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Is Land in the West Bank Registered to Its Owners?
Order 291 halted West Bank title registration in 1968, the State Comptroller recorded; its 2021 audit found the registers kept in hard copy.
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What one published record says, what it counts, and what it does not cover.
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Is Gaza Still Occupied After the 2005 Disengagement?
Israel’s Supreme Court held in 2008 that Israeli effective control of Gaza ended in September 2005, and named 3 sources of continuing duty.
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How Long Has the West Bank Been Under Military Government?
Israel’s State Comptroller dates the military government to the law of 7 June 1967. The IDF commander has signed about 1,800 orders since then.
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When Does Israel Say a Home Can Be a Military Target?
A building can be a military objective by its nature, location, purpose or use, Israel’s Foreign Ministry stated on 2 November 2023.
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Does the IDF Use AI to Choose Targets in Gaza?
The IDF answers no: it says Habsora and Lavender assist analysts, a human identifies each target, and operational commanders approve strikes.
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Does the IDF Set a Limit on How Many Civilians a Strike May Kill?
No Israeli publication read here sets a number. The Foreign Ministry says excessive harm is not measured in absolute numbers, and the IDF assesses each strike.
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Does the IDF Call Off Strikes When Civilians Appear?
IDF footage supplied to IsraelFact shows 7 strikes called off, 1 held and 10 diverted in 18 clips dated 4 April 2024 to 12 July 2026.
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Can an IDF Legal Adviser Stop a Strike?
Israel’s Foreign Ministry states IDF legal opinions are binding on individual attacks; a senior commander then approves, suspends or aborts.
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What Did Israel Say Its War Aims Were After October 7?
Israel’s own statement of its objectives, with the hostage counts attached: 207 returned, 48 remaining, on the Foreign Ministry’s count of September 2025.
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Why Did Israel Fail to See the October 7 Attack Coming?
The IDF’s expert team named 6 central factors for the 7 October failure, and the Israel Security Agency dates detection of the plans to 2018 and 2022.
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Who Can Get Israeli Citizenship?
Israel’s Citizenship Law 5712-1952 sets 4 routes to citizenship, and about 95% of residents acquired it on one day in 1952.
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What Is the Natural Growth Argument for Settlement Expansion?
The Levy Commission recommended fixing settlement jurisdiction for “future natural growth”. The Bureau recorded 40.9 per 1,000 in Modi’in Illit in 2020.
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Is Israel Striking Gaza During the Ceasefire?
What Israeli bodies published about strikes inside Gaza after the ceasefire of 10 October 2025, and the count they do not give.
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Has Israel Entered Gaza Neighbourhoods During the Ceasefire?
Israel’s own war diary places 2 IDF brigades east of the yellow line in Shuja’iyya and Jabalia after the 10 October 2025 ceasefire.
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Can You Get Married in Israel Without a Religious Ceremony?
Israel’s Civil Union Law registers couples only where both partners are recorded as having no religion, on the Ministry of Justice’s own published rules.
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What Is Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank?
Clause 7 of Israel’s 2018 Nation-State Basic Law, the 1979 Beit El and Elon Moreh judgments, and the Oslo II definition of the settlements.
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Does Israel Publish a Proportionality Assessment for Gaza Strikes?
Israel’s bodies publish investigation counts, thresholds and a judicial proportionality test. No Israeli body publishes a strike-level assessment.
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Were Israeli Soldiers Trained in the Laws of War?
Israel’s State Comptroller recorded in March 2018 that IDF international-law training was conducted, and what the training instructions did not cover.
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What Did Israel’s Supreme Court Rule on the Barrier Route?
Israel’s Supreme Court annulled barrier seizure orders over access harm in 2004. What the judgments, Oslo II and the State Comptroller publish.
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How Do Israeli Settlers Acquire Palestinian Land?
Israel’s own record: 26 of 105 outposts on State land, a Custodian under Military Order 59, and what the State Comptroller audited.
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Does Israel Demolish Palestinian Homes, and What Do Israeli Bodies Publish?
Israel’s own record on demolition: Regulation 119 as the Supreme Court quoted it in 2014, the Oslo II planning split, and the outposts courts ordered removed.
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How Does Israel Define State Land in the West Bank?
Military Order 59 of 1967, Oslo II, the 2005 opinion on unauthorized outposts and the 2012 Levy Report, in Israel’s own published words.
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Does Israeli Law Privilege Jews Over Non-Jews?
What Israel’s own instruments and courts state: Ka’adan on land allocation, the 1948 Declaration, the Nation-State Basic Law and the Hasson judgment.
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Which Law Applies in the West Bank, and to Whom?
Israel’s Supreme Court, the 1995 Interim Agreement and the 2005 outposts opinion on which law applies in the West Bank, and to whom.
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Which Israeli Instruments Are Used to Take Palestinian Land?
The named Israeli and Ottoman instruments behind land expropriation, with the body that issued each, its date and its own test.
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Is It Legal for Settlers to Take Palestinian Land Under Israeli Law?
What Israel’s own courts, orders and reviews say: State land, private land, 105 outposts and two evacuation judgments.
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How Does the Israeli Government Fund Outposts?
NIS 71,870,000 in ministry spending on unauthorized outposts, 2000 to 2004, and what Israel’s own reviews and audits do and do not publish.
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How Does Israel Use Military Seizure Orders for Land?
About 700 dunams near Rujeib were taken under Order 16/79 in 1979, and the Supreme Court annulled it as to 125 dunams. Israel publishes no running total.
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Can Uncultivated Palestinian Farmland Be Expropriated?
Military Order 59 defines government property by ownership on 7 June 1967; the 1953 Land Acquisition Law took 1.2 million dunams in year one.
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What Does Israeli Law Say About the State’s Role in Settlements?
Clause 7, the 1979 State land resolution, Military Order 59 and the 2005 outposts opinion: what Israel’s own bodies published, with dates.
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What Did Israel’s Supreme Court Decide in the Elon Moreh Case?
Israel’s Supreme Court struck down Order of Possession no. 16/79 on 22 October 1979, five justices to none. It did not rule settlement unlawful in principle.
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What Did Israel’s 1950 Absentee Property Law Do to Palestinian Land?
The two 1950 statutes, the absentee definition, the 1.2 million dunams expropriated in 1953, and why no agreed total exists.
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Does Israeli Law Guarantee Equality?
Israel’s 1992 Basic Law names six rights and contains no equality clause. The Supreme Court derived that rule in Ka’adan on 8 March 2000.
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How Many Unauthorized Outposts Are There in the West Bank?
Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office found 105 in March 2005 and called the figure a floor, with NIS 71,870,000 of ministry funding behind them.
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How Many Criminal Investigations Has the IDF Opened Over Gaza?
The Military Advocate General’s Corps reported 74 criminal investigations opened as at 3 August 2024, on its own count, under a reasonable-suspicion standard.