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Hebron
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Visit the occupied center of Hebron: once a lively Palestinian market, now a ghost town.

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from 'Haaretz'
07 03 23
from 'Haaretz'

Opinion | In Hawara we saw our true face

07 03 23

A Week Ago Some 400 Settlers Entered the West Bank Village of Hawara, Set Fire to Homes With Their Occupants Inside, Shot at Reporters and Apparently Shot to De

from 'The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com'
07 03 23
from 'The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com'

10% of Israeli Jews think terrorist Baruch Goldstein is a national hero

07 03 23

Baruch Goldstein was a Jewish settler and terrorist who massacred 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994. Some Israelis still support him.

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from 'The Intercept'
11 02 23
from 'The Intercept'

Aid and abetting

11 02 23

from 'The Daily Beast'
09 02 23
from 'The Daily Beast'

I Fought For Israel, Now I’m Fighting to End the Permanent Occupation of the Palestinian Territories

09 02 23

"For those of us within Israel who have been working for years to end Israel's occupation of the Palestinian people and their land, the rise of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultranationalist right-wing coalition government comes as no surprise."

from 'Ha'aretz'
24 01 23
from 'Ha'aretz'

Kochavi’s Belated, Anemic Criticism Means Nothing

24 01 23

Transferring control of the Civil Administration and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories to Smotrich really will give the racist unrestrained power,[...] but that doesn’t render Kochavi’s lethal policy acceptable.

from 'The Jewish News'
30 10 22
from 'The Jewish News'

The UK Jewish community is right to be outraged. But the rise of the Jewish supremacist far-right has been years in the making

30 10 22

"As one generation of young Israeli soldiers after the next is sent to uphold a system of violent military rule over the Palestinian population and to actively deprive it of basic rights, it’s not surprising that so many of my fellow Israeli citizens have come to internalise the idea that Palestinians on either side of the Green Line simply aren’t equal to us."

from 'Times of Israel'
05 09 22
from 'Times of Israel'

The faceless mass: On being at the forefront of the IDF's bureaucratic violence

05 09 22

Hundreds of people came to see me at the reception window every day. Multiply that by weeks, months – and yet, I can’t remember a single face. They were a foreign mass – faceless, indistinguishable – whereas I, belying the euphemistic pretenses of the term “Civil Administration,” was part of a mechanism of military control.

from 'Haaretz'
04 08 22
from 'Haaretz'

Report: Israel's Civil Administration Eases Permits for Palestinians in Exchange for Intel

04 08 22

Former Israeli soldiers told an anti-occupation NGO that the Civil Administration fosters give-and-take relationships with certain Palestinians, dubbed 'interlocutors'

from 'Haaretz'
04 08 22
from 'Haaretz'

Israeli Vets Say Denying Palestinians Permits Used to Suppress Hunger Strikes

04 08 22

Soldiers who served in the Civil Administration also told left-wing human rights monitor Breaking the Silence that West Bank settlers are directly involved in shaping its policy

04 04 22

From our Facebook Page

04 04 22

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Testimonies
video These Things, They Happen All The Time video

These Things, They Happen All The Time

Number: 56076


Unit: Engineering Corps


Rank: First Sergeant


Place: Ramallah


Period: 2005


testimony

We’re waging a ‘just war.’

You enter the house, just another family, and you see the furious look...

Number: 4321

Rank: First Sergeant


Unit: Paratroopers


Area: Nablus area


If they resist even a bit, then you pin them to the wall

If he’s between the ages we like – fresh, between 20 and 30 – you...

Number: 4377

Rank: First Sergeant


Unit:


Area: Hebron


They wanted to find some Palestinian and kill him

We were called traitors, [told] that we’re Nazis, that we hate Jews and...

Number: 4383

Rank: First Sergeant


Unit: Nahal, 932nd Battalion


Area: Hebron


They really feel like they own the place

There, I remember, it was settler kids between the ages of 6 to 8. A group...

Number: 4361

Rank: First Sergeant


Unit: Nachal Special Forces


Area: Hebron