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A man walks toward the checkpoint at the entrance of Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, December 27, 2011 (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

For Jerusalem’s Palestinians, a city of poverty and division

More than one quarter of Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents live behind the concrete separation barrier; Israel has revoked the residency of over 14,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites since ‘reunifying’ the city in 1967, including 107 last year alone. Three-quarters of East Jerusalem’s 300,200 Palestinian residents live below the poverty line, including 83.9 percent of children, according to a…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 17, 2015

Member of the Swetti family pours water to a put from a plastic bottle, East Jerusalem, March 15, 2014. The family of nine, living in the Ras Shehada neighborhood has been going 10 days without running water. (Activestills.org)

Palestinians in East Jerusalem go 10 months without water

Israel refuses to connect four neighborhoods in its self-declared capital to running water. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in East Jerusalem have been cut off from a regular supply of running water for nearly a year due to to their location beyond Israel’s separation barrier. Despite their location within the boundaries of Israel’s self-declared capital,…

By Mairav Zonszein January 18, 2015

Israel's Supreme Court sits as the High Court of Justice, April 1, 2014. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills)

Judges aren’t cogs in the occupation, they’re the oil keeping it going

A new report maps out the two separate legal systems in the occupied territories — one for Jews and one for Arabs. At a launch event for the report, senior jurists showed up and argued it’s not their fault whatsoever. Former Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner asked: What can we do? The answer: A lot.…

By Haggai Matar December 22, 2014

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Ben Gurion Airport. (joshuapiano/CC BY 2.0)

How Israel’s security services turned me into a ‘potential terrorist’

When Yoav Haifawi joined radical left organizations in Israel, he had no idea that the airport security services would begin searching him for explosives. A true story about the security services’ modus operandi. By: Yoav Haifawi (*) The following story is 100% true. It tells us a lot about the modus operandi of the security…

By Haokets November 17, 2013

Human Rights March, December 9, 2011

Human rights march in Tel Aviv to counter anti-NGO legislation

The true essence of the foreign funding bill is its subjugation of all Israeli civil society organizations to the government’s whims. On Friday, December 9, 2011, Israeli civil society fights back at the human rights march By Ehud Uziel The revised Akunis-Kirschenbaum foreign funding bill backed by Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Lieberman is…

By Haokets December 1, 2011

Deportation of foreign worker and child, Aug 19 2011 (Photo: Activestills)

Interior Min. attempts first deportation of Israeli-born child

Despite the fact that the child, born to migrant workers in Israel, has lived her whole life here and is integrated into the public school system, the Interior Ministry applied its rigid deportation criteria for the first time since the postponement period on deportations ended – and without even providing the father with the chance to properly…

By Mairav Zonszein August 18, 2011

Abdallah Abu Rahmah the day of his release from Ofer Military Prison (photo: Oren Ziv/activestills.org)

Palestinian protest leader released from jail after 16 months

By Libby Lenkinski Friedlander Yesterday, March 14, at about 3:30 PM, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee, was released from Ofer Military Prison after serving his 15-month expanded sentence. Abu Rahmah was arrested on 10 December 2009 and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment including time served, which should have made his release…

By +972 Magazine March 15, 2011