Yesh Din

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference with Israeli settler leaders, at the Finiance Ministry, in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Has Israel crossed the annexation threshold in the West Bank?

Six ‘game-changing’ recent cabinet decisions may push the occupation past a tipping point toward permanent Israeli rule, says Yesh Din director Ziv Stahl.

By Dikla Taylor-Sheinman February 18, 2026

Community members in Khirbet Samra loading their flock into trucks before their departure on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Dikla Taylor-Sheinman)

Israeli settler violence is rapidly emptying Jordan Valley of Palestinians

Khirbet Samra is one of the last Palestinian shepherding communities in the West Bank’s eastern flank. State-backed settler militias are driving them out.

By Dikla Taylor-Sheinman and Georgia Gee March 19, 2025

The aftermath of an arson attack by Israeli settlers on a Palestinian house and car in Turmus Aya, occupied West Bank. (Yesh Din)

‘Like a nightmare’: 48 hours of Israeli settler terror

Exacting revenge for Jerusalem attacks, settlers across the West Bank set a house ablaze, attacked medical personnel, and erected a new outpost.

By Orly Noy January 31, 2023

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Israeli border policemen violently arrest a Palestinian protester during clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters in north Ramallah, near the Beit El checkpoint, occupied West Bank, December 22, 2017. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

The odds of a violent Israeli soldier facing charges? Under 1 percent

New data shows how the Israeli army's complaints mechanism serves as a facade of accountability when it comes to soldiers who harm Palestinians.

By Dan Owen December 29, 2022

Palestinians stand amidst the ruins of a neighborhood of Beit Hanoun which was destroyed by the recent Israeli bombardements , northern Gaza Strip, May 21, 2021. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills)

Thousands of homes destroyed in Gaza. Over 200 killed. Only one investigation

If Israeli officials had any inkling they would be held accountable, their decision to apply a lethal doctrine in Gaza would not have been made so readily.

By Dan Owen June 9, 2022

Israeli soldiers hold down prominent Palestinian activist Mohammad Khatib during the olive harvest near a settlement outpost established on Palestinian land in the Salfit area of the West Bank, October 11, 2021. (Matan Golan)

Israeli soldiers beat, arrest Palestinian activist during olive harvest

Mohammed Khatib was brutally arrested with two left-wing Israelis while trying to protect Palestinian farmers from settler and army violence.

By Oren Ziv October 12, 2021

Israeli soldiers raid a Palestinian house as hundreds of demonstrators march in the West Bank city of Hebron calling to open Shuhada Street, February 20, 2019. (Activestills.org)

‘I can’t fall asleep’: The trauma of Israeli raids on Palestinian homes

A new report by human rights groups highlights the arbitrary nature and psychological harm of the Israeli army's home invasions on Palestinian families.

By Oren Ziv December 2, 2020

Israeli human rights lawyer and Yesh Din legal counsel Michael Sfard. (Oren Ziv)

‘An illegitimate regime’: How a top rights group shed Israeli myths to recognize apartheid

In an exclusive interview, human rights lawyer Michael Sfard explains what led Yesh Din to charge Israel with the crime of apartheid in the West Bank.

By Amjad Iraqi July 9, 2020

Amer Abu Hijleh near the pool that settlers built on his land in the occupied West Bank. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills)

Settlers trespass on Palestinian land to build a pool for their children

Under COVID-19 lockdown, Amer Abu Hijleh discovered settlers were digging a hole on his land. While Israeli forces prevented his access to the area, the hole became a pool.

By Ahmad Al-Bazz July 7, 2020

Amiram Ben-Uliel, who was charged with murder over the Duma arson attack in July 2015, arrives to hear his verdict at the Lod District Court, May 18, 2020. (Flash90)

Convicting Jewish terrorists is the exception that proves the rule

The conviction of a Jewish extremist does not erase the fact that Israel turns a blind eye to its systemic violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

By Ziv Stahl and Gilad Grossman May 20, 2020

Subhiyeh Abu Rahmeh cries near the memorial monument for her son, Bassem, who in a 2009 protest was shot and killed with a high-velocity tear gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier, Bil'in, West Bank, October 4, 2013. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

No justice for Bil’in Palestinian activist shot dead by Israeli soldier

Nearly a decade after an Israeli soldier killed Bassem Abu Rahmeh while he was nonviolently protesting in Bil’in, Israel’s High Court decides once and for all that his killer will never see the inside of a courtroom. More than nine years after an Israeli soldier killed Palestinian activist Bassem Abu Rahmeh at a protest in…

By Henriette Chacar September 18, 2018

Samir Awad is evacuated for medical treatment after being shot in the back of the neck by Israeli soldiers, January 13, 2013. (Nader Morar/B’Tselem). Awad later died from his wounds.

Charged with killing Palestinian teen, two soldiers to walk free

Israeli soldiers shot 16-year-old Samir Awad eight times in the back, killing him. After a two-year delay, they were finally indicted. Now, five years after the killing, the prosecution is dropping the charges against them. Indictments against two former Israeli soldiers charged with killing an unarmed Palestinian teenager will be dropped, the state prosecutor announced Monday.…

By Joshua Leifer June 4, 2018

An Israeli soldier checks the ID of a Palestinian man the Old City of Hebron, West Bank, January 14, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

The well-oiled legal machine that enables IDF violence

The majority of complaints by Palestinians about violence by Israeli soldiers go nowhere, and when they do, it can take over a year for the military prosecution to decide whether to even open an investigation. In his latest article, my colleague Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man described the way in which Israel’s civilian and military court system is used as…

By Orly Noy June 1, 2018