Monitoring and Documentation of Violations Against Vulnerable Palestinian Communities Living in a Coercive Environment B'Tselem, with partner Yesh Din, will document and monitor the violations of human rights contributing to a coercive environment resulting from the combined impact of demolitions and threats of expulsion of Palestinian communities, violence by Israeli settlers, and lack of access to agricultural land in vulnerable communities in Area C and East Jerusalem, including in Nablus area villages, the South Hebron Hills and specific communities that are at significant risk of displacement or transfers. The two organizations' extensive experience in documentation and monitoring of violations, and highlighting Israel's duty to protect according to International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and complementary approaches will better enable the examination of the factors contribute to a lack of security, loss of livelihood and environment of coercion. B'Tselem and Yesh Din will respond rapidly to incidents in order to inform the humanitarian response team and to utilize the resources and expertise available to the organizations together. B'Tselem will monitor and document human rights violations in farming-shepherding communities threatened by dispossession under Israel’s permit and planning regime. Authorities prohibit construction of structures, refuse to hook them up to the water and power grids, and decline to pave access roads. Departure due to impossible living conditions created by the authorities – by demolishing homes or disconnecting them from electricity and running water – is considered forcible transfer. This constitutes a war crime for which all those involved bear personal liability. Yesh Din and B’Tselem will respond to incidents of settler violence and restrictions to access in agricultural Palestinian villages that are particularly vulnerable to violence and displacement due to an ongoing struggle over resources and their proximity to settlements and outposts. These communities suffer from violence and property damage at the hands of Israeli settlers on a regular basis, and, in nearly all cases, offenders go unpunished, contributing to an increased culture of impunity.  
Settlers and the State of Israel both strive to take over West Bank land and its natural resources. The routine violence by settlers plays a role in achieving this objective. As years of monitoring by B’Tselem and Yesh Din has shown, Israeli security forces regularly allow settlers to assault Palestinians and damage their property ( highlighted in Yesh Din’s report ‘Standing Idly By’). Soldiers sometimes safeguard the settlers in such situations, providing them support and at times even taking part in the assault. This is compounded by a law enforcement system that fails to take action against offenders, failing to protect Palestinians living under occupation. According to Yesh Din,  there is only a 3% chance of a complaint filed by a Palestinians in the West Bank as a result of ideologically motivated crime resulting in conviction. 82% of investigations of harm to Palestinians are closed in circumstances suggesting police investigative failure. This culture of impunity emboldens settlers to continue violence and to take over private Palestinian land. 
Yesh Din and B'Tselem will monitor and document Israeli policies and actions that form a coercive environment and inform the humanitarian response teams, protection cluster and relevant country coordinators to contribute to a thorough humanitarian response. Yesh Din will participate in a proposed rapid response mechanism through the protection cluster, which would alert the organization to all reported incidents of settler violence, which Yesh Din could respond to and document.  Urgent issues that require rapid response will be reported to the protection cluster as well as the media through B’Tselem’s press releases. The organizations can prepare a monthly report summering all the incidents we document, which can be sent digitally and presented to the protection cluster.