Spotlight highlights Checkpoint events characteristic of the policy of the occupation: the systematic repudiation of basic human rights in the occupied territories. For Palestinians, reality is a complicated tangle of problems (survival in the everyday, education, health, making a living…) that cannot be solved because the Israeli occupation is conducted by enforcing countless inhuman bans. The Spotlights rely on collections of relevant reports from the field.
Spotlights
07.09.11
In 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...
18.07.11
In 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...
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...
20.02.11
We 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...
20.01.11
We 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...
08.12.10
Recruiting denouncers within a population under occupation is an ancient and effective means of control, providing the occupier with a dual achievement: 1) enlarging the circle of criminals within the occupied society, some of them in prison and most of them released but threatened and stained by...
07.11.10
In the guise of enforcing the law, justifying itself by claims of “security,” the Israeli regime prepares to take over Palestinian lands, dispossessing and expelling their owners, in order to implement its program for judaizing Jerusalem based on this principle: more territory...