Shin Bet

A high school principal arranges her classroom for the reopening of the school in Jerusalem, February 10 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teachers or terrorists? Far-right MKs want the Shin Bet to police schools

A bill authorizing Israel's security service to hire and fire teachers, a policy long carried out in Arab schools, is so extreme that even the Shin Bet opposes it.

By Gil Gertel July 26, 2023

Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet intelligence services, speaks at the annual Cyber Week conference, Tel Aviv University, June 27, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

When Israel’s Shin Bet chief embraces fake news

Ronen Bar, the head of Israel's domestic intelligence, spread disinformation in order to portray Palestinians as terrorists and Jews as innocents.

By Meron Rapoport and Oren Ziv July 2, 2023

Members of the Palestinian community protest against the violence in their community, outside the Knesset, May 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Why Israeli police aren’t the solution to Palestinian crime

The fixation on policing has funneled us into a debate that avoids the real roots of the crisis of gun violence among Palestinian citizens of Israel.

By Amjad Iraqi June 18, 2023

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Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, head of the European Union’s mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, visits Huwara in the occupied West Bank following the settler pogrom in the town earlier in the week, March 3, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

How not to show solidarity with the families of Huwara

Thousands donated to a crowdfunder set up by an Israeli politician. But its militaristic framing and implementation are likely to do more harm than good.

By Orly Noy March 3, 2023

Abdul Mohsen Shalaldeh, Palestinian journalist. (Courtesy)

‘I asked if he broke into my home to stop me from being a journalist’

Israeli forces arrested Abdul Mohsen Shalaldeh in his house at night, frightening his family, before interrogating him about his reporting.

By Basel Adra February 5, 2023

Israeli police arrest Palestinian citizens as armed settlers and police forces patrol the city of Lod/Lyd, May 13, 2021. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

How Akka’s Palestinians fought back against Israel’s mass arrest campaign

Israeli police launched a repressive operation against Palestinian citizens following last year's violence in 'mixed cities.' Abandoned by local leaders, activists built their own initiatives to support detainees and their families.

By Vera Sajrawi November 28, 2022

Al-Haq's executive director Shawan Jabarin, next to Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, speaks to the media after the Israeli army raided the offices of several Palestinian NGOs, Ramallah, the West Bank, August 18, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

‘You will pay the price’: Shin Bet threatens Palestinian NGO directors

Undeterred by foreign criticism, Israel warns heads of two human rights groups of imprisonment and prosecution days after raiding their offices.

By Oren Ziv August 22, 2022

Amal Nakhleh shows a photo from his arrest, with his hands bound in handcuffs, Ramallah, occupied West Bank, May 24, 2022. (Yuval Abraham)

‘His childhood disappeared’: A Palestinian teen’s nightmare in Israeli detention

An Israeli military court ordered his release on medical grounds. Then the Shin Bet locked him up for another 16 months without charge.

By Yuval Abraham June 16, 2022

Amar Shafiq Abu Afifa. (Courtesy of the Abu Afifa family)

‘We were like brothers’: Refugee camp reels after army shoots Palestinian on hike

Amar Shafiq Abu Afifa was out strolling when Israeli soldiers gave chase and shot him in the head, adding to a grim toll suffered by al-Arroub refugee camp.

By Yuval Abraham March 10, 2022

An Israeli soldier seen during an army raid on the Palestinian village of Burqa in the West Bank next to a spray-painted symbol of The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). (Oren Ziv)

Israel’s new secret document still fails to tie Palestinian NGOs to ‘terrorism’

+972 and Local Call have obtained a new report sent to foreign diplomats in a fresh attempt to justify outlawing six Palestinian civil society groups. The document, which is full of unsubstantiated claims, has left Europe's leaders unconvinced.

By Oren Ziv and Yuval Abraham January 13, 2022

A Palestinian laborer crosses into Israel through a breach in the separation barrier, near the Metar checkpoint, West Bank. (Rachel Shor)

They should have been lawyers. Instead they’re at Israeli construction sites

A generation of Palestinian graduates find that despite their degrees, their only way to earn a living under occupation is to work construction in Israel.

By Basel Adra November 7, 2021

Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers taking part in a raid on the West Bank city of Hebron, June 18, 2014. (Oren Ziv)

Secret Israeli dossier provides no proof for declaring Palestinian NGOs ‘terrorists’

Israel hoped a classified Shin Bet document would convince European governments to stop funding Palestinian rights groups. +972 and Local Call got hold of the dossier's testimonies — and found no real evidence to justify Israel's claims.

By Yuval Abraham, Oren Ziv and Meron Rapoport November 4, 2021

Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel protest in Tel Aviv against police inaction and surging crime and violence in Arab communities, March 13, 2021. (Flash90)

Why Israel wants Palestinians to have guns

From criminal gangs in Lyd to security forces in Ramallah, Palestinians who turn their guns on each other are serving Israel's apartheid rule.

By Rami Younis September 8, 2021