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Israeli soldiers critically wound Palestinian child in Qaddum protests
Israeli soldiers fire live ammunition at anti-occupation protesters in Kufr Qaddum, critically wounding a 10-year-old child. By +972 Magazine Staff A 10-year-old Palestinian child is in critical condition after Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at an anti-occupation protest in Kufr Qaddum on Friday. Abdul Rahman Yaser Shtewi was shot in the head with a live…
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July 12, 2019
The man who helped build Israel’s legal infrastructure of oppression
Aharon Barak says he is concerned about Israeli democracy, but he bears responsibility for no small part of where the country is today. By Hagai El-Ad Former Chief Justice Aharon Barak is completely at peace with his ruling on targeted assassinations. On a recent episode of an Israeli investigative TV program, he went so far…
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July 4, 2019
Forget BDS: Denied entry to Israel, just because of a last name
Over the past two years, the Israeli army has revoked Palestinian workers’ permits to enter Israel simply because they share a last name with someone who carried out a violent attack against Israelis. The move has already dealt a severe blow to over 2,000 workers in the West Bank, many of whom have been working inside Israel…
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September 26, 2018
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The Gaza siege isn’t about security. It’s collective punishment, pure and simple
Israel shut down Gaza’s ability to conduct trade because of flaming balloons and kites that Palestinians have been floating over the border. There is no security justification, just collective punishment. Israeli authorities often claim that the siege on Gaza is about security. Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups must not be allowed to import weapons…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
July 10, 2018
Shin Bet: Lose your job if your kid throws stones
Israel’s security service publishes notices in the Palestinian village of Beit Omar threatening to revoke work permits from families whose children are suspected of stone throwing. By Yael Marom Residents of the Palestinian village Beit Omar in the West Bank discovered last week that the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, had posted threatening notices on their…
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January 4, 2018
PHOTOS: Palestinians hold pray-in to protest road closures
Palestinian residents of a village cut off by Israeli military closures hold prayer services at the roadblock to protest. Photos and text : Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills Tens of Palestinian residents of the village of Betia, south of Nablus, moved their Friday noon prayer from mosques to in front of Israeli dirt mounds that block…
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Activestills
September 25, 2016
A ‘wave of violence’ that never actually ends
When the Israeli media talks about the latest ‘wave of violence,’ it leaves out the five unarmed Palestinians who were shot to death by soldiers and police officers in the past few months. The newspaper headlines over the past few days leave no room for doubt regarding what has been happening here lately. “Terror returns,”…
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Haggai Matar
September 20, 2016
Yes, Israel does differentiate between Jewish and Palestinian terror
When Palestinians demand their attackers receive the same punishments as those who target Jews, the pretense of equal treatment before the law slips away. Some of Israel’s most hardline politicians are fond of saying that they don’t differentiate between terror attacks perpetrated by Jews and Palestinians. In the wake of the Duma arson that killed three…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
September 14, 2016
PHOTOS: Israeli army blocks main roads to Palestinian villages
Photos and reporting by Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org The Israeli army has blocked off with with concrete cubes, boulders and dirt seven main access roads to Palestinian villages in the Nablus area of the West Bank in recent days. The roadblocks unmanned, and entirely block Palestinian residents from using their vehicles on the main roads leading in and out of their…
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Activestills
September 6, 2016
Home demolitions are organized state violence
Over the last decade, Israel has demolished over 1,100 Palestinian homes in the West Bank, leaving homeless more than 5,199 people, including at least 2,602 minors. The extensive demolitions are part of a broader Israeli policy of forced transfer. The following speech was delivered at a conference on home demolitions held at the Knesset on…
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+972 Magazine
July 28, 2016
A creative Palestinian answer to Israeli checkpoints
The Israeli army has placed barricades at the entrances to Palestinian villages and towns in recent weeks. One crane operator figured out a way to help out stranded motorists. The Israel army has been utilizing collective punishment against entire Palestinian cities and villages in recent months as a response to a wave of attacks against…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
July 22, 2016
Why Israel can’t kick its addiction to collective punishment
Israel’s revocation of permits and closure of Yatta this week reflect its need to keep the Palestinian issue at bay by controlling and threatening their people for every action of a few. A Palestinian family from Nablus was supposed to visit their relatives in an Arab town in Israel for Ramadan later this month. They…
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Amjad Iraqi
June 11, 2016
WATCH: Three days under military closure in Qabatiya
West Bank town put under closure following last week’s deadly attack on Israeli Border Police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City. Photos and text by: Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills.org After three days of strict military closure, the Israeli army lifted its blockade Saturday evening on the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank. The blockade…
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Activestills
February 7, 2016
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