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11 Citation 18 March, the Israeli High Court of Justice allowed the state to demolish the home of the family of Dwayat, who used a bulldozer in an attack in Jerusalem last July.
His widow and two children live in the apartment, which is on the first floor of a building. As in previous cases of this kind, the justices accepted the state?s argument that demolition of the apartment will deter others from carrying out similar acts.
The justices approved the demolition, even though the state never contended that Dwayat?s family assisted him or knew of his plans.
From 1967 to 2005, Israel maintained a policy to demolish or seal houses in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a means to punish the families of Palestinians who had injured Israelis. The policy was based on the claim that, out of concern for their families, Palestinians would be deterred from carrying out attacks.
In implementing this policy, f, delicious.com
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Sharp rise in number of reports of soldiers harming Palestinian civilians - Haaretz - Israel News 1 Citation The number of IDF investigations into reports of soldiers harming Palestinian civilians in the West Bank has risen sharply in the last two years.
The IDF's Central Investigation Division investigated 47 cases in 2008 in which soldiers allegedly harmed Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. The number is almost double that of the previous year, when there were 26 investigations, and almost double again the number from 2006, when only 14 investigations were conducted.
Left-wing rights group B'Tselem reported last week an increase in the number of violent incidents by soldiers toward Palestinians in the West Bank since the IDF offensive in the Gaza Strip in January.
According to IDF statistics, 15 new investigations have been opened into incidents in the West Bank since the beginning of 2009., delicious.com
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Officer lambasts rising Jewish extremism - The National Newspaper 1 Citation Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent, delicious.com
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Head of Palestinian rights group banned from travelling to accept award - Haaretz - Israel News 1 Citation
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http://www.btselem.org/Download/200902_Operation_Cast_Lead_Position_paper_Eng.pdf 1 Citation
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1 Citation Suddenly, a military jeep appeared and four soldiers got out. Firas saw them approaching his father. There was a verbal exchange between them, but it was in Hebrew and Firas didn't understand what it was about.
A minute later, he saw the soldiers shoving his father down to the ground and handcuffing him from behind. The soldiers ordered Firas to go home. His father also told him to go; the frightened little boy started running the long distance back toward home.
That was the last time Firas saw his father alive. Handcuffed and on the ground, but alive.
Eyewitnesses told Temeizi's father Saker they'd seen soldiers kicking his bound and blindfolded son. The witnesses tried to intervene, but the soldiers shooed them away, brandishing their rifles.
A reputable field researcher for B'Tselem heard similar testimonies. Eventually, according to the witnesses, the soldiers put Temeizi on a jeep and drove off.
This was the last time the Palestinians saw him alive., delicious.com
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B'Tselem - Testimony of Roqaya al-Hazalin, April '09 1 Citation
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NPR: Israel's Barrier - Life Along Israel's Barrier 1 Citation
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1 Citation B'Tselem, one of Israel's most-respected rights groups, has given video cameras to around 160 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Already the project has produced shocking footage of abuses by Israeli troops and settlers, which has been broadcast on Israeli TV, as well as internationally
An Israeli filmmaker who served in the occupied West Bank as an infantry soldier with the Israeli military, started the project.
"I realised something was wrong with the narrative I knew," he says. "For Israelis there is a conspiracy of silence.
Nobody wants to know what is happening there." Soon he refused to serve in the West Bank and later left the country.
He returned and joined B'Tselem, where he realised the power of letting the Palestinians film their own lives.
In one case, a man filmed a settler in Hebron, last December, shooting and wounding three Palestinians at close range., delicious.com
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