B'Tselem

NGO B’Tselem report presents baseless claims of Israel dismantling Palestinian life in West Bank

WEST BANK AFFAIRS: B’Tselem accuses Israel of systematically dismantling Palestinian life in the West Bank, as Israel calls its central claim baseless.

AN ISRAELI flag flies near the West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron, with a mosque in the Palestinian village of Kafr Lakif in the background. B’Tselem’s new report argues that Israel is making Jewish control of the West Bank increasingly irreversible, an allegation Israel and the IDF reject.
Palestinians use their phones as Israeli settlers and military personnel stand outside a Palestinian home in Qusra, in the West Bank, August 15, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a video.

B'Tselem claims 47 Palestinian families at risk of expulsion, IDF says homes built illegally

A HAMAS terrorist stands on a street during Eid al-Fitr in Gaza City.

New IAM investigation claims B'Tselem report ‘demonizes Israel by rebranding terrorists as minors’

Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron

An absurd theater: How ‘settler violence’ statistics fuel a false narrative - opinion


Israel’s punitive home demolition policy: More harm than good?

Debates intensify over Israel's punitive home demolition policy, which faces scrutiny as to its legality, morality, and efficacy.

 Israeli military forces demolish the West Bank homes of the terrorists who killed Vyacheslav Golev in Ariel

IDF Court holds first hearing against B’Tselem activist, NGO accuses Israel of harassment

Neither the IDF prosecution nor Nawaj’ah have provided a fully detailed public narrative of their side of the case. 

Palestinians throw stones during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troops after Israeli machinery demolish a school near Bethlehem in the West Bank May 7, 2023

Grapevine April 23, 2023: Conflicting viewpoints

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PRINCE EDWARD (third from left) with winners of the Israel Youth Award.

What is Israel's silent war on terror in the West Bank?

MILITARY AFFAIRS: West Bank Palestinian deaths tripled between 2020-2021 and the number is still climbing.

 PALESTINIANS CLASH with Israeli security forces near the West Bank village of Kafr Kaddum last week.

Was a B’Tselem activist unfairly pressured by Shin Bet?

Both sides agree that Nasser Nawaj’ah was detained and questioned by the security agency (ISA) on Sunday, but they disagree about whether or not his detention was due to legitimate security concerns.

A road sign in English, Hebrew, and Arabic points to the Israeli settlement of Susiya

Biden's east Jerusalem visit boosts PA claim to city - congressmen

The initiative to try and sway Biden not to make an unprecedented visit to the eastern part of the city was spearheaded by Rep. Beth Van Duyne of Texas. 

 US President Joe Biden waves as he leaves Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, on his way to Jersualem, near Tel Aviv, Israel, July 13, 2022

Israeli NGO to Biden: Mr. President, this is apartheid

Biden is a strong proponent of a two-state resolution to the conflict and plans to meet separately with Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

  Signs proclaiming Israel to be practising apartheid put up by B'tselem ahead of Biden's visit, July 13,2022

IDF troops fired towards car without justification - video by B'Tselem

11-year-old Mohammed al-Alaama was hit in the chest after IDF troops fired at a family car last week. B'Tselem is calling it unjustified and criminal.

IDF forces and Palestinian youth clash in Hebron, May 18, 2021

B'Tselem activists arrested for torching land in West Bank

The activists were Imad Abu Shamsiyya, a photographer for B'Tselem who documented the controversial Elior Azaria case, and Araf Jabber.

Site where B'Tselem activists burned Israeli territory near Kiryat Arba

Israeli police killed Palestinian who didn't pose threat - B'Tselem

Ahmad 'Abdu, 25, was sitting in his car in the West Bank city of al-Bireh when Israeli Special Police blocked his vehicle and opened fire.

Border Police activity in the city of Lod on Tuesday night.