Hebron
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Opinion | In Hawara we saw our true face

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

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

Kochavi’s Belated, Anemic Criticism Means Nothing

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

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

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

Israeli Vets Say Denying Palestinians Permits Used to Suppress Hunger Strikes

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The settlers always wanted us to move the Palestinians as far away as possible

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IN HAWARA WE SAW OUR TRUE FACE

Ben-Gvir and Smotrich would not wield the power they do if not for the generous indulgence people here have toward Jewish terror [...]

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Featured in the NYT op-docs: Six former soldiers who testified to Breaking the Silence speak candidly about their service in the occupied city of Hebron

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

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07 03 23

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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

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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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"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."

24 01 23

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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.

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"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."

05 09 22

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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.

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

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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

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Number: 78450

Unit: Paratroopers

Place: Nablus

Period: 2002

[ Checkpoints ][ Deaths ][ Rules of engagement ]

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

[ Settler violence ]

I suddenly understood that some of the things I did there are illegitimate,...

Number: 4322

Rank: Major

Unit: Artillery Corps

[ Routine ]

If a kid from the Jewish Community comes and starts beating up a Palestinian,...

Number: 4319

Rank: Major

Area: Hebron

[ Settlements ][ Settler violence ]

21 21 03 23 Public Tour South Hebron Hills https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/tours/4?tid=779 1

The settlers always wanted, there was this unwritten law, that the Palestinians...

Number: 4325

Rank: First Sergeant

Unit: Nahal, 50th Battalion

Area: Nablus area

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[ Abuse ][ Assassinations ][ Bribery ][ Checkpoints ][ Confirmation of killing ][ Curfews/closures ][ Deaths ][ Destruction of property ]

[ Human shields ][ Humiliation ][ Looting ][ Loss of livelihood ][ Routine ][ Rules of engagement ][ Settlements ][ Settler violence ]

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