Joint alert by Peace Now, Combatants for Peace, Emek Shaveh Summary: The World Heritage Site known as the Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir...
Yesterday (July 24th, 2024) we learned that the Israeli army has issued (on July 10th, 2024) an order to seize 1.3 dunam at the archaeological site of Sebastia in the...
Ahead of the Preliminary Vote on P/2345/25: The Israel Antiquities Authority Law (Amendment – Authority of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Judea and Samaria), 2023 Tomorrow (10/7/2024), a preliminary vote...
July 4, 2023 Cabinet Decision to Allow Israeli Civil Administration Jurisdiction at Heritage Sites in Area B of the West Bank The recent reports in the Israeli media about the...
General Introduction Over the past several months, we have been monitoring a proliferation of activities to expand and deepen Israeli control at several antiquity sites in the West Bank. These the include declaration...
In late March the Civil Administration announced its intention to add 206 dunams to the Jordan regional council including the village of Jiftlik and the archaeological site of Tel al...
In March, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and the Staff Officer for Archaeology (SOA) in the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) led a public excavation of the Murba’at Caves at the...
We, the undersigned Israel-based civil society and human rights organizations, call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demand the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza...
Yesterday, Sunday, January 21st, the director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, Eli Eskozido, shared on his Telegram and Instagram accounts a video showing soldiers examining a collection of antiquities in Gaza....
General introduction While local and international attention is justifiably focused on the destruction and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, or on settler violence in the West Bank, processes tantamount to the weaponization...