UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged Egypt to investigate the shootings of 60 unarmed migrants since July 2007 on the Egyptian side of the Egypt-Israeli border. The majority of those...
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Israel begins moving West Bank security barrier under court order
Israel has begun to reroute a segment of its West Bank security barrier , said Ministry of Defense spokesperson Shlomo Dror on Thursday. The modifications, which may not be completed until...
Israel's new southern wall increases isolation from Arab neighbors
Ilan Pappe : "The building of the separation wall between Israel and the West Bank in 2001 and before that the construction of the fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel in 1994, were...
Israel to build barrier along Egypt border to combat terrorism, illegal immigration
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced the construction of 70 miles of fence along Israel's border with Egypt in order to combat terrorism and illegal immigration. In explaining the purpose for...
Israel high court rules against segregation of West Bank road
The Supreme Court of Israel on Thursday ruled against a military order prohibiting Palestinians from traveling on a central West Bank road. Finding in favor of a petition submitted...
Wendy Doernberg, Pitt Law '11, studied Israeli law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and lived in Jerusalem for 6 months...Unlike the United States, Israel has yet to adopt a formal written constitution. Even some of the laws which form...
Israel high court orders re-routing of West Bank security barrier
The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the government must change the proposed route for its West Bank security barrier , finding that the current plan encroaches too much on Palestinian territory....
Five Palestinians represented by Israeli rights group Yesh Din filed suit against the State of Israel seeking $427,000 in damages for failing to protect Palestinian-owned land in the West Bank from trespassers and...
Report accuses Israel of excluding Palestinians from West Bank settlement areas
A report released Thursday by B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories alleges that Israeli security policies have resulted in Palestinians being prevented from accessing land adjacent to...
Israel West Bank settlement plan 'contravenes international law': UN SG
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released a statement Tuesday asserting that Israeli plans to expand settlements in the West Bank violate international law. The statement was delivered by Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process...