In a report published Thursday, human rights group B’Tselem said that the Israel Defense Forces is still using Palestinian citizens as ‘human shields’ during dangerous operations.
“Israel has many different ways to make life very hard for Palestinians so that they will be driven off their land,” said Dror Etkes, an Israeli expert on the settlements. “But the firing zones are the number one method.”
Military training areas leave villagers in West Bank with stark choice: leave or risk being
Israel recently announced that it planned to resume punitive home demolitions after suspending the practice a decade ago.
(Al-Akhbar) – Israeli occupation forces who shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank last week used live fire, without warning, against innocent youngsters out foraging for roots, an Israeli rights group said Wednesday.
Israeli soldiers arrest 5-year-old Palestinian for throwing stone
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Israeli soldiers detained a 5-year-old Palestinian boy in the West Bank for two hours for throwing a stone, threatened his family with arrest, before handcuffing and blindfolding his father, an Israeli human rights NGO reported Thursday.
Israel to Expand two Settlements with 0ver 1,000 New Housing Units
Palestinian protesters wave the national flag as their comrades climb Israel’s controversial separation barrier during clashes with Israeli security forces following a demonstration against Israeli settlements and its separation wall, in the West Bank village of Nilin near the Jewish settlement of Hashmonaim on 31 May 2013. (Photo: AFP – Abbas Momani)
