B'Tselem

NGO B’Tselem report presents baseless claims of Israel dismantling Palestinian life in West Bank

WEST BANK AFFAIRS: B’Tselem accuses Israel of systematically dismantling Palestinian life in the West Bank, as Israel calls its central claim baseless.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER, YONAH JEREMY BOB
AN ISRAELI flag flies near the West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron, with a mosque in the Palestinian village of Kafr Lakif in the background. B’Tselem’s new report argues that Israel is making Jewish control of the West Bank increasingly irreversible, an allegation Israel and the IDF reject.
Palestinians use their phones as Israeli settlers and military personnel stand outside a Palestinian home in Qusra, in the West Bank, August 15, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a video.

B'Tselem claims 47 Palestinian families at risk of expulsion, IDF says homes built illegally

B'Tselem says water disruptions threaten 47 Palestinian families in the northern Jordan Valley; IDF sources cite security works and illegal construction.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, JONAH DAVIDOV
A HAMAS terrorist stands on a street during Eid al-Fitr in Gaza City.

New IAM investigation claims B'Tselem report ‘demonizes Israel by rebranding terrorists as minors’

According to the IAM investigation, B'Tselem's report contained internal discrepancies in which its text conflicted with its own data charts.

|ByALEX CARSON
Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron

An absurd theater: How ‘settler violence’ statistics fuel a false narrative - opinion

What exactly are they counting when they tally up “settler violence?” I’ve seen the reports, and I’ve lived the reality. The numbers aren’t just inflated, they’re ridiculous.

|ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI

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.

MARCH 5, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

FEBRUARY 23, 2019ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

FEBRUARY 11, 2019ByURI BOLLAG
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.

JANUARY 17, 2019ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Palestinians run from Israeli forces in Ramallah, January 9, 2019

Rights groups accuse Israel of coverup in deaths of Gaza teens

“Any allegations that the IDF knowingly distorted or edited video footage are totally baseless and false.”

DECEMBER 18, 2018BySAM SOKOL/JTA
A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border fence, in the southern Gaza Strip December 14, 2018.

Likud MK calls on attorney general to dismantle B'Tselem

B’Tselem Director-General Hagai El-Ad spoke in front of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

OCTOBER 21, 2018ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of B'Tselem, a leading Israeli human rights organisation, poses in his office in Jerusalem December 16, 2015

Hilik Bar complains to police about Oren Hazan's post about B'Tselem head

“Hazan has even passed his own dangerous nadir and reached a new low.”

OCTOBER 21, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN
MK Oren Hazan

WATCH LIVE: B'Tselem address U.N. Security Council on Gaza, Khan al-Ahmar

Haggai Elad is expected to speak on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, consequent to the Israeli-imposed siege and blockade of the Strip.

OCTOBER 18, 2018ByBRYNN RIESENBERG
The United Nations Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East

B’Tselem head: I’m not a traitor; Israeli U.N. envoy: You’re a collaborator

Hagai El-Ad is expected to speak on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, consequent to the Israeli-imposed siege and blockade of the Strip.

OCTOBER 18, 2018ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
B’Tselem’s Director-General Hagai El-Ad adresses the UN Security Council, October 18th, 2018

Netanyahu: B’Tselem is a disgrace

PM pledges to appoint envoy to the Christian world.

OCTOBER 14, 2018ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Netanyahu at the 2018 Christian Media Summit