Israel: Fear for Safety

Index Number: MDE 15/092/2006
Date Published: 23 November 2006
Categories: Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories, Middle East And North Africa

Human rights defenders working in the Occupied Territories are at risk of attack by Israeli settlers. Amnesty International is concerned at the latest such attack against those who seek through their presence to afford protection to Palestinians and to bear witness to the abuses perpetrated against them by Israeli settlers in the area.