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The Gaza Strip

Voices from Gaza: Rajaa ‘Alian

A 29-year-old mother of one from Beit Lahiya, spoke about the family’s displacement, life under siege, the airstrike that wounded her and her five-year-old daughter and killed her mother and two sisters, and another strike that killed her eldest sister along with other relatives...

11 November 2025

Hebron City Center

Hebron: Soldiers detained a five- and six-year-old and mistreated them

On 18 October 2025, in the afternoon, about ten Israeli soldiers in two military jeeps raided the main street in the al-Qasarah area of Hebron. Two neighborhood children, Ibrahim a-Rajabi, 6, and his cousin Adam, 5, went out to play near their homes. Around 4:00 P.M., two soldiers were filmed detaining the children. The footage shows one soldier beginning to drag Ibrahim and then letting go, while another soldier forces Adam to sit on the ground. A third soldier is then seen kicking Ibrahim in the leg, pulling him up forcefully by his arm, and leading both boys away after Adam got up.

11 November 2025

Settler Violence = State Violence

‘Aqraba, Nablus District: Settlers opened fire at Palestinian farmers amid attempt to drive them off their own land, killing one and wounding seven. Soldiers expelled the farmers

On 2 August 2025, at around 6:30 P.M., while residents of ‘Aqraba were harvesting vegetables on their land in the al-Mahforiyeh agricultural area south of the town, three armed settlers arrived, two carrying rifles and one a club. Two military jeeps stopped on Route 505, about 300 meters away...

9 November 2025

Settler Violence = State Violence

Wadi Ejheish, South Hebron Hills: Settlers attacked a home and tried to break in, smashed windows, pepper-sprayed six family members including a baby, slaughtered sheep and vandalized a car

On 27 October 2025, at around 1:00 P.M., eight masked settlers came, carrying clubs and wearing gloves, to the home of Wafa and Mahmoud Daramin in the Wadi Ejheish area near the town of a-Samu’. The couple and their four children, the youngest a six-month-old baby, were in the yard and Mahmoud was praying.

9 November 2025

Settler Violence = State Violence

Soldiers shot and killed three young men in Kafr Malik in a joint attack with settlers

On Wednesday, 25 June 2025, at around 7:30 P.M., residents of Kafr Malik posted on social media that settlers were gathering on Route 449 south of the village. A few minutes later, dozens of masked settlers, most of them carrying clubs and one armed with a handgun, arrived at the southern outskirts of the village in about 15 vehicles. They attacked residents and houses in the village with stones, set homes and cars on fire, and sprayed hate graffiti. The armed settler fired his handgun at residents who had gathered to defend the village. Some of the residents chased the settlers, threw stones at them and managed to push them back to Route 449...

21 September 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Nablus: Soldiers leaving the gold market after a raid shot merchants from a jeep, about 50m away, killing father of two Mahmoud al-Kharaz

בשעות הבוקר של יום שלישי, 27.5.25, פשטו כוחות צבא ומשטרה על עסקים של חלפני כספים ועל חנויות תכשיטים בערים רמאללה, טובאס, שכם, קלקיליה, בית לחם, חברון, סלפית וג'נין. במהלך הפשיטות, החרימו הכוחות מיליוני שקלים וסגרו עסקים בצו של אלוף הפיקוד.

28 August 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli soldiers fatally shot a teen who was closing his family’s grocery store and delayed his evacuation

On Friday, 25 April 2025, at around 3:30 P.M., two military jeeps entered the village of Salem, east of Nablus. When they reached the center of the village, the soldiers in the jeeps threw several stun grenades for no apparent reason. At the time, 16-year-old ‘Abd al-Khaleq ‘Abd al-Khaleq was working alone in his family’s grocery store near a nearby roundabout, as he often did after school. ‘Abd al-Khaleq, who apparently heard about the soldiers entering the village, decided to close the grocery store. Meanwhile, several soldiers got out of the jeeps and advanced on foot toward the roundabout under cover of a grove bordering it.

26 August 2025

The Gaza Strip

Total blockade and death traps: How Israel is starving the Gaza Strip

The deliberate starvation of Gaza, which branches of the UN designated “the hungriest place on Earth” in May 2025, is one means of destruction Israel is using in the genocide it is committing in Gaza. With every passing day, the hunger in Gaza deepens and ​more people, including children, die from malnutrition. Yet Israel continues its attempts to suppress the reality of the hunger crisis in Gaza. This document presents Israel’s system of starvation in the Gaza Strip, which includes destroying food and means of food production, preventing food from entering, undermining existing aid systems and creating deadly conditions for obtaining food. Read more...

21 August 2025

Settler Violence = State Violence

Um al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills: A settler shot and killed peace activist Awdah al-Hathaleen, and soldiers arrested the victim’s relatives on his orders

On Monday, 28 July 2025, around 9:00 A.M., Israeli settlers started carrying out earthworks with an excavator on land that Israel declared “state land” adjacent to the Palestinian village of Um al-Kheir in Masafer Yatta, the South Hebron Hills. Among them was Yinon Levi, a settler and excavation contractor who established the Havat Meitarim outpost near the Palestinian community of Khirbet Zanutah and played a key role in driving the residents out. In 2024, several countries imposed sanctions on Levi...

10 August 2025

New report: Our Genocide

For nearly two years, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza, acting in a systematic, deliberate way to destroy Palestinian society there through mass killing, causing serious bodily and mental harm and creating catastrophic conditions that prevent its continued existence in Gaza. Israel is openly promoting ethnic cleansing and the destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure for individuals and the group, with 2 million people starved, displaced, bombed and left by the world to die. The genocide must be stopped.

28 July 2025

The Gaza Strip

Israel denying treatment to thousands of Gazans who lost limbs in Israeli attacks, almost 1,000 of them children

Israeli attacks since Oct. 2023 have caused more than 15,000 Gazans limb injuries, leading to more than 4,700 amputations, over 940 in children and about 370 in women. Doctors report amputations in inhumane conditions by untrained staff, at times without anesthesia, and proper rehabilitation is unavailable. B’Tselem spoke with parents and teens struggling to survive these conditions.

9 July 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Undercover Border Police executed a Palestinian raising his hands in surrender in the city of Nablus

On Thursday, 8 May 2025, around midday, four members of the al-Kukhun family left the Nablus Specialty Hospital and went to their home on a-Nasser Street in the Old City of Nablus. The father, Sami (60), had been discharged after undergoing a battery replacement in his pacemaker and was scheduled for open-heart surgery a few days later. Accompanying him were his wife, Futnah (57), his sister Suha (50), and his son Rami (31), who was driving them in his car.

30 June 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli soldiers shot a father of five who fled when they raided his home and posed no threat to them

On Friday, 4 April 2025, around 1:00 A.M., military forces arrived in several military vehicles at the northern outskirts of the city of Jenin from the direction of the village of Jalameh. They stopped on Route 60 where it runs between the Kharruba and Sabah al-Kheir neighborhoods. Soldiers who got out of the vehicles walked to the home of the Hardan family, about 100 meters away from the main road, and entered it. Hussein Hardan, 43, and his son Hamzah, 14, noticed the approaching soldiers and managed to escape through the back door, fearing an arrest by the army, which currently almost always involves severe abuse. Hussein’s elderly mother, Subhiya Hardan, 69, remained in the house with Hussein’s wife, Fadiyah Hardan, 34, and the couple’s children: Asil, 13, Sadil, 11, Malak, 8, and Taha, 4.

22 June 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli soldiers raided a Palestinian home in Nablus, killed one family member and arrested another

On the night between Tuesday, 1 April 2025 and Wednesday, 2 April 2025, Israeli military forces raided the city of Nablus. Troops first raided the home of Karim Snobar in the village of Zawata, on the northwestern edge of the city, to survey the home ahead of demolition. They then proceeded toward the Old City of Nablus and other parts of the city. At around 2:30 A.M., residents of the al-Yasmina neighborhood in the Old City reported the arrival of Israeli forces.

18 June 2025

Israel’s extremist and unchecked government has opened a new front with Iran as its crimes in Gaza and the West Bank continue.

Israel’s extremist and unchecked government has opened a new front with Iran as its crimes in Gaza and the West Bank continue. While millions in Israel and Iran face missile attacks, most Palestinians within Israel, the West Bank, and Jerusalem are defenseless, with their communities lacking shelters. We caution: Israel will exploit the current situation to intensify harm to Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and everywhere under its control.

15 June 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man who was leaning against the wrong car, eating a sandwich, and caused damage to a café

On Wednesday, 19 March 2025, roughly half an hour past midnight, about 10–15 customers were sitting at the Abu Dawud internet café in ‘Ein Beit al-Maa Refugee Camp (al-’Ein R.C.) in northwestern Nablus. One customer, ‘Udai Qatoni (23), bought a sandwich and went out to the street to eat it. He leaned up against a car that a man who was apparently wanted by Israeli security forces had parked in front of the café just minutes earlier. Suddenly, a volley of gunshots rang out. Qatoni and the car he was leaning against were hit. Qatoni cried out for help and tried to crawl back toward the café. The café owner, Hussein Abu Dawud (36), and his cousin Saber Abu Dawud (42), went over to help ‘Udai inside. However, when they reached the café’s doorstep, another volley was fired at them, hitting Qatoni again and injuring Saber Abu Dawud in the shoulder and arm. At that point, Qatoni was still alive and managed to say a few words.

15 June 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Soldiers shot and killed a 13-year-old near her home in Jenin Refugee Camp

Rimas ‘Amuri, 13, lived with her family in the al-Jabriyat neighborhood in the southern part of Jenin Refugee Camp. At around 3:00 P.M. on 21 February 2025, about a month after the military incursion into the camp began, Rimas asked her mother for permission to go to her uncle’s house next door to visit her cousins. No clashes were taking place in the neighborhood at the time, but just as Rimas turned onto the path leading to her uncle’s house, about 20 meters from her own home, a group of five or six soldiers fired at her from a distance of 30 to 40 meters. Rimas was hit in the back and collapsed to the ground, crying out for help.

5 June 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli soldiers in ambush opened massive fire at three Palestinian teens, killing one and injuring two, after at least one apparently threw a stone at a highway near Turmusaya

On Sunday, 6 April 2025, at around 6:20 P.M. (standard time), Israeli soldiers directed a barrage of fire at three Palestinian teens who were in an almond grove on the northern edge of Turmusaya, about 30 meters from Route 60. Apparently, at least one of the boys threw a stone toward the road prior to the shooting. The soldiers, who had been likely lying in ambush on the other side of the road, fired more than thirty bullets at the boys, hitting all three. One of the boys, ‘Amer Rabi’ (14), immediately fell to the ground. The other two, one wounded in the thigh and groin and the other in the abdomen, managed to escape and called a friend, who drove them to a clinic in the nearby town of Abu Falah. As the soldiers kept firing, they were unable to evacuate their friend, who remained lying on the ground. After a short while, soldiers reached him and apparently tried to administer first aid, but he died of his wounds. The soldiers then removed his body from the scene.

29 May 2025

Settler Violence = State Violence

Sinjil, Ramallah District: Israeli settlers building an outpost on town land attacked residents and burned homes and vehicles; one resident died of a heart attack after inhaling smoke

On 21 April 2025, settlers set up an outpost on a hill on land belonging to the town of Sinjil in Ramallah District. When town residents went to the area to drive them out, the settlers attacked them with stones and pushed them back towards the town. One settler fired shots at a group of residents without hitting anyone. The settlers chased the residents towards the town, burned a Bedouin tent compound to the ground, stole sheep from it, and set fire to a farming shed and to other property in the town’s fields…

26 May 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Israel soldiers shot and killed a father of five bringing bread to his family in Balata Refugee Camp

On Saturday, 25 January 2025, at around 8:30 P.M., Ahmad Sawalmeh, 42, and his son ‘Udai, 19, the eldest of five, went to the family’s bakery to bake bread for the family and for a neighbor. The bakery is located in the al-Hashashin neighborhood, at the southwestern edge of Balata Refugee Camp, about 50 meters from their home. While they were there, they found out a military force was approaching the neighborhood and decided to go home, to avoid being stranded if the raid took a while...

19 May 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a pregnant woman, used her relative as a human shield, and killed another woman when they blew up her front door

On 27 January 2025, military, Border Police and Shin Bet forces raided the city of Tulkarm and nearby refugee camps as part of Operation Iron Wall, announced by Israel on 21 January 2025. The operation, which initially focused on Jenin, was expanded on 27 January 2025 to include Tulkarm and Tulkarm R.C., and about a week and a half later, on 8 February 2025, Israeli forces also raided nearby Nur Shams R.C. After hearing about what was happening in Tulkarm R.C. and Jenin R.C., some residents of Nur Shams decided to flee before the army forces actively expelled them. Eight-month-pregnant Sundus Shalabi (20), her husband Yazan Abu Shu’lah (26), and his brother Bilal (20) were among them...

18 May 2025

Open-Fire Policy

Israeli forces killed a child and a young man who posed no danger to anyone in two separate incidents on the same day in Tulkarm

On 27 January 2025, military, Border Police, and Shin Bet forces raided the city of Tulkarm and nearby refugee camps as part of Operation Iron Wall, which was announced by Israel on 21 January and initially focused on the Jenin area. On 28 January, at around 6:30 P.M., Iyad Rajab, 41, was socializing with neighbors on the third floor of their apartment building in central Tulkarm when his son Sadam, 10, went out to the building’s front entrance to speak to his mother on the phone. Security camera footage documented Sadam standing at the doorway with a phone in his hand, and then sustaining a shot and falling down, screaming and writhing in pain. About two minutes later, his father hobbled over on crutches, which he was using after surgery, and with the help of other residents, dragged Sadam a few meters away to protect him from the continued shooting continued. By then, Sadam had stopped moving.

7 May 2025

No Accountability

Israeli police raided a café in Qalqilyah and fired indiscriminately, killing a customer and injuring others

In the early hours of Tuesday, 18 March 2025, several dozen young Palestinians were sitting in a café in the Kafr Saba neighborhood of eastern Qalqilyah. The café, called a-Saha, is in a covered temporary structure, with tables outside in a fenced yard. Around 2:20 A.M., about 20 officers from the Gidonim unit of the Israeli police arrived in a small truck and a pickup with Palestinian license plates, coming from the direction of a-Salam Street. The officers exited the vehicles, ran toward the crowded café and began shooting live rounds at it. A few minutes later, about seven more vehicles of Israeli forces arrived.

6 May 2025