Human Rights

Feature Story Israel Refuses to Return Palestinian Corpses, Holding Them as Bargaining Chips

How Israel heartlessly controls Palestinian lives, even after death

Feature Story Israeli Legislative Initiatives Imperil Palestinian Civil Society in Jerusalem and Beyond

New draconian laws are arriving.

Feature Story Israel Wants to Silence Islamic Call to Prayer

A centuries-old Islamic religious practice is imperiled, causing consternation among Palestinians in the city.

Interview Israel Relaunches Land Registration in West Bank to Strip Palestinians of Property

A bureaucracy designed to serve as a grand land theft

Blog Post Israel Increasing Efforts to Expel Jerusalem’s Palestinian Villages

Small peripheral villages, left in limbo for decades, now face all-out expulsion.

Graphic Prayer at al-Aqsa Mosque on the Two Holiest Days of Ramadan, 2022–25

Four years of data show a clear downward trend due to Israel’s increasing restrictions on access.

Feature Story Despite Israel’s Stringent Limitations on Access to al-Aqsa Mosque, Tens of Thousands of Muslims Prayed There This Week

Ramadan 2025, Week 1: Report from the ground

Feature Story New Checkpoints, Gates, and Procedures Paralyze Palestinian Mobility across the West Bank, Including East Jerusalem

As soon as the ceasefire in Gaza took effect, Israel turned on the West Bank just as Ramadan was getting underway.

Blog Post Palestinian Narratives Silenced: The Story behind Israel’s Bookstore Raids

A military censor. Social media threats. Israel’s raid of the Educational Bookshop is just one more effort to silence Palestinian voices.