Source:B'Tselem Website

13 years after the 2003 shooting death of a West Bank resident by an Israeli soldier: the state agrees to pay the widow and orphans “ex-gratia” compensation

Torture in interrogation rooms: six lawsuits submitted through HaMoked over mental and physical damage caused to interrogees at the ISA interrogation facility at Shikma Prison

During a punitive demolition in East Jerusalem, the military caused severe damage to neighboring apartments: the affected families are suing the state over negligence

Thirteen years after a toddler was killed by an Israeli soldier’s gunfire in Gaza: the state finally allowed the father to enter Israel to testify in court about his son’s tragic death

HaMoked to the Court: order state to approve immediate removal of debris from a punitively demolished housing unit in Jabal al-Mukabber in order to prevent further damage to property or life

The Knesset approved Amendment No. 8 of Civil Wrongs (Liability of the State) Law: Israel continues to exempt itself from liability for damage caused by its soldiers in the OPT and raises additional obstacles on the way of Palestinians to sue compensation for the damage sustained by them

A decade after the military shot and killed a resident of the Qalandiya Refugee Camp: the state will compensate the deceased's family in the sum of ILS 400,000

A civilian, resident of the occupied territory, who is not taking part in combat is injured in the course of security forces activity and suffers bodily or property damages. He files a compensation claim against the state with a court in Israel. Israeli statute determines that the state is not civilly liable and is exempt from paying compensation if the damage was incurred in the course of a “w...

The Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee of the Knesset reviews the amendment to the Civil Wrongs (Liability of State) Law: HaMoked reasserts that this is an unconstitutional amendment, aimed at exempting the state from its responsibility for damages it caused to Palestinians of the Occupied Territories

Unit 202 of the Israeli military has a reputation as being a top operations unit. This is judicial knowledge; or so at least according to the judgment of Judge Malka Aviv at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court in the matter of Abu Snineh. I will confess: this author has no idea what Unit 202 is, or what reputation it has gained. Perhaps this is the root of the problem.The verdict concerns events th...

Judgment of the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court dismissing HaMoked's civil claim on behalf of Palestinians whose homes were taken over by the military for ten days, resulting in property damage and theft of valuables. The Court rules that while the statements of both the plaintiffs and the soldiers contained contradictions, those found in the soldiers' versions were immaterial and those found in t...

The paper discusses the relevant legal framework for evaluating the sanctions Israel imposed on the civilian population in Gaza during Operation "Cast Lead", in light of the judgment in Bassiouni, HCJ 9132/07, which dealt with Israel's obligation to provide electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip. The author assess the HCJ's position in Bassiouni, whereby after disengagement Gaza is not an occup...

A report by Yesh Din on the outcome of indictments against soldiers charged with offences against Palestinians and their property from September 2000 to the end of 2007. The report reveals that indictments have been filed in only 6% of all investigations opened in the period covered by the report. The report also shows that although thousands of Palestinians had been killed in that period, sold...

HaMoked – Center for the Defence of the Individual, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Adalah publish a position paper against the proposed Civil Wrongs (Liability of State) Law (Amendment No. 8) – 2008, which passed first reading in the Knesset. The proposed law is intended to prevent residents of the Territories from filing tort claims against the State even in cases in which dama...