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B'Tselem

Israeli human-rights NGO · Jerusalem · est. 1989

Advocacy NGO

Documents human-rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israeli policy, including reports cited for both Gaza and Oct 7 framing.

Financing

organization
Money source

Foundation, government, and private donations disclosed by the organization.

Institutional alignment

Israeli civil-society organization independent of the Israeli government.

Financing is shown to help readers weigh incentives and constraints. It is not a finding that the source is truthful or false.

Credibility & caveats

Important Israeli rights documentation source, especially for local context; its political/legal framing is strongly rejected by many Israeli officials and pro-Israel advocacy groups.

Membership & leadership

Nonprofit NGO governed by a board and professional staff; not a public membership body.

Common challenges

  • advocacy posture
  • domestic political dispute
  • legal-characterization disputes

These are source-weighting caveats, not automatic refutations of claims.

Leadership & members

  • Yuli NovakExecutive Director since 2023
  • Hagai El-AdExecutive Director during major 2014–2023 period
  • Israeli and Palestinian field researchersdocumentation and testimony collection staff

Named individuals reflect leadership at the time of writing; linked names have individual profiles in this record. See membership & leadership above for how they are selected.

People profiled in this record

On the record

Verbatim quotations in this project attributed to this body or its officials.

  • “The attack by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups on 7 October 2023 ... was aimed mostly at civilians, included many war crimes and likely also crimes against humanity.”

    Case: october 7 israelis 2023 →

Cases in this record

Sources & disclosures