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Border Police officers suppress a joint Palestinian-Israeli protest against Route 4370, dubbed the 'apartheid road,' just east of Jerusalem in the West Bank, January 23, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Activists shut down traffic on new West Bank ‘apartheid road’

Activists say the highway, which separates Israeli and Palestinian traffic with an 26-foot concrete wall, will ‘strengthen Israeli rule, including by shutting out entire Palestinian areas.’ Dozens of Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists Wednesday morning blocked a highway many have dubbed the “apartheid road,” Route 4370 in the occupied West Bank, which separates Israeli and Palestinian…

By Oren Ziv January 23, 2019

Route 4370, known as the 'apartheid road,' just east of Jerusalem, West Bank. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israel’s new ‘apartheid road’ is about more than just segregation

Israel claims the new road, which separates Israelis and Palestinians by an eight-meter wall, alleviates traffic for settlers while helping Palestinians travel around the West Bank. Human rights activists say it will help create Israeli-only enclaves free of any Palestinian presence. Israel unveiled a new segregated highway in the occupied West Bank last week, with a giant eight-meter…

By Edo Konrad January 16, 2019

Activists protest the demolition of Wadi al-Ahmar near the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank on September 12, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Activists dig in ahead of Khan al-Ahmar demolition

Israel may demolish and evict the Palestinian-Bedouin community any day now, and activists are maintaining a presence there until it does. Israeli forces demolish a small, protest camp that was erected earlier in the week. By Oren Ziv An Israeli High Court injunction preventing the forced displacement and demolition of the Bedouin community of Khan…

By Oren Ziv September 13, 2018

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A child looks on at the remains of demolished homes in the Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar, July 4, 2018. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Between garbage and sewage: Israel’s future plans for Khan al-Ahmar

To avoid being transferred to a garbage dump in East Jerusalem, the villagers of Khan al-Ahmar will have to convince three other Bedouin communities to evacuate the area. After that, they can live near a wastewater site. By Hagai El-Ad Since the mid-1970s, Israel has been working to drive Palestinians out of the West Bank area which lies…

By +972 Magazine August 16, 2018

Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign activists attempt to block Israeli equipment brought to prepare for the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar, July 5, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

The demolition of Khan al-Ahmar is more than just a war crime

While the imminent destruction of Khan al-Ahmar is an utmost humanitarian concern and quite possibly a war crime, many are overlooking the strategic importance of this tiny hamlet for the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The residents of Khan al-Ahmar have spent the past several weeks waiting for Israeli bulldozers to arrive to demolish their entire village and forcibly…

By Edo Konrad July 9, 2018

Villagers and activists watch a World Cup match together in Khan al-Ahmar's schoolyard, July 2, 2018. (Oren Ziv)

‘We aren’t going anywhere’: This Palestinian village is preparing for the worst

The residents of Khan al-Ahmar, a tiny hamlet in the West Bank, live in constant fear of a demolition that could come any day now. Dozens of activists take turns staying the night, passing the time by arguing over politics and the World Cup. But despite the numbers, the villagers know that once the bulldozers…

By Oren Ziv July 3, 2018

Students walk in the yard of the school in Khan al-Ahmar, February 23, 2017. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Activestills.org)

Israeli demolition of entire Palestinian village days away, villagers fear

Israeli security forces show up and survey homes in Khan al-Ahmar, which activists and residents fear is a sign of forced displacement of the entire village. Israel’s top court gave its approval to the demolition, an act rights groups say would constitute a war crime. By +972 Magazine Staff After getting the green light from…

By +972 Magazine July 1, 2018

Salah holds a picture of himself herding sheep. al-Jabal, June 12, 2018. (Oren Ziv / Activestills.org)

‘They destroyed everything’: Israel’s decades-long war against the Jahalin Bedouin

Expelled by Israeli forces from the Negev, then forced to live next to a garbage dump, the Jahalin Bedouin have lost their ancestral homes and their traditional way of life. The impending forced displacement of Khan al-Ahmar is just the latest struggle in the Bedouin tribe’s history of dispossession. Just outside the Palestinian town of…

By Joshua Leifer June 13, 2018

Representatives of the Palestinian Authority and Bishop Atallah Hanna from the Greek Orthodox Church took part in the protest by residents of Jabal al Baba against their expulsion. November 23, 2017 (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

Palestinians in Jabal al-Baba protest Israeli expulsion order

The small village is located in E1, an area in which the U.S. and Europe have long demanded Israel not build new settlements, because doing so would cut the West Bank in two. Around 100 demonstrators joined the Palestinian community of Jabal al-Baba on Thursday, November 23, in the E1 area of the West Bank adjacent…

By Activestills November 24, 2017

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Cybertech Israel Conference, in Tel Aviv, January 31, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Trump is just what Netanyahu needs to annex the West Bank

His ideological proximity to the new U.S. president will allow Netanyahu to advance plans for the de facto annexation of the West Bank. Now all he needs is Trump’s approval. By Menachem Klein A slip of the tongue from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month is worthy of attention. In an unprepared response to a Likud Knesset…

By +972 Magazine February 10, 2017

A man from the Jahalin tribe herds his sheep in his village near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumin, West Bank, May 19, 2005. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Israel issuing Palestinian building permits to further West Bank land grab

An increase in building permits for Palestinian structures in Area C of the West Bank is not what it seems. It is, in fact, part of the Israeli government’s process of concentrating Palestinians in order to make room for settlements to expand. By Alon Cohen-Lifshitz It’s the responsibility of anyone who wants to build a house to…

By +972 Magazine January 27, 2017

Israeli police arrest Palestinian demonstrators outside the re-established Bab al-Shams protest village, Ma'ale Adumim, January 20, 2017. (Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Palestinians build village to protest West Bank annexation bill

Police arrest six Palestinians for building a protest village to demonstrate against a bill that would annex the Ma’ale Adumim settlement bloc to Israel. Photos by Activestills.org, text by Yael Marom Fifty Palestinian activists established a protest village Friday morning adjacent to the West Bank settlement bloc, Ma’ale Adumim, to protest a bill that would annex the area…

By Activestills January 20, 2017

A man walks along Israel’s separation wall where it snakes through the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, August 15, 2015. (Micah Bond/Flash90)

The annexation of Palestine could be closer than you think

A perfect storm of domestic Israeli politics combined with the changing of the guard in Washington could create an opportunity for those advocating annexation to finally make their move. Senior Israeli government minister Naftali Bennett announced on Sunday that he will introduce legislation to effectively annex Israel’s third-largest settlement in the West Bank, Ma’ale Adumim,…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 1, 2017