"THE NEWS"

• Washington Post
  Palestinians shoot back at Israelis -- with cameras, by Alistair Lyon, Reuters (20 August 2008) - Palestinian residents of Hebron complain of frequent attacks by Israeli settlers, and then the Israeli police and soldiers will do nothing, so human rights groups have begun supplying video cameras to the Palestinians so they can show the world what is going on. The article gives in-depth description of the situation with the settlers. The article also mentions that the settlements and land annexations are illegal.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Settlers increase attacks on West Bank Palestinians, by Robert W. Gee (19 August 2008).
  This article describes increasing settler attacks on Palestinians supposedly because of increased shutdown of outposts and the relative lack of Israeli police response (due to overall lack of policing resources allocated to the area). The article also describes the outposts as illegal as per Israeli law, but that all settlements are 'illegitimate' as per international law and also describes the dual legal system which ties the settlement legally to Israel while the Palestinian areas remain under military law.

• Washington Post
  Israel clears troops who killed Reuters cameraman, Reuters (13 August 2008).
• Washington Post
  Israeli-Palestinian hatreds envenom West Bank city, by Alistair Lyon, Reuters (7 August 2008) - describes the situation in Hebron where settlers have taken over the towncenter and abuse the Palestinian natives and the Israeli military won't do anything about it, and instead undermine Palestinian police with almost daily raids.
• Boston Globe
  Settlers clash with Palestinians, Associated Press (25 July 2008). This article describes conflicting claims between the Palestinian police and the Israeli police concerning the actions of the Israeli settlers.
• Ynet News Service: Palestinians: Settlers attacked farmers, burned olive trees, by Ali Waked (21 July 2008).
  This article describes how Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and burned their olive trees. It mentions that their settlement is illegal.

• BBC News: Israel accuses six of terror link (18 July 2008).
  This article describes Israel's internal security service, Shin Bet, accusing various Israeli Arabs and Palestinian residents of E.Jerusalem of trying to set up an Al Queda cell in Israel, or of having connections to Al Queda, or of trying to develop a plan to attack President Bush during his visit to Israel.
• Haaretz Daily News: Eviction orders approved for 2 settler-occupied Hebron stores, by Nadav Shragai (27 May 2008).
  A decision of the Civil Administration and an Israeli Supreme Court decision both help original Palestinian owners of land that has been confiscated by Israeli settlers, as they removed settlers from two stores in Hebron and stated that the interests of the original Palestinian owners must be taken into consideration.

"ONLINE REPORTS"

• International Commission of Jurists - Palestine - Attacks on Justice 2005 - Independence of Judges and Lawyers (11 July 2008).
• International Commission of Jurists - Palestine - Israel - 7th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: ICJ Intervention on the Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories - Administration of Justice - Independence of Judges & Lawyers (6 March 2008).
• Yesh Din - About the Security Forces' Criminal Accountability Project - Project covering law enforcement responsibilities of the Israeli military in the occupied territories for protecting Palestinian civilians from Israeli settler violence and crime.
• Yesh Din - Backyard Proceedings: The Implementation of Due Process Rights in the Military Courts in the Occupied Territories - Yesh Din report on lack of due process in Israeli military courts in occupied territories (includes replies from the Israeli military).
• Yesh Din - Law Enforcement Upon Israeli Civilians In OT Project - Project defending Palestinian civilians from Israeli settler violence.
• Badil - Investigation of Criminal Offenses by IDF soldiers against Palestinians and their property: figures for 2000-2007 (December 2007).
• Yesh Din - Ahead of the olive harvest 2007: Yesh Din's demands from the security forces (October 2007).
• Yesh Din - A Semblance of Law: Law Enforcement upon Israeli Civilians in the West Bank (June 2006).
• Badil - Closing Protection Gaps: Handbook on Protection of Palestinian Refugees in States Signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention (August 2005).
• Badil - BADIL - Information & Discussion Brief: Internally Displaced Palestinians, International Protection and Durable Solutions, by Terry M. Rempel (November 2002).

"OFFLINE REFERENCE MATERIALS"