“The torture of Palestinian detainees is part of a wider Israeli assault on Palestinian life. In Gaza, the genocide continues. In the West Bank, violence by the military and of settler militias is intensifying, displacing entire Palestinian communities families from their land. In detention facilities, Palestinians are systematically tortured. The pattern is the same throughout: escalating violence, the removal of restraints, and the normalization of a system that strips Palestinians of protection” writes Yuli Novak, executive director of B’Tselem, in an Op-ed for @guardian
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With temperatures already reaching 34°C this week, residents of the Gaza Strip are facing extreme heat with no regular access to water. Over two and a half years of genocidal assault, the Israeli military has systematically destroyed more than 84% of the Strip’s water and sanitation infrastructure, leading to the total collapse of basic living systems.
Even now, seven months after the “ceasefire” agreement came into effect, Israel continues to block the entry of essential equipment needed for reconstruction. The military is preventing the entry of filtration systems, tanks and construction materials required to operate these systems, thereby preventing any possibility of restoring healthcare and water systems for millions of people.
In the displacement camps, the reality is unbearable. Families are forced to live alongside flowing sewage and piles of garbage accumulating between the tents. Due to the severe shortage, displaced people are routinely forced to use contaminated, undrinkable water. Many report having to forgo bathing or cooking to save the little clean water they have for drinking.
The deadly combination of heat, pollution and lack of basic hygiene conditions is leading to the spread of severe skin and intestinal diseases. The few remaining water sources become contaminated more quickly in high temperatures, causing dehydration and acute diarrhea, especially among children. Experts estimate that the combined damage to infrastructure led to thousands of indirect deaths already in the first year of the assault.
By continuing to block humanitarian aid and deliberately destroy life-sustaining infrastructure, Israel is perpetuating conditions in Gaza that are unfit for human habitation.
The genocide in the Gaza Strip continues.
Jiljilya village, east of Ramallah, 13 May 2026
A Palestinian child killed and at least 4 people injured in a coordinated military and settler militia attack
The assailants also stole hundreds of sheep and goats and tractors. The military detained at least 3 of the Palestinian livestock owners.
Israel operates a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Our reports, Welcome to Hell and Living Hell, exposed a reality of severe violence, starvation and torture inside detention facilities.
The testimony of Muhammad Khader, a father of five who was arrested at a school in Jabalya and held at the Sde Teiman detention facility, is a shocking reminder of Israel’s methods.
Sleep deprivation, systematic starvation and denial of medical treatment are part of a deliberate practice implemented in all detention facilities where Palestinians are held. Some detainees suffer sexual assaults. At least 88 Palestinians have died in these facilities since October 2023 as a result of inhuman conditions and severe violence.
These practices have the full support of Israel’s political leadership, which takes pride in violating Palestinian prisoners’ rights and the dire detention conditions they are subjected to. Despite mounting evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the international community continues to stand by and allow Israel to run torture camps with impunity.
Links to the full report in our bio.
Israel is running a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Our reports, Welcome to Hell and Living Hell, extensively documented a reality of extreme violence, starvation, and torture.
Palestinian prisoners are subjected to severe violence, deliberate humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care, and abuse in every facility where they are held.
These abusive practices are fully backed by the political leadership, which openly boasts about the harsh prison conditions. Some inmates are subjected to severe sexual assaults.
At least 88 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention facilities since October 2023 as a result of inhumane conditions, violence, starvation, and the denial of medical treatment.
Despite the extensive evidence, media investigations, and reports issued by Israeli and international organizations documenting torture in Israeli prisons, the international community continues to stand by and allow Israel to commit crimes against the Palestinian people.
Links to the full report in our bio.
What should Israelis do in the face of the genocide that Israel is perpetrating in Gaza? Does the Israeli public have a special responsibility?
Yuli Novak, B’Tselem’s executive director, calls on the public in Israel and around the world to take a stand and do everything to stop Israel’s crimes.
The People’s Peace Summit by the @itstime.coalition , Tel Aviv, April 2026
“There are a lot of 'limping monuments' in Palestinian villages, of those who tried to, so there is a price being paid... I'm constantly turning villages into conflict zones”. This is what Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, commander of the military forces in the West Bank, says in Haaretz, published on 3 May (Sunday). The senior officer goes on to say: “The Arabs understand that ‘If someone comes to kill you, kill them first’ is the norm in the Middle East, so we're killing like we haven't killed since 1967,” explaining Israel’s open fire policy in the West Bank.
Bluth brags about the extensive killing in the West Bank: “We've killed 1,500 terrorists in three years… 96 percent of the 1,500 killed were involved in terrorism, only 4 percent were not.”
From October 2023 through 22 April 2026, Israel killed 1,066 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 231 children. The vast majority were killed by military fire, with 32 killed by settler militias.
Using the label “terrorists” to make it permissible to kill Palestinians reflects the worldview of many senior Israeli officials regarding Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
For example, in early 2025, Defense Minister Katz said that, if necessary, Israel would do in the West Bank what it did in Gaza.
In November 2023, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Minister of Finance and Additional Minister in the Ministry of Defense responsible for the Settlement Directorate, said "There are two million Nazis in the West Bank," later adding that "Funduq, Nablus, and Jenin must look like Jabalya."
With Palestinians fully dehumanized in Israel, and in Bluth’s command, the military is deepening its oppression of Palestinians and pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. Under Israel’s apartheid regime, Palestinians’ lives continue to be treated as entirely expendable.
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Israel is currently displacing about 1,800 residents of Silwan, after uprooting hundreds and making them homeless over the past two years.
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For the first time since the 1967 occupation, Israel is expelling an entire Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem.
The Silwan area, located near the "Holy Basin," the Temple Mount, and al-Aqsa Mosque, is home to many archaeological and historical sites of exceptional significance.
As of April 2026, approximately 1,800 residents in Silwan are under threat of expulsion, after hundreds have already been uprooted and left homeless in the past two years. In Baten al-Hawa alone, 33 families have already been expelled, and 53 additional families, including 130 children, face a similar fate. In al-Bustan, Israel has already demolished 48 homes and plans to demolish the homes of 123 more families, which will lead to the expulsion of approximately 1,450 people.
The expulsion in Silwan is part of a policy of ethnic cleansing throughout the entire West Bank.
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On Wednesday, 18 February, the second day of Ramadan, settlers raided two sheep farms on the outskirts of the village of Mikhmas, in Ramallah District. They harassed and chased ‘Ayed Abu ‘Ali, a 52-year-old shepherd, as about 15 village residents rushed to his aid.
Armed settlers, some of them masked, who came to the scene began throwing stones and firing live rounds. Soon, soldiers arrived in four military jeeps and, instead of protecting the residents under attack, fired tear-gas canisters and live rounds at the Palestinians, effectively providing security for the attacking settlers.
During the incident, a masked settler knelt in a sniper position and fired at the residents. Nasrallah Abu Siyam, 19, was hit in the thigh and fell to the ground. His evacuation was delayed by more than two hours due to a military checkpoint. He arrived at the hospital in Ramallah in critical condition and without a pulse and was pronounced dead.
Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 1,066 Palestinians in the West Bank. Under Israel’s apartheid regime, Palestinians’ lives continue to be treated as entirely expendable.
Read the full investigation in the link in our bio.
Thousands of Israelis celebrated Independence Day on the ruins of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja, the largest Palestinian community in the Jordan Valley, which the military expelled just months ago with the help of settler militias.
The lives of the 125 families in the community – 625 people, 333 of them minors – were violently upended by the Israeli regime. Since October 2023, Israel has expelled 59 entire Palestinian communities and partially expelled 16 more: all in all, 4,510 people driven out of their homes to promote Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
See the full list of expelled Palestinian communities in the link in our bio.
Under cover of the Israel-US attack on Iran and Lebanon, Israel’s security cabinet approved the establishment of 34 new settlements in the West Bank. The resolution was kept secret for several weeks and published only after the ceasefire began.
These settlements join 68 others approved by the government since it took office, and more than 107 outposts built with assistance from the state.
Meanwhile, Israel is accelerating its ethnic cleansing of Palestinian residents. In two and a half years, 59 Palestinian communities have been expelled, and more than 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes.
This mechanism relies on close cooperation between two branches operated by the Israeli regime: armed settler militias carrying out daily violence on the ground with support and assistance from the military and the police, and a governmental-legal system that legitimizes and institutionalizes their actions. Over the past weekend alone, dozens of violent attacks by settlers against Palestinian residents and their property were documented.
