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Movement and access restrictions
Approximately one-third of East Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents currently live on the other side of the Separation Barrier and permanent crossing points. Immediately following October 7, 2023, all peripheral checkpoints surrounding East Jerusalem were shut down, abruptly cutting off Palestinian residents living beyond the barrier from their urban hub. The placement of additional temporary checkpoints and roadblocks between neighborhoods within East Jerusalem further restric
Lack of accountability, transparency, and oversight
As this section demonstrates, both military and IPS detention facilities operate without transparency and in disregard of Israeli law and regulations as well as international legal norms. The prolonged violation of the most basic rights afforded to detainees and prisoners, resulting in irreversible physical and psychological harm and even death, reflects the absence of internal oversight, minimal attention to external scrutiny, and, on an individual level, a lack of any genui
Deportation of Families of Terrorists Law
In November 2024, the Knesset passed the Deportation of Families of Terrorists Law, 5785-2024 , which empowers the Minister of Interior to deport, for several years, Israeli citizens or residents who are first-degree relatives of terrorists if they “knew or should have known in advance about the terrorist’s plans to commit an act of terrorism and failed to do everything possible to prevent its commission, completion, or consequences…” or if they “expressed support or sympath
Lack of accountability, transparency and judicial oversight
Lack of accountability Yesh Din monitored the performance of the military’s law enforcement system with respect to three military operations in Gaza over the past decade: Protective Edge (July-August 2014), the response to the Great March of Return (March 2018 until late 2019), and Guardian of the Walls (May 2021). Its analysis leads to the conclusion that the system is not interested in properly investigating suspected war crimes or reviewing policy decisions. Very few inve
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