Gideon Levy

Overturned beach umbrellas, a locked dining room, an abandoned bar, shattered windows in Room 697. On a Sinai beach at Passover, the regulars didn't show up.

As the 15-year-old ran for his life, a sniper's bullet caught him in the neck and he bled slowly to death. The soldiers even shot at his rescuers. The IDF: 'The person killed was an armed terrorist'

Footage showing an Israel Defense Forces dog sinking his teeth into Yusra Raba'ya's arm was broadcast over and over again on Arab TV stations, and her picture was in the Israeli papers.

The Shin Bet outdid itself last month, casting the wife and elderly father of a Palestinian detainee in a prison-yard drama as an interrogation method. The result: Three suicide attempts by the son.

Despite an explicit prohibition by the Supreme Court, three children were recently used as human shields to protect IDF soldiers in Nablus. It's called the 'neighbor procedure.'

Hanan Anami wandered into an unmarked IDF firing zone to graze her sheep. The result: one bullet in the head.

The husband is in the territories, the wife and daughters in Jordan. He is not allowed to go to her, she is not allowed to come to him.

He was playing soccer, and touched the fence. The soldiers shot Taha Aljawi and left him to bleed to death. He wasn't yet 17, a shy kid from Jerusalem.

Life and death are in the hands of the checkpoint: the cancer patient who was delayed until he died, the woman in labor who was kept all evening in front of the locked gate. And everyone is just following the rules.

In his speech Wednesday, the president convicted-without-a-trial the media, decision makers, AG and complainants.

'My daughter needed a miracle and there are no miracles these days. I told myself that I don't want to take revenge.' A monologue by Bassam Aramin, a peace activist whose daughter Abir, 11, was killed in an incident with the Border Police last week.

Worker Wahib al-Dik was mixing plaster when the soldiers, chasing stone-throwers, entered the building he was renovating and, they claim, saw him hoist a large rock. Three bullets at point-blank range and Dik tumbled down the steps into the sand and died, as his father watched.

A sad Id al-Adha (Festival of the Sacrifice) and New Year's Day in an imprisoned village in the West Bank.

B'Tselem: IDF bombing of Gaza power plant was war crime; electricity still cut off 3 months after IAF strike.

Refugees from the ruined village of Shoka say 17 of their neighbors have been killed by Israel in recent weeks.

The modern power station is completely paralyzed; the Gaza Strip lacks some 60 percent of its supply of electricity.

Former Peruvian presidential candidate blasts Israel's 'out of proportion' Gaza operation at Madrid convention.

We should thank the British organization that boycotted Israel from the bottom of our hearts.

The CEC will mull four petitions calling for the disqualification of the United Arab List-Ta'al from the election race.

Man considered 'security risk' due to prior illegal stays in Israel, must pay NIS 2,000 for accompaniment to hospital.

The most recent victim of the army's canine unit is Salha al-Dik, a 78-year-old mother of seven and grandmother and great-grandmother of dozens, whose arm was severely lacerated. The IDF expresses its regret.