Photos of the week: Climbing the wall in Bil’in

Activestills By Activestills March 6, 2014 | Edit

This week: Climbing the wall, filling the streets, remembering the Nakba, resisting displacement and saving the chickens.

A Palestinian youth places a flag on the Israeli wall during a protest marking 9 years for the struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bilin, February 28, 2014. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
A Palestinian youth places a flag on the Israeli wall during a protest marking nine years of struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in, February 28, 2014. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

 

The Bridge of Strings, or Chords Bridge, is seen through the window a house in the depopulated Palestinian village of Lifta, located on the edge of West Jerusalem, Israel, March 4, 2014. During the Nakba, the residents of Lifta fled attacks by Zionist militias beginning in December 1947, resulting in the complete evacuation of the village by February 1948. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)
The Bridge of Strings, or Chords Bridge, is seen through the window of a house in the depopulated Palestinian village of Lifta, located on the edge of West Jerusalem, Israel, March 4, 2014. During the Nakba, the residents of Lifta fled attacks by Zionist militias beginning in December 1947, resulting in the complete evacuation of the village by February 1948. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

 

An ultra-orthodox Jewish man walks in the depopulated Palestinian village of Lifta, located on the edge of West Jerusalem, Israel, March 4, 2014. During the Nakba, the residents of Lifta fled attacks by Zionist militias beginning in December 1947, resulting in the complete evacuation of the village by February 1948. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)
An ultra-orthodox Jewish man walks in the depopulated Palestinian village of Lifta, located on the edge of West Jerusalem, Israel, March 4, 2014. During the Nakba, the residents of Lifta fled attacks by Zionist militias beginning in December 1947, resulting in the complete evacuation of the village by February 1948. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

 

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women take part in a mass prayer in Jerusalem March 2, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews held a mass prayer in Jerusalem on Sunday in protest against a bill meant to slash military exemptions granted to seminary students, a tradition held since the founding of Israel. (photo: Tali Mayer/Activestills.org)
Ultra-orthodox Jewish men and women take part in a mass prayer in Jerusalem March 2, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of ultra-orthodox Jews held a mass prayer in Jerusalem on Sunday in protest a bill meant to slash military exemptions granted to seminary students, a tradition held since the founding of Israel. (photo: Tali Mayer/Activestills.org)

 

An old men shouts at Israeli police men after authorities bulldozer demolished a building in the Bedouin village of Kuhle on February 26, 2014. Every year around 1000 buildings are demolished in in the Bedouins towns and villages in the south of Israel. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)
An elderly man shouts at Israeli policemen after the authorities demolished a building in the Bedouin village of Kuhle on February 26, 2014.
Every year around 1,000 buildings are demolished in Bedouin towns and villages in the south of Israel. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

 

A Palestinian woman stands near a gate in the Israeli wall during a protest marking 9 years for the struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bilin, February 28, 2014. (photo: Hamde Abu Rahma/Activestills.org)
A Palestinian woman stands near a gate in the Israeli wall during a protest marking nine years of the struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in, February 28, 2014. (photo: Hamde Abu Rahma/Activestills.org)

 

Israeli doctors and activists demonstrated against the on-going process of privatization of public health services, Tel Aviv, March 1st, 2014. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)
Israeli doctors and activists demonstrated against the on-going process of privatization of public health services, Tel Aviv, March 1st, 2014. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

 

Members of the "Israeli Animals liberation front" block the entrance to a slaughterhouse in the Israeli village of Kfar Habad, February 27, 2014. Israel activists chained themselves to gates of the slaughterhouse for 3 hours, preventing from a truck loaded with Chicken to enter. Israeli police arrested at least 10 activists. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Members of the “Israeli Animal Liberation Front” block the entrance to a slaughterhouse in the Israeli village of Kfar Habad, February 27, 2014.
Israel activists chained themselves to gates of the slaughterhouse for three hours, preventing a truck loaded with chickens from entering. Israeli police arrested at least 10 activists. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

 

Red paint is seen on a wall with the shadows of policemen, as members of the "Israeli Animals liberation front" block the entrance to a slaughterhouse in the Israeli village of Kfar Habad, February 27, 2014. Israel activists chained themselves to gates of the slaughterhouse for 3 hours, preventing from a truck loaded with Chicken to enter. Israeli police arrested at least 10 activists. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Red paint is seen on a wall with the shadows of policemen, as members of the “Israeli Animal Liberation Front” block the entrance to a slaughterhouse in the Israeli village of Kfar Habad, February 27, 2014. Israel activists chained themselves to gates of the slaughterhouse for three hours, preventing a truck loaded with chickens from entering. Israeli police arrested at least 10 activists. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
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