News and Analysis

  B’Tselem views with great severity the High Court’s decision, given on 30 January 2008, to reject the petition against Israel’s plan to reduce supply of electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip, which has already been in force for several months. The petition was filed by Palestinian residents of Gaza and ten Israeli and…

How is Israel able to strangle the Gaza Strip when there is supposed to be an international crossing between Gaza and Egypt not controlled by Israelis? Certainly, free movement was the promise held out in the comprehensive Agreement on Movement and Access, signed more than two years ago by Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).…

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have started enforcing stringent restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, which hasn’t witnessed such restrictions in years. It has become noticeable that movement between different West Bank governorates is nearly impossible. This renewed siege has led to the death of a Palestinian woman by heart attack…

Bethlehem / Najib Farraj – Minors are the latest target of Israeli arrest campaigns, as reported by the Palestinian Prisoner Society. On a daily basis school and universities students, and youth in general, are put in Israeli prisons. Many are not afforded a charge or trial, held indefinitely under the term “Administrative Detention.” Every week…

Mohammed Khalid / PNN – After days of protest during which Palestinian flower growers in the Gaza Strip dumped their creations at the feet of the closed borders, those flowers that were intended for Valentine’s Day have become food for sheep and cows. The flowers could not be exported to Europe where they normally go…