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My father was jailed for believing Palestine must be free
The Israeli occupation thinks that my father, non-violent organizer Munther Amirah, is a threat to its apartheid system because he radiates hope to our community. By Ghaida Amirah I was born at a time when people believed the Israeli occupation would soon be over. Following the signing of the Oslo agreement, my father was confident there…
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February 21, 2018
WATCH: Israeli troops taking away 7 and 8-year-old Palestinian boys
Video shows armed Israeli forces attempting to drag the children into their jeeps in a West Bank refugee camp. Israeli Border Police officers were filmed dragging very young Palestinian children into their jeep in a West Bank refugee camp on Tuesday. The footage, provided by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem and shot by one of…
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Mairav Zonszein
December 13, 2017
In Bethlehem, even running is a political statement
Despite their difficult circumstances, Palestinians in Bethlehem find ways to remind the world that Israel’s occupation cannot exist forever. The organizers of the Palestine Marathon, held annually in the West Bank city of Bethlehem since 2013, recently announced that its next run will take place on Friday 1st April, 2016. The event – one my…
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Amjad Iraqi
December 26, 2015
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Addressing the root of the Palestinian refugee problem
Cash shortages at UNRWA distract from the wider issue: it is the lack of a diplomatic solution, not funding, that leaves Palestinian refugees vulnerable. In the end, it was the catastrophe that wasn’t. For a nervy few weeks it seemed a severe funding shortage would delay the school year for half a million children reliant on the…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
September 24, 2015
‘Israeli army increasing use of live fire at West Bank protests’
Despite being illegal as a crowd control weapon, eyewitness accounts and a new report by B’Tselem document the Israeli military’s increased use of 0.22 caliber live bullets against Palestinians at West Bank protests and clashes. Photos by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler and Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Text by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler Two years ago this week, 15-year-old Palestinian…
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Activestills
January 19, 2015
A West Bank water crisis for Palestinians only
When Israel’s national water company operates more than 40 wells in the West Bank, appropriates Palestinian water resources and controls the valves, is it any surprise that priority is given to Israeli settlements? By Stephanie Westbrook Qarawat Bani Zeid is a small Palestinian town of 3,500 north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. There are no…
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November 22, 2014
PHOTOS: Palestinians mourn woman who died after inhaling tear gas
The death of a 45-year-old woman in Aida Refugee Camp exposes the ongoing abuse of crowd control weapons that all too often become lethal in the hands of Israeli forces. Text and photos by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org Family and neighbors buried Noha Katamish the day after she died from the effects of tear gas fired…
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Activestills
April 15, 2014
Girls throw stones, too
Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp is located right next to the separation barrier and the massive Israeli checkpoint known as 300. As Aida is subject to frequent raids by both Israeli soldiers as well as Palestinian Authority forces, it sees regular clashes. A young woman who lives in Aida told me that last week, when Israeli…
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Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
March 26, 2014
PHOTOS: This tear gas brought to you by the U.S.A.
Text by Ryan Rodrick Beiler On the same day that Bethlehem’s minister of tourism noted that the US government provided $400,000 to decorate the city for Christmas, local activists brought a few more US-sponsored ornaments to show to visitors in this West Bank town at the height of its tourist season. The activists delivered used…
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Activestills
December 3, 2013
From Al Aqsa clashes to Tel Aviv activism: A week in photos – September 20-27
This week: Clashes in Jerusalem and the West Bank at the heels of provocative visits to al-Aqsa Mosque/Temple Mount area by right-wing Jewish activists, weekly demonstrations against the wall and the occupation, Tel Aviv activists march at night, and some local color in Ramallah.
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Activestills
September 28, 2013
From a Jenin funeral to settlement construction: A week in photos – September 11-18
This week: A pattern of Israeli arrest raids resulting in the death of Palestinians continues, as do housing problems in Tel Aviv, resistance against the separation wall, and settlement construction in occupied Palestinian territory.
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Activestills
September 19, 2013
Details emerge of Palestinian photographer’s brutal arrest
Palestinian photographer Mohammad Al-Azza was arrested earlier this week. He had spent months evading the same Israeli forces that had shot him in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet last April while he was covering an incursion into Aida Refugee Camp, where he lives. Journalist Amahl Bishara provides this detailed account of the ordeal Al-Azza and his family faced…
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Activestills
July 10, 2013
PHOTOS: Israeli troops shoot Palestinian photographer in the face
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Israeli soldiers target a Palestinian photographer who was taking pictures of them invading Aida Refugee Camp, shooting him in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet. At about 5:30 p.m. Monday, Israeli soldiers entered Aida Refugee Camp through a gate in the separation wall dividing Rachel’s Tomb from Bethlehem. There were no clashes…
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Activestills
April 9, 2013
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