A week in photos: January 10-16

Activestills By Activestills January 17, 2013 | Edit

The struggle for Bab al-Shams goes on, as do demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank; a hunger striker has his day in court; weekly demonstrations against the occupation; farmers face rubber bullets in South Africa; and Palestinians in Jerusalem defend their community.  

A week in photos: January 10-16
Palestinian activists construct a tent in Bab al-Shams, “Gate of the Sun”, E1 area, January 11, 2013. The village was constructed by the Popular Committees to protest Israeli settlement construction. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: January 10-16
Police evict the people of the newly set up Palestinian tent village Bab al-Shams, established by Palestinian activists in E1, a zone between East Jerusalem and the settlement of Male Adumim. Israel intends to build more settlements there, January 12, 2013. (Photo by Guest photographer: Hamde Abu Rahma/ Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: January 10-16
Palestinian activists run during an attempt to return to Bab al-Shams village in the E1 area, January 15, 2013. (Photo by: Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: January 10-16
Israeli police arrest Palestinian activists during an attempt to get back to Bab al-Shams village in the E1 area, January 15, 2013. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: January 10-16
Palestinian photographers pose for a photo after they were beaten and injured by Israeli police during the attempt of Palestinians to get back into Bab al-Shams village in the E1 area, January 15, 2013. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: January 10-16
Members and relatives of the Isbur family stand next to the ruins of a demolished house. Seven members of the family were displaced after their house was demolished by the Israeli authorities in the South Hebron Hills village of Ad Deirat on January 14, 2013. The same day the Israeli authorities demolished four houses in the South Hebron Hills area, leaving 36 people homeless. (Photo by: Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: January 10-16
An Israeli prison guard escorts Samer Issawi, a Palestinian political prisoner, out of his court hearing in Jerusalem, January 16, 2013. Samer Issawi is on his 174th day of hunger strike, the court postponed the decision in his case to the 5th of February, 2013. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: January 10-16
The weekly demonstration in Kfer Qaddum, a West Bank village located east of Qalqiliya, January 11, 2013. Kfer Qaddum started to organize regular demonstrations in July 2011, protesting against the blocking of the main road east of the village which used to link it to Nablus. (Photo by: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: January 10-16
A 20-year-old resident of De-Doorns showing wounds caused by rubber bullets, Western Cape, South Africa, January 11, 2013. Farm workers in the Western Cape, South Africa, have been striking for a wage rise from 69 Rands ($8) a day to 150 Rands ($17) a day. January 9 marked the third strike in many farms around the Western Cape, and De-Doorns became the center of the struggle with workers blocking the N2 highway and clashing with police. After the clashes ended, the police raided houses in the community, breaking doors and windows, and shooting people with rubber bullets at close range in their homes. (Photo by Shachaf Polakow/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: January 10-16
A 10-year-old girl shows her eye injury caused by a rubber bullet, Western Cape, South Africa, January 16, 2013. On the previous day, the police attacked the community with rubber bullets and stun grenades, killing one resident and injuring many others. (Photo by Shachaf Polakow/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: January 10-16
Residents of Beit Safafa protest the plan and construction that has already begun to build a four-lane highway through their village in Jerusalem Municipality, January 16, 2013. The residents are not allowed to submit any objections to the plan to the municipality, although the road goes through many plots of land that were already approved for building. (Photo by: Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
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