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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 Bilin, February 28, 2014. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israel increases pressure on nonviolent struggle’s flagship village

Whether as a result of the violence in Jerusalem or just because there’s a new commander in town, the Israeli army is once again increasing its oppressive measures in the West Bank village of Bil’in. By Roy Wagner There’s nothing new under the sun in Bil’in. If you take a look at the Wikipedia page…

By +972 Magazine October 28, 2014

Palestinians ride in the village of Juhor ad-Dik, eastern Gaza Strip, September 8, 2014. Juhor ad-Dik is located very close to the border with Israel and came under heavy attack during the latest offensive. Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered the area and destroyed many homes, farmland, and trees.

The month in photos: Building Gaza anew, building new settlements

The most compelling images of September’s top stories in Palestine, Israel and beyond. This month: Rebuilding Gaza, new settlements in East Jerusalem, anti-occupation protests in the West Bank, Palestinian teen’s killers on trial, and poor Tel Aviv residents lose a long fight to keep their homes. More photos: Living in the ruins of a…

By Activestills October 1, 2014

Palestinian women argue with an Israeli soldiers, after a Palestinian youth was shot with live ammunition and was taken by the army, during the weekly protest against the occupation, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, August 15, 2014. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

Photos of the week: Ceasefire begins and ends

This week: Palestinian and Israeli protests across the political, ethnic and religious spectrum; homes and property damaged and destroyed in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel; aid for those suffering; and a wedding under protest. Related: Wedding crashers: Do anti-miscegenation protesters hate or love Judaism? 10,000 protest in Tel Aviv for a just peace, end…

By Activestills August 22, 2014

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Children from Aida Refugee Camp carry keys symbolizing the right of return toward the Israeli separation wall during a Nakba commemoration event, Bethlehem, West Bank, May 14, 2014.

PHOTOS: Nakba commemorations from Gaza to the Galilee

Photos by: Ahmad Al-Bazz, Mustafa Bader, Keren Manor, Ryan Rodrick Beiler, Yotam Ronen, Omar Sameer, and Oren Ziv Palestinians from Nablus to the Gaza Strip Israel/Palestine marked Nakba Day, to commemorate the events of 1948. Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” is the term given to the forced displacement of some 750,000 Palestinian refugees from 500 communities by…

By Activestills May 16, 2014

Asylum seekers from Darfur take part in the 11th memorial day for the genocide in Darfur, in Levinsky park, South Tel Aviv, April 30, 2014.

Photos of the week: Remembering a genocide

This week: remembering Darfur, asylum seekers in Belgium, refusing military service, tear gas in Nil’in, Bedouins face demolitions in the Negev, Palestinian prisoners go on hunger strike, housing struggles in Israel, and Ethiopian Jews protest discrimination.

By Activestills May 2, 2014

A Palestinian runner pushes a friend in a wheelchair along the Israeli separation wall dividing the West Bank town of Bethlehem during the second annual Palestine Marathon, April 11, 2014. Some 2,500 Palestinian and 700 international runners participated in 5K, 10K, half marathon and full marathon races under the title “Right to Movement”. Full marathon runners had to complete two laps of the same route, as organizers were unable to find a single course of 42 uninterrupted kilometers under Palestinian Authority control.

Photos of the week: Mourners, matzah and marathons

This week: A bystander’s funeral, a settlement is born in Hebron, a Passover for past and present strangers in the land, remains from a house demolition, love wins in the Palestine Marathon, remembering a massacre, petitioning the Pope, and a masquerade in Al Ma’sara.

By Activestills April 18, 2014

A Palestinian protester throws a gas canister back at Israeli police near the Israeli Ofer military prison in West Bank town of Betunia on April 4, 2014. The protest was calling on the the release of Palestinian political prisoners, including those who Israeli was supposed to release this month, as part of the Israeli Palestinian negotiations. (photo: Activestills.org)

Photos of the week: Tear gas returned to sender

This week: returning tear gas, glaring settlers, demolishing Negev Bedouin homes, praying at the checkpoint, touring Hebron, housing protests and confronting soldiers

By Activestills April 10, 2014

Israeli activists seek fresh air amid clouds of tear gas at the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh, January 6, 2012. (Photo: Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

Soul searching at a West Bank demonstration

‘I go to demonstrations as a private person protesting the injustice done to the inhabitants of the West Bank. For them, however, I’m an Israeli before anything else, and this dissonance stands at the basis of the soul searching you are now reading.’ By Noam Rotem (translated by Jordan Michaeli) As a graduate of the…

By +972 Magazine January 11, 2014

Relatives of of Jihad Aslan mourn during his funeral at Qalandiya Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 26, 2013. In the early hours of August 26, an undercover unit of the Israeli border police entered the refugee camp and tried to arrest a wanted Palestinian man, but the force was discovered by the residents, who clashed with the soldiers. During the clashes, three Palestinians were shot to death: Yunis Jahjouh, 22, Rubeen Abed Fares, 30, and Jihad Aslan, 20. According to Palestinian medics, 19 others were injured. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

From funerals to more protests: A week in photos – August 22-28

This week: mourning three young men killed by Israeli forces, opposing the PA’s cooperation with Israel, Bedouins from al-Arakib appear in court, distributing food to poor Israelis, opposing police harassment in Tel Aviv, marching for animal rights and protesting the occupation in West Bank villages. …

By Activestills August 30, 2013

PHOTOS: Demonstrators occupy Istanbul’s Taskim Square

Demonstrators in Turkey held their ground in Istanbul early Monday morning, after several days of protests against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a host of issues, ranging from the destruction of municipal parks to infringements on the country’s secular character. In the early morning hours of Monday, June 3, protesters managed to barricade an…

By Activestills June 3, 2013

A Palestinian man stands on top of a stone structure, used by Palestinian farmers of the area, which Israeli settlers took over a few weeks ago, in the West Bank village of Deir Jarir, May 23, 2013. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

From displacement in the Negev to ‘price tag’ attacks: A week in photos – May 23-29

This week: Palestinians and settlers stage West Bank demonstrations, Bedouins and friends protest the Prawer Plan and rebuild demolished homes, Israelis resist evictions and privatization, free T-shirts remind tourists that Bethlehem is in Palestine, the Israeli army invades refugee camps and Palestinians resist new settler outposts. …

By Activestills May 31, 2013

Palestinian activists confront Israeli soldiers during a march on Road 60, the main North-South route through the West Bank, in a Nakba Day protest, May 15, 2013. The Nakba, literally, the "catastrophe", names the massive deportation of more then 700,000 Palestinian, made refugees and driven out of what became the State of Israel in 1948. (Photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

Breaking down walls to remembering the Nakba: A week in photos – May 9-15

This week: Remembering Nakba Day on both sides of the Green Line, demonstrations against the occupation, settlements and the separation wall, social justice protests in Israel, Women of the Wall, solidarity with asylum seekers after police raids and a wall comes down in Lod.

By Activestills May 17, 2013

Demonstrators march during the International Worker's Day protest in the center of Tel Aviv May 1, 2013. (Photo by: Shiraz Grinbaum/ Activestills.org)

From settler reprisals to May Day marches: A week in photos April 25 – May 1

This week: May Day marches from Tel Aviv to Boston, reprisals for the stabbing death of a settler by a Palestinian, protests against domestic violence, demonstrations against settlement expansion, celebrations for hunger striker Samer Issawi, and demolitions of Palestinian properties continue.

By Activestills May 2, 2013