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 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 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)
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 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 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)
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 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)
Our team has been devastated by the horrific events of this latest war – the atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel and the massive retaliatory Israeli attacks on Gaza. Our hearts are with all the people and communities facing violence.
We are in an extraordinarily dangerous era in Israel-Palestine. The bloodshed unleashed by these events has reached extreme levels of brutality and threatens to engulf the entire region. Hamas’ murderous assault in southern Israel has devastated and shocked the country to its core. Israel’s retaliatory bombing of Gaza is wreaking destruction on the already besieged strip and killing a ballooning number of civilians. Emboldened settlers in the West Bank, backed by the army, are seizing the opportunity to escalate their attacks on Palestinians.
This escalation has a very clear context, one that +972 has spent the past 13 years covering: Israeli society’s growing racism and militarism, the entrenched occupation, and an increasingly normalized siege on Gaza.
We are well positioned to cover this perilous moment – but we need your help to do it. This terrible period will challenge the humanity of all of those working for a better future in this land. Palestinians and Israelis are already organizing and strategizing to put up the fight of their lives.
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