On the evening of Friday, 20 June 2008, three settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds near the Susiya settlement in the Southern Hebron Hills. Nasser a-Nawaj'ah, a B'Tselem fieldworker, filmed the assault and the failure of soldiers on the scene to protect the shepherds. Although filming the incident was lawful, one of the soldiers hit a-Nawaj'ah and stole the video cassette.

The Israeli police have arrested two settlers suspected of attacking Palestinians in Khirbet Susiya. On 8 June '08, four masked settlers with clubs severely beat three members of the a-Nawaj'ah family who were grazing their flock on private Palestinian land. A fourth member filmed part of the assault with a B'Tselem camera.

On 10 June 2008, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitioned the High Court of Justice to order the army to cancel its prohibition on West Bank Palestinians’ access to the northern beaches of the Dead Sea, which lie inside the West Bank.

Human rights organizations have petitioned the High Court of Justice to allow Gaza Strip residents to visit their relatives being held in prisons and in detention in Israel. The prohibition on visits, which has been in effect for the past year, infringes the fundamental right of relatives and prisoners to family life and breaches Israeli and international law.

On 8 June '08, four masked settlers clubbed three of members of the Nawaj'ah family, who were grazing their flock on private Palestinian lands south of the Susiya settlement. The victims suffered severe bruises and bleeding and required hospitalization. The family captured the beginning of the attack with a video camera handed out by B'Tselem's "Shooting Back" project.

Settlers tried to prevent residents of 'Asira al-Qibliya from putting out a fire in their fields. B'Tselem wrote to the police and the army demanding that they investigate the suspicion of arson and attacks perpetrated by soldiers and settlers throughout the incident.

In February 2008, Fawziyeh a-Dark suffered a heart attack and died after soldiers prevented her passage to hospital. Now, her husband gives B’Tselem a video testimony of the events leading up to her death.

B'Tselem severely condemns the Palestinian mortar fire today (5.6.08) on Kibbutz Nir Oz, in the south of Israel, which killed an Israeli civilian and wounded four others.

In a letter to the head of the Israel Security Agency B'Tselem protested the summoning of Salah Haj Yihya, head of medical clinics of Physicians for Human Rights, for questioning by the ISA.

Five Palestinian landowners and human rights organizations Yesh Din and B'Tselem claim in first petition of its kind: Ofra is an illegal outpost built mostly on private land.

Yuval Salomon from Kibbut Or Haner describes the fear and uncertainty of life near the Gaza Strip.

Israel refuses to provide a solution for residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip whose parents did not register them in the population registry at birth. Living without ID cards, these persons are often barred from realizing basic rights such as the right to work, to education, to family life, and more.

B'Tselem wrote to the Justice Ministry to protest its response to the World Bank's report on the effects on the Palestinian economy resulting from Israel's restrictions on movement in the West Bank. The response included distorted and misleading data regarding several issues, including roads forbidden to Palestinians and planning and building in Area C.

Nufuz al-Husni 44, a mother of six, suffers from intestinal cancer, for which she had been treated in Israel. In February 2008, she sought to return to Ichilov Hospital, in Tel Aviv, for treatment, but Israeli officials have not allowed her to enter the country.

Since the end of the Second Lebanon War, 33 civilians have been killed and hundreds wounded by cluster bombs. Israel’s responsibility for these casualties and lessons from the past require Israel to play a significant role in drafting international convention

In light of the recent escalation in violence around the Gaza Strip, including a Grad rocket strike on a mall in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem has repeated its demand that all parties protect civilians from the fighting.

The health situation in the Gaza Strip has been steadily deteriorating since Israel tightened its siege on the area in June 2007. The closure of all entrances and exits from Gaza has barred patients from receiving treatments unavailable within Gaza and has caused a grave dearth of medical supplies.

Ya'akov and Lilach Swisa, a disabled couple, struggle with unemployment and accessibility problems to raise their children under the threat of rocket fire in Sderot.

Samira a-Daghmeh, 13, told B'Tselem that soldiers blew up the door to the family's home in the Gaza Strip while her mother and siblings were inside, killing her mother. Soldiers stayed in the home for several hours without evacuating her to a hospital, and then exited the house, leaving her body with her children.

Following a letter from B'Tselem, the Military Police has opened an investigation into an incident that took place on 14 March, in which an army officer fired a rubber-coated steel bullet at a demonstrator in the village of Bil’in, wounding him.

B'Tselem strongly condemns the Qassam rocket fire at the Israeli community of Yesha in the south of Israel, which killed an Israeli civilian. Attacks aimed at civilians are immoral, inhuman, and illegal.

B'Tselem severely condemns the Palestinian mortar fire on Kibutz Kfar 'Aza, in the south of Israel, which yesterday (9 May 08) killed an Israeli civilian and wounded others. Attacks aimed at civilians are immoral, inhuman, and illegal.

B'Tselem repeated its call to the Israeli army's Judge Advocate General to open a Military Police investigation into the death of five members of the Abu Me'tiq family in Beit Hanun on 28 April.

B'Tselem's investigation indicates that an Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at armed Palestinians, the second of which landed about one meter from the gate of the Abu Me'tiq family's house.

The Jerusalem District Court has sentenced a border policeman to 6½ years’ imprisonment for killing ‘Imran Abu Hamdiyeh in 2002. The policeman, along with three others, threw Abu Hamdiyeh from a speeding jeep after they had abducted, beaten, and abused him. The affair was exposed by B'Tselem and al-Haq.

Despite its claims of removing physical obstructions to "ease" movement, Israel continues to impose sweeping restrictions on Palestinian movement in the West Bank.

B'Tselem severely condemns the Palestinian terror attack that took place in the Nitzanei Shalom industrial zone. Attacks aimed at civilians are immoral, inhuman, and illegal.

Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana'a was killed by a Flechette shell. B'Tselem demands that the Israeli Army's Judge Advocate General order the immediate cessation of the use of this prohibited weapon in the Gaza Strip, and open a criminal investigation of the event.

Five Human Rights organizations filed a petition to the High Court of Justice demanding the Court prohibit the use of family members by the GSS to pressure interrogees

B'Tselem severely condemns the Palestinian terror attack that took place in a fuel depot at Nahal Oz, on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Attacks aimed at civilians are immoral, inhuman, and illegal.

A year ago, B'Tselem launched "Shooting Back", a video advocacy project focusing on the Occupied Territories. We give out video cameras to Palestinians who live in high-conflict areas, so that they can document violations of their human rights and seek redress. Sample footage is now available on the website.

The Civil Administration delivered orders to demolish two houses in Far’un that were built several years before the Separation Barrier. In 2007, Israel demolished seven houses in the village, which has been harmed by the barrier in any event.

Authorities must investigate the killing of four Palestinians defined by Israel as "wanted persons", on 12 March 2008. B'Tselem's investigation raises the suspicion that security forces executed the four in flagrant violation of a High Court ruling, which prohibits intentionally killing Palestinians taking part in hostilities when they can be arrested.

On 11 March 2008, the Department for Investigation of Police arrested two policemen from the Ma’ale Adumim police station. The two are suspected of severely abusing a Palestinian from al-‘Eizariya, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The arrest followed a complaint made by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel.

Since the new settlement was established in the A-Ras neighborhood, attacks on Palestinian residents and violation of their rights have increased. Families have had to put up protective fences to prevent settlers from invading and attacking their homes.

B'Tselem wrote to the Attorney General demanding that he prevent the planned demolition. The declared objective of this policy is to harm innocent persons – relatives of suspected perpetrators of attacks, who are not themselves accused of any crime.

Route 443 serves Israeli commuters traveling between the two largest cities in Israel – Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The road runs through the West Bank, but Palestinians are strictly prohibited from using it.

B'Tselem severely condemns the Palestinian terror attack that took place in a yeshiva (religious school) in Jerusalem, in which 8 Israeli civilians, including 4 minors were killed and many other persons were injured. Attacks aimed at civilians are immoral, inhuman, and illegal.

Route 443 is the main traffic artery south of Ramallah District. Since 2002, the army has prohibited Palestinians from using the road, using security arguments. Now the road, which links Jerusalem and the Tel-Aviv area, serves only Israelis.

On 6 January 2008, a thirteen-year-old girl from the village of Nu’man touched the separation barrier that surrounds the village during an argument with her friend. Border Police officers came to the village, where they acted in a violent and frightening manner.

According to B'Tselem figures, from 27 February to the afternoon of 3 March, 106 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip. Contrary to the Chief of Staff's contention that ninety percent were armed, at least fifty-four of the dead (twenty-five of them minors) did not take part in the hostilities. In addition, at least forty-six minors were wounded.

On 7 February 2008, soldiers fired a missile that landed in the yard of an agricultural school in Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip. In his testimony to B'Tselem, one of the school's students described how the missile, which struck at the beginning of classes, killed a teacher and wounded him and two of his cousins.

B'Tselem expressed its grave concern following the renewed fighting in Gaza. During the first 2 months of 2008, Israeli security forces killed 146 Palestinians. At least 42 did not participate in the fighting when killed, and 11 were minors. Palestinians killed 2 Israeli civilians, and one member of the Israeli security forces.

On 27 Feb. 2008 Palestinian organizations fired dozens of rockets at the western Negev and the southern coastal plain of Israel. The rocket fire killed a student at Sapir College, and wounded others. According to media reports, at least one rocket landed near Barzilai Hospital, in Ashkelon.

On 14 February 2008, the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court sentenced two Border Police officers to a four months' suspended prison term and payment of NIS 20,000 compensation for assault causing actual bodily harm and for making threats. On February 2005, while serving at the Container checkpoint, in the Bethlehem area, the two men assaulted taxi driver 'Imad Shalaldah.

On 14 February 2008, Fawaziyeh a-Dark suffered a heart attack. Soldiers at a flying checkpoint prevented the passage of the ambulance summoned for her. When her husband tried to take her by taxi, soldiers at another checkpoint blocked their passage. He was forced to take her home, by which time she died.

In 1967 Israel annexed the village of Nu'man to its territory without recognizing the residents. Today Israel imposes harsh restrcitions preventing them from living a normal life.

Since February 5, Israel has imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the northern West Bank (Jenin, Nablus and Tulkarm districts) and prevents all Palestinian men between the ages of 16-35 from leaving this area without special permits, which are rarely granted.

In late 2007, Israel closed two crossings that Palestinians used to enter Israel from the southern West Bank. Since then, thousands of Palestinians working in Israel have had to spend half the night in long lines at the three crossings that remain open.

B'Tselem decries the High Court’s decision allowing reduction in the supply of electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip.

On 4 Jan. 08, Border Police fired rubber-coated metal bullets at Ahmad Abu Hantash, a father of two. Hantash died on 23 Jan. B'Tselem's investigation indicates that the police officers' lives were not in danger. B'Tselem demands a thorough investigation of the incident.

B'Tselem strongly condemns the attack in Dimona by Palestinian militants, in which one Israeli civilian was killed. Attacks aimed at civilians are immoral, inhuman, and illegal.

On 17 January 2008, three Palestinian high-school students from Beit Iksa went to the nearby Ramot neighborhood looking for work. According to the testimony of two of them, police appeared, assaulted them, and then arrested them and took them to the police station.

The restrictions placed on Issa Amro, B'Tselem’s fieldworker in Hebron, were cancelled yesterday [23 January]. On Saturday, soldiers assaulted and arrested Amro while he was filming settlers’ disturbances in the Wadi Hasin neighborhood, in the eastern part of Hebron.

Although the toppling of the fence at the Egyptian border temporarily eased the stranglehold, the million and a half residents of Gaza still depend almost entirely on importation of goods, fuel, and electricity through crossings controlled by Israel. The Siege on Gaza is illegal, improper, and immoral.

A bill passed preliminary reading in the Knesset, empowering the Minister of Public Security to prohibit relatives and humanitarian workers from visiting security prisoners if they belong to organizations that hold an Israeli citizen captive without permitting visits by state representatives, humanitarian workers or relatives.

The Palestinian Electric Company has had to shut down Gaza's power station after it ran out of industrial diesel. Last week, Israel's stopped all fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip.

Soldiers assaulted and arrested Issa ‘Amro, a B'Tselem fieldworker, in Hebron on Saturday, 19 Jan. 2008. ‘Amro was arrested while filming a disturbance by settlers in the Wadi Hsein neighborhood in East Hebron.

Attacks aimed at civilians undermine all rules of morality and law. Specifically, the intentional killing of civilians is considered a "grave breach" of international humanitarian law and a war crime. Whatever the circumstances, such acts are unjustifiable.

Following the cutback, which began in October, the Gaza power station had to severely cut back the supply of electricity, impairing electricity supply to residents and vital facilities.

In the Cabinet meeting, the Head of the ISA said that Israel has killed 1,000 terrorists in the Gaza Strip in the past two years. The total number of Palestinians killed in this period is actually 816, and this includes 152 minors as well as many women and men uninvolved in the hostilities.

Both women are from 'Azzun 'Atmah, a village cut off from the West Bank by the Separation Barrier. In 2007, a critically wounded man from the village died in similar circumstances. The gate remains closed at night, despite the army's promise to keep it open.