B'Tselem

Israel using armed militias to ethnically cleanse the West Bank - opinion

B’Tselem warns that organized, state-backed settler militias are driving Palestinians from their land with violent attacks across the West Bank.

Armed Israeli soldiers, settlers, Palestinians, and reporters watch smoke rise during West Bank clashes in November 2025.
 IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip, July 17, 2025.

Netanyahu discussed partial Gaza annexation if hostage talks stall, source tells 'Post' - exclusive

 Palestinians carry aid supplies in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025; illustrative.

Israeli human rights groups accuse Netanyahu's government of Gaza genocide in new report

Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon at the UN Security Council on September 4th 2024

B'Tselem's Yuli Novak: 'Israeli gov't aims to promote Jewish supremacy over entire territory'


As ICC bears down, NGOs dispute how many civilians were killed by the IDF

B'Tselem claims that 54% of those killed in Gaza in 2019 were civilians, while the Meir Amit Center says 90% were terrorists or affiliated with terror groups.

Smoke rises as Palestinians take part in a protest marking the 71st anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ (the ‘catastrophe’ that they view as resulting from the creation of Israel in 1948) at the Israel-Gaza border fence on May 15

Encountering Peace: Israeli impunity

The lack of public discourse in Israel on the low value of Palestinian lives further demonstrates a complete lack of humanity that has developed in Israel over too many years of occupation.

‘WE AT Yesh Din believe that the moral and proper thing to do today is to continue to urge and remind the government and the people of Israel that the occupation must end – and that millions of people denied civil rights for decades must be allowed to exercise their natural rights,’ writes the autho

Settler suspended from IDF after caught setting Palestinian field alight

The soldier was home on a weekend leave from the military when the incident occurred near the Yitzhar settlement.

Settlers and IDF soldiers stand on a hilltop outside the Yitzhar settlement

Hebrew U. prof accused of ‘systematic misinformation,’ political bias

External lecturers labeled Israel a ‘fascist’ state, while Prof. Golan described the work of a student who disagreed with her narrative ‘unpleasant and unintelligent’

 Hebrew University students upset by the incident continued to protest Wednesday afternoon.

Yesh Din: Settlers threw stones at home in Palestinian village of Urif

"Soldiers who arrived to the incident began firing tear gas and live ammunition at the Palestinian youths and did not arrest the group of settlers who had rioted inside the village," Yesh Din said.

Settlers throw stones at Urif

Palestinians killed 5 minutes after crashing into IDF car - B'Tselem

Human rights organization says 9 gunshots were fired close to 5 minutes after a Palestinian car drove into a military vehicle in early March.

PALESTINIANS WAIT at an IDF checkpoint in the West Bank late last year.

IfNotNow's Simone Zimmerman new B’Tselem U.S. director

Zimmerman was named one of 'The Jerusalem Post's "50 Most Influential Jews," this past Jewish New Year, and is well-known for co-founding the organization IfNotNow.

Simone Zimmerman, a co-founder of If Not Now,

UN investigators urge Netanyahu to protect B’Tselem

The rapporteurs sent the letter to Netanyahu in December, but was made public by the UN only this week.

Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of B'Tselem, a leading Israeli human rights organisation, poses in his office in Jerusalem December 16, 2015. An ultra-nationalist Israeli group has published a video accusing the heads of four of Israel's leading human rights organizations, including "B'Tselem", of b

Dutch government financed B'Tselem report attacking Supreme Court

The Dutch government not only financed the report but also specified the report's goals and what it aimed to create with it.

A Jewish settler walks at the Jewish settlement outpost of Adei Ad B in the West Bank

B'Tselem says 290 Palestinians killed by IDF fire in 2018

Majority of Palestinians killed were in the Gaza Strip during weekly Great Return Marches protests.

Palestinians run from Israeli forces in Ramallah, January 9, 2019