Press Releases
1/3/2013
11/14/2012
Army's support, authorities' tolerance of illegal outpost Tapuach West violates right of Kafr Yasuf residents to access their agricultural land
Justice Naor in Supreme Court hearing:
"The role of the military commander is to ensure access and if there are lawbreakers they must be dealt with”
10/28/2012
10/15/2012
"Yesh Din" to GOC Central Command: "Allocate all necessary resources to protect the life, body and property of Palestinian olive harvesters"
Hundreds of trees vandalized in 17 incidents in first 10 days of the harvest
10/10/2012
Investigation of vandalism of Palestinian trees: One indictment in 162 investigations
This year again police failed to investigate cases of vandalism targeting Palestinian trees; there was no systemic effort to prosecute those responsible; 35 new incidents of vandalism of Palestinian trees documented by Yesh Din in the last year; 95% of files processed by the police were closed under circumstances that indicate the failure of the investigation: on grounds of "absence of evidence" or "perpetrator unknown, or investigation files lost and never investigated
9/13/2012
State of Israel wishes to resume building on private Palestinian land in 40 settlements in violation of a Supreme Court ruling (the Elon Moreh case) and the rules of international law
The state wants to officially renew building on private Palestinian land in 40 settlements built on land seized by military orders before 1979. This came to light in the state’s response to the High Court of Justice in a petition by a Palestinian resident of the village of Dura al-Qara, submitted by Yesh Din, against the illegal construction of two buildings on the edge of Beit El, in an area seized for military purposes
9/6/2012
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