Response to Claim 20: Israel hinders the Palestinian fight against COVID-19
Israel has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus does not respect borders and given the proximity of Palestinians to Israeli population centers,
Israel has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus does not respect borders and given the proximity of Palestinians to Israeli population centers,
Despite the conflict, Israel has granted entry to tens of thousands of Palestinians who received top-level medical care at Israeli hospitals. Medical coordination between Israel
There is no evidence that Israel violates the human rights of the Druze people living on the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in
While freedom of Palestinian movement is undeniably affected by Israeli security measures concerning the West Bank and Gaza, this issue—which is addressed in greater detail
Israel has the freest press in the entire Middle East, and accredits many more journalists and media workers than any of its neighboring countries. As
Human rights defenders and media workers everywhere have a right to be protected, and in Israel, as a rule, they are protected. Israel is a
Free movement of Palestinians was the norm before suicide terrorism. Until the First Intifada in the late 1980s, Palestinians were generally free to travel between
The Palestinian “pay for slay” policy incentivizes terror against Israelis by rewarding terrorists with monthly salary stipends far in excess of regular social welfare payments.
The claims about the bodies of “martyrs” held by Israel, which concern the remains of Palestinian terrorists who perpetrated attacks against Israelis, is a distortion
It is true that Israel arrests Palestinian minors who commit stabbings, throw Molotov cocktails or engage in other violence or terrorist activity, in many cases
The Israeli military does engage in targeted killings of high-level Palestinian terrorists, such as senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Baha Abu al-Ata. However,
Blanket claims like this divorce these terms of their legal meaning and suggest that Israel must allow its own citizens to be attacked or killed