B'Tselem

B'Tselem claims 47 Palestinian families at risk of expulsion, IDF says homes built illegally

B'Tselem says water disruptions threaten 47 Palestinian families in the northern Jordan Valley; IDF sources cite security works and illegal construction.

Palestinians use their phones as Israeli settlers and military personnel stand outside a Palestinian home in Qusra, in the West Bank, August 15, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a video.
A HAMAS terrorist stands on a street during Eid al-Fitr in Gaza City.

New IAM investigation claims B'Tselem report ‘demonizes Israel by rebranding terrorists as minors’

Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron

An absurd theater: How ‘settler violence’ statistics fuel a false narrative - opinion

Armed Israeli soldiers, settlers, Palestinians, and reporters watch smoke rise during West Bank clashes in November 2025.

Israel using armed militias to ethnically cleanse the West Bank - opinion


Civil rights NGO urges indictment of IDF colonel who killed rock-thrower

A video of the shooting distributed at the time by B’Tselem went viral and brought about calls for Shomer’s prosecution.

Smashed windshield of IDF vehicle

B’Tselem: Israel does not compensate Palestinians for collateral damage

Israel has “taken measures to guarantee a nearly blanket exemption from its obligation under international law to pay compensation to Palestinians harmed by its security forces,” the report said.

Palestinians walk past a damaged car as they return to their house after filling containers with water from a public tap in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

Analysis: Azaria would have remained anonymous if not for viral video

“The fact that in 55 incidents no criminal investigation was considered necessary raises doubts about the implementation of Israel’s declared policy on investigating civilian fatalities.”

A STILL PHOTO from the famous video shows Sgt. Elor Azaria shooting an incapacitated terrorist in Hebron on March 24, 2016.

Working in complex realities, do NGOs do good, harm, or both?

NGOs are regularly scrutinized for their accountability to donors, but what about their accountability to the civil societies they are trying to help?

A B’Tselem researcher on the ground in east Jerusalem

Analysis: Elor Azaria, Israel, and America

The Jerusalem Post

Le rôle clair-obscur des ONG

Plongées dans des situations géopolitiques complexes, les organisations humanitaires doivent affronter certains dilemmes et engendrent parfois plus de mal que de bien

Dans les bureaux de l’ONG Chovrim Chtika à Tel-Aviv

Bennett backs banning 'anti-IDF organizations' from schools

Moalem-Refaeli said that the education system is meant to teach children to love their country, not destroy it.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett meets with pupils at the start school year

Senior UN official slams Israel for its treatment of B’Tselem

Lynk condemned Israel for its treatment of the left wing NGO B’Tselem, saying it is “intimidating human rights defenders”.

The United Nations headquarters

October 26, 2016: Bitan and B’Tselem

Letters

Exclusive: Bereaved families call Hebrew U. human rights program ‘anti-Israel’

There are a number of what they term “anti-Israel” NGOs on the list of organizations where students can intern, including B’Tselem.

HEBREW UNIVERSITY of Jerusalem students report for the first day of classes last year.