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Illustrative file photo of Israeli troops deployed along the Gaza border. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli incursions into Gaza are the rule, not the exception

Israeli troops have crossed into Gaza over 70 times this year alone, according to the UN. And those are only the incursions we know about. Since Israeli special forces troops got into a deadly firefight with Hamas commandos deep inside the Gaza Strip Sunday night, Israel has dropped dozens of bombs and missiles into Gaza…

By Henriette Chacar November 12, 2018

Kites bearing the pictures, names, and birth-dates of Palestinians killed by the IDF during the Great Return March protests in Gaza.

Israeli activists bring images of Gaza dead to the heart of Tel Aviv

In the middle of the night, left-wing activists hung 115 kites along Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv’s central street — one for each Palestinian protester killed by Israeli forces during the Great Return March protests. Israeli activists hung 115 black kites along Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard overnight on Sunday, in remembrance of every Palestinian killed by…

By Orly Noy June 18, 2018

A burned field belonging to kibbutz Nir Oz, after it was lit on fire by kite bombs flown from Gaza, May 15, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

How do Israeli journalists report on a place they can’t reach?

For the past 11 years, Israeli journalists have been forbidden from entering Gaza. This has affected not only their reporting, but also the way fellow Israelis understand what is happening there. By Oren Ziv / Activestills.org The main obstacle that faces anyone who wants to report on what is happening at Gaza protests from the Israeli…

By Oren Ziv May 18, 2018

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Protesters at the Great Return March in Gaza, April 27, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘We’re dying slowly in Gaza, it’s better to die along the fence trying to be free’

In the days leading up to the culmination of the Great Return March, in which organizers expect masses to breach the Gaza border fence, we speak with three Gazans about what the protests have accomplished, what hope they carry, and where they have disappointed. By Meron Rapoport The organizers of the Great March of Return…

By +972 Magazine May 14, 2018

Israeli snipers seen on the border with Gaza during the Great March of Return, March 30, 2018. (IDF Spokesperson)

As soldiers, we too were told to open fire at protesters in Gaza

I was on the border with Gaza six years ago. The same marchers, the same protest. Even the orders to open fire at crowds of people remained the same. By Shai Eluk I was there six years ago. It was Friday, March 30, 2012. Land Day on the border with Gaza. Demonstrations began after Friday…

By +972 Magazine April 2, 2018

A military illumination flare burning the face of Abdel-Rahman al-Dabbagh, which killed him, Gaza Border, September 9, 2016. (Screenshot, DCI-Palestine)

IDF soldiers shoot flare at teen’s face, killing him

Israeli soldiers fire illumination flares, at a direct trajectory, at stone-throwers along the Gaza border. A 15-year-old boy is killed. The IDF says it’s conducting an ‘inquiry.’ Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager by shooting a military-grade illumination flare directly at him, shattering and setting his face on fire last month, according to investigations by B’Tselem,…

By Haggai Matar October 15, 2016

Illustrative photo of a crop-duster spraying agricultural lands with chemical agents. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Gaza farmers demand IDF compensation for herbicide spraying

The Israeli army sprayed herbicides in the Gaza Strip late last year, causing damage to hundreds of acres of Palestinian farmland. Now the farmers want an investigation — and compensation. A number of Palestinian farmers are demanding compensation from the State of Israel for damage their crops and land sustained as a result of the…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 11, 2016

A Palestinian youth, arrested and blindfolded by Israeli soldiers during the closure on Hebron. (photo: Activestills)

‘Every few minutes, one of them hit us with a rifle butt’

Three Palestinian teens speak about the abuse they say they endured in Israeli military custody after being arrested during a demonstration along the Gaza border. By Yael Marom Israeli military police are investigating the suspicion that over the course of three days, IDF soldiers abused three Palestinian teenagers who illegally crossed into Israel from the…

By +972 Magazine May 13, 2016

A Palestinian man from Gaza walks down an open air corridor at the Erez Crossing terminal, the northern checkpoint leading from the Gaza Strip to Israel, in the area of Beit Hanun, February 14, 2012. (Photo by Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Is Gaza still occupied? New video aims to settle the debate

What do you call a situation in which one country’s army controls a foreign population’s imports and exports, border crossings and airspace, population registry, and even how much electricity it can produce? Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of the occupied Gaza Strip in 2005, during what became known as “the disengagement.” As a…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man October 25, 2015

Young men stand beside an old ship in the Gaza port, Gaza Beach, 20.11.2013 (Basel Yazouri /Activestills.org)

Will Israelis ever hear about attacks on Gaza’s fishermen?

These incidents — in which the Israeli army infiltrates the Gaza Strip, shoots at fishermen, confiscates their boats and fires at farmers near the border zone — they are part of daily life in the besieged Gaza Strip. Hamas militants did not infiltrate the border between Israel and Gaza on Thursday morning. However, four Israeli…

By Haggai Matar March 20, 2015

An Israeli soldier stands near the separation wall as hundreds of Palestinians participate in the 'Return March" near Tulkarm, West Bank, May 31, 2014. Palestinians tried to cross the barrier while chanting for their destroyed villages and towns located inside Israel. By 1948, Zionist gangs ahd destroyed more than 500 Palestinian villages prior to the establishment of the State of Israel.

Photos of the week: Marching for return, solidarity with hunger strikers

This week: Hammering away at the wall, refugees march for return, Palestinians form a unity government, Gazan youth wave at the border, Palestinians burn tires, protests in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners, protests against the occupation, and assessing the damage to private Palestinian land. …

By Activestills June 5, 2014