Firing Area 918: This is good news, but will it make a difference?

On May 4, the day before Israel’s 74th Independence Day (Yom Haatzma’ut), the Supreme Court handed down a decision in a case that has long been awaited: the legality or illegality of the closure of land in the South Hebron Hills referred to as Firing Area 918, and the expulsion of the population that has […]

El-Mufaqara, Avigayil, and Havat Maon: Where did my anger get me?

This is a story borne out of anger. I was angry at the apparent one-sidedness of the reporting at what happened at el-Mufaqara and the way it seemed everyone I knew accepted the media reports as unadulterated truth. It is a story of how I found a crack in the wall and did not give […]

Preparations for a Bloody Shabbat . . . Foiled!

Basel Adra, a very prolific B’Tselem “journalist” and activist bemoaned the fact that yesterday the IDF entered his village, a-Tuwani, and searched all the houses: This morning the occupation forces stormed My village Tuwani closed all the entrance. And started searching the houses. Damaged the things in their and stop me and another activists from […]