Machsomwatch is a movement of Israeli women, peace activists from all sectors of Israeli society, who oppose the Israeli occupation and the denial of Palestinians' rights to move freely in their land. Since 2001, we have conducted daily observations of IDF checkpoints in the West Bank, along the separation fence and in the seamline zone, on the main roads and on out-of-the-way dirt roads, as well as in the offices of the Civil Administration (DCOs) and in military courts. We regularly document what we see and hear. The reports of these observations are published on the Machsomwatch site, and sent to public officials and elected representatives. Through the documentation which discloses the nature of everyday reality, we are attempting to influence public opinion in the country and in the world, and thus to bring to an end the destructive occupation, which causes damage to Israeli society as well as to Palestinian society.
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מתריע-זרקורים לדף הבית
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07.09.11In addition to cutting them off from their sources of livelihood in the West Bank, denying them water and demolishing their homes, another way to harass the Bedouin/Palestinian inhabitants of the Palestinian Jordan Valley is to conduct false arrests. Every few days, youngsters there are taken into...
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18.07.11In the photo: an erect, watchful ‘pillbox’ army post is proof of an existing checkpoint Monitoring the tendency to remove checkpoints throughout the West Bank in recent years has shown that reality on the ground is complex and not always concurrent with the sovereign power’s...
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08.05.11'The responsibility for criminal acts, including offenses carried out against laws that were enacted by authorities in an area occupied by the military, is personal responsibility. That is to say, you are not allowed to punish a person or a group of people because of deeds and offenses that...
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20.02.11We were not eye-witnesses of the events described in this Spotlight.Some of them were described by the victims and others we heard about in the military courts that we monitor, and where we are ear-witnesses of Palestinians’ testimonies and renditions by representatives of the Israeli...
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20.01.11We find ourselves living in a time when alienation, blindness, silencing, racism and militarism spread like an epidemic. Israel’s political leadership blows up existential fears to consolidate its rule using constant intimidation. This is how deligitimizing the other becomes a norm, as law...
