A Very Healthy Country

Introducing Maurice Hirsch: Director of Legal Department, Palestinian Media Watch (2017- today)Senior Military Justice Consultant, NGO Monitor (2017-2018)Head of Military Prosecution for Judea and Samaria, Israel Defense Forces (2013-2016)Head of Legal Advice to the Navy, Air Force, Ground Forces and Home Front (2010-2013)Deputy Head of the Military Prosecution for Judea and Samaria (2007-2010)Head of the… Continue reading A Very Healthy Country

Settler’s Army

On 6 February, in the south Hebron Hills, near the settlement of Ma’on, Israeli forces beat and detained two 15-year-old children over night, following complaints by the settlement head that they were grazing their sheep on land planned for the expansion of the settlement. - UN OCHA, 'Weekly update' (13 February, 2015)

The only plus for children in the West Bank…

DCIP research shows that children arrive at Israeli interrogation centers blindfolded, bound and sleep deprived. More than three-quarters of child detainees endure some form of physical violence between the period of their arrest and interrogation, with half of them also strip searched. Almost all children confess regardless of guilt to stop further abuse. In more… Continue reading The only plus for children in the West Bank…