A week in photos: December 6-12

Activestills By Activestills December 13, 2012 | Edit

Mustafa Tamimi is remembered in Nabi Saleh and Tel Aviv, where thousands marched for human rights; actions for animal and housing rights; an eye on settlement expansion; and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week.

A week in photos: December 6-12
Palestinian and Israeli activists hold a poster asking “Who Killed Mustafa Tamimi?” during the weekly protest against the occupation in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, December 7, 2012. Tamimi was killed on December 9, 2011, when he was shot in the face with a tear gas canister at close range by Israeli soldiers. Also pictured on the poster is the soldier who killed Tamimi. No one responsible for Tamimi’s death has been brought to justice to this day. (photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: December 6-12
An Israeli activist at the annual human rights march in Tel Aviv holds a poster asking, “Who Killed Mustafa Tamimi?” December 7, 2012. Also pictured on the poster is Lieutenant Colonel Shay Ben Yishai, the direct commander of the soldier who killed Tamimi. (photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: December 6-12
A Palestinian youth runs through a cloud of tear gas shot by the Israeli army during the weekly protest against the occupation in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, December 7, 2012. The protest also marked one year since the killing of Mustafa Tamimi on December 9, 2011. (photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: December 6-12
Members of the “Freedom Theater” perform during a memorial event for Mustafa and Rushdi Tamimi in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, December 7, 2012. Mustafa Tamimi was killed on December 9, 2011. Last month, on Novmeber 17, 2012, Rushdi Tamimi was shot with live ammunition during a protest in solidarity with Gaza. No one responsible for either death has been brought to justice to this day. (photo by: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: December 6-12
Activists with Zochrot, an organization dedicated to educating Israelis about the Nakba, in which Palestinians were forced from their homes in 1948, carry “returnee documents” promoting the right of return for Palestinian refugees, during the annual human rights march in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2012. The UN included the right of return at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948. Only a day later, the UN passed Resolution 194 calling for the return of all Palestinian refugees to their homes as soon as possible. (photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: December 6-12
Border police check the ID card of a Palestinian during the annual human rights march in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2012. (photo by: Shachaf Polakow/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: December 6-12
Israeli activists take part in a performance as part of a campaign aimed at drawing attention to the pain and cruelty inflicted on animals during laboratory tests for cosmetics, inside a window display in a shop in Tel Aviv, December 9, 2012. The action was against the Israeli authorities’ plan to cancel the special mark on products that are not produced with animal experimentation. (photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: December 6-12
A man threatens to set himself on fire after spilling gasoline on himself in the Halamish public housing company offices in Jaffa, Israel, following his eviction from his house earlier that day, December 12, 2012. (photo by: Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: December 6-12
A shelter for sheep built from old furniture in a Bedouin camp in the E1 area between Jerusalem and the Israeli West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim (background), on December 11, 2012. Israel has approved the building of 3,000 settler homes in E1, a plan that has been on hold for years due to pressure from the U.S. and EU. Should the construction go ahead it would close off East Jerusalem from the West Bank. All Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian territory are considered illegal under international law. (photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: December 6-12
Israeli construction machinery builds the new settlement of ‘Leshim’ on the lands of the West Bank village of Kafr ad Dik, near Salfit, December 7, 2012. Two settlements, “Alei Zahav” and “Pedu’el,” besiege the village. (photo by: Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)
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