shaker Ja’bari, 58, was driving his daughter, Raslan Ja’bari, and her four young children in his car in the Khallet Hadur neighborhood in Hebron, when he suddenly noticed a group of soldiers walking up the street ahead of him. Ja’bari screeched to a halt, and then one of the soldiers fired three shots at the car. One of the bullets went through the windshield and hit Shaker Ja’bari in the forehead. Two of his grandchildren, Juri, 11, and Muhammad, 9, got out of the car and ran away, shouting and crying. A local resident who witnessed the incident helped Raslan Ja’bari get out of the car with her two younger children, Julia, 2, and Rayan, 5, and took them into the home of his relatives who live nearby, without their older siblings.

12 February 2026

Open-Fire Policy

An Israeli soldier shooting at close range killed Rayan Abu M’alla (Saba’neh), 16, who posed no danger to anyone

On Saturday, 20 December 2025, in the early evening, several military jeeps raided the center of the town of Qabatiyah in Jenin District. Shortly before 7:00 P.M., one of the jeeps drove back and forth through the streets of the a-Saba’neh neighborhood near the town center, repeatedly honking its horn and disturbing residents. A group of youths followed the jeep, shouting and whistling, and some of them threw stones at it from afar...

4 February 2026

Open-Fire Policy

Deir Jarir, Ramallah District: Soldiers assisting settlers attacking homes shot and killed an onlooker from the village

On Sunday, 23 November 2025, at around 3:30 P.M., four settlers and a soldier set out from the Hessed Le’avraham outpost, which was established in 2025 on a hill in the Tal al-‘Assur area, about 270 meters north of the village of Deir Jarir. The group walked down to the home of Sidqi M’aali, 74, which lies further down the hill, and started throwing stones at the house while the family was sitting on the porch.

26 January 2026

Settler Violence = State Violence

Khallet a-Sidrah, al-Quds District: Shepherding community facing immediate expulsion

The Palestinian community of Khallet a-Sidrah lies about 800 meters northeast of the village of Mikhmas. It is home to 16 families from the Ka’abneh and Jahalin tribes, numbering 59 people in total, about half of them children, who live off shepherding. The settlement of Ma'ale Mikhmas was established in 1981 about 1.5 kilometers from the community. Since 2022, three more outposts have been established nearby: Nahalat Zvi, about 1 kilometer south of the community; Sde Yonatan, about 1.5 kilometers to the north; and Kol Mevaser, established in October 2025 only some 500 meters south of community homes.

25 January 2026

Detainees & Prisoners

New report: Living Hell - The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps

“Living Hell” follows on B’Tselem’s August 2024 report “Welcome to Hell.” It provides updated figures and new testimonies from 21 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons in recent months and indicates that Israeli prisons continue to function as a network of torture camps for Palestinians, with the systematic abuse even more extensive than before. This includes physical and psychological abuse, inhuman conditions, deliberate starvation....

19 January 2026

Settler Violence = State Violence

Armed Israeli militias forcibly transferred 26 families from the southern Jordan Valley Palestinian community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja

On 8 January 2026, after persistent attempts, Israel succeeded in forcibly transferring 26 families, numbering 124 people, including 59 minors, from the community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja. The families were forced to abandon their homes due to ongoing violence by settler militias and official Israeli forces. The community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja, located about 10 kilometers north of Jericho, is the last remaining shepherding community in the southern Jordan Valley, and the largest remaining in the West Bank....

8 January 2026

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian driver after he obeyed their orders to stop, and a sanitation worker who happened to be there as well

On Saturday evening, 6 December 2025, eight soldiers advanced along Be’er Sheva Street in Hebron, stopping vehicles and searching shops in the area. The soldiers confiscated the keys of at least two of the vehicles they stopped and left the drivers sitting inside them. At around 9:00 P.M., when the soldiers reached the intersection leading to Wadi a-Tuffah Street and Bab a-Zawiya, a car passed on the street. Its driver, Ahmad Rajabi, 17, came from Wadi a-Tuffah Street and turned onto Be’er Sheva Street, on his way from his home in the Jabal a-Sharif area to visit a friend at al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron. The car belonged to relatives of his who are residents of East Jerusalem and had yellow (Israeli) license plates...

5 January 2026

The Gaza Strip

Scrollytelling: The Displacement Journey of Nibal al-Hisi

For two years, Israel has repeatedly uprooted most of Gaza’s population. In addition to official evacuation orders, many have been forced to flee the frequent airstrikes raining down death and destruction throughout the Strip. They quickly discovered there is no safe place anywhere in the Strip. We followed Nibal al-Hisi, 25, who lost her home and has been displaced from one camp to another with her toddler, even while recovering from a major injury.

19 December 2025

The Gaza Strip

"No Place Under Heaven": Forced displacement in the Gaza Strip, 2023-2025

Since October 2023, the Israeli regime has been carrying out genocide in the Gaza Strip. It has killed tens of thousands of people, injured hundreds of thousands more, destroyed homes and critical infrastructure and starved most of the population – all as part of a systematic, coordinated attack aimed at annihilating all facets of life in the Gaza Strip.

19 December 2025

The Gaza Strip

Yellow Line of "ceasefire" in Gaza leading to more killing and displacement

In the first stage of the October 2025 "ceasefire deal", Israel was to withdraw to the “Yellow Line,” leaving 58% of the Gaza Strip in its control. At first, Israel did not mark the line. Then it placed concrete blocks along it, but the moved them west, forcing Palestinians to flee again. From the start of the “ceasefire” to mid-December, Israel killed 391 Palestinians in Gaza and injured 1,063. Many were shot near the Yellow Line, including children.

18 December 2025

The Gaza Strip

Gaza: The recent November rainfall flooded the displacement camps

Due to the complete destruction that the genocidal Israeli attack caused to the infrastructure of the Gaza Strip, as well as to its sewage and drainage systems, the recent November rainfall flooded the displacement camps: approximately 13,000 tents were destroyed, and more than 740,000 people were affected by the storm damage. Rainwater mixed with raw sewage, creating fertile ground for infection and disease, and leaving hundreds of thousands without basic shelter. Children were documented in summer clothing and barefoot in the cold due to the lack of warm clothes.

14 December 2025

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14 December 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli soldiers executed a Palestinian after overpowering him and fatally shooting his wounded brother

On Tuesday, 10 June 2025, at around 1:00 A.M., Israeli military, Border Police and Shin Bet (ISA) forces raided the Old City area of Nablus, entered many homes and detained dozens of people for questioning. From the morning hours, residents began leaving the neighborhood to seek safety due to the massive presence of the forces and given recurring incidents of civilian killings during military raids on Palestinian cities and refugee camps. At around 1:00 P.M., paramedics arrived in the neighborhood to help the Qotub family – one of the families seeking to evacuate. Several journalists were documenting the events. When the paramedics reached the edge of the neighborhood, soldiers detained four young men from the family in a nearby alley. The rest of the family left the area, while the paramedics and journalists waited at the entrance to the street.

9 December 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli Border Police raided ‘Ein Beit al-Maa R.C. and fired indiscriminately, killing a resident sheltering at home with his wife. The military later claimed they had “eliminated a terrorist who endangered the fighters’ lives”

ביום ראשון, 19.10.25, בשעות הבוקר המאוחרות הגיעו שוטרים מיחידת המסתערבים של מג"ב ברכב אזרחי לרחוב א-סיכה בשכונה הצפון-מערבית של מחנה עין בית אל-מאא (אל-עין) בשכם. מהרכב יצאו כעשרה שוטרים בלבוש אזרחי, התפרצו לביתו של מוחמד אבו דאווד ועצרו את נכדו, נור אבו שלאל, בן 22. במקביל התמקמו שוטרי מג"ב רבים בסמוך לבית ועל גגות בתים סמוכים וכן בכמה נקודות אחרות במחנה...

4 December 2025

Settler Violence = State Violence

Al-Mughayir, Ramallah District: A settler grazing sheep on village land shot and killed a young man who tried to drive him away

On Tuesday, 23 September 2025, at around 9:00 A.M., three settlers, all armed with rifles, set out from an outpost established on al-Mughayir village land towards homes in the village, and set a flock to graze nearby. They remained near the village and at around 5:00 P.M., two of them led the flock close to a playground built a few months earlier in the southern part of the village.

20 November 2025

Settler Violence = State Violence

Duma, Nablus District: A settler shot and killed a resident while working to take over private land for an outpost

On Wednesday, 13 August 2025, at around 10:30 A.M., about 25 village residents gathered in the eastern part of Duma and started marching towards settlers who were carrying out earthworks on private land owned by residents. Several days prior, settlers began clearing a road to connect the outpost of Giborey David Farm, then under construction, to another outpost established nearby in early July.

11 November 2025