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A Palestinian youth places a flag on the Israeli wall during a protest marking 9 years for the struggle against the wall in the West Bank village of Bilin, February 28, 2014. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Photos of the week: Climbing the wall in Bil’in

This week: Climbing the wall, filling the streets, remembering the Nakba, resisting displacement and saving the chickens.

By Activestills March 6, 2014

A 4-year-old Palestinian child in intensive care at West Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital on August 18, 2012, a day after he was seriously injured in a firebomb attack by Israeli settlers on the taxi in which he was travelling with his family on the road from Bethlehem to Hebron, in the West Bank. The child, seen here with his grandmother, is from Nahalin, a small village west of Bethlehem that, after losing 60% of its lands to the nearby Israeli settlements, comes under regular attacks by Israeli settlers. In the attack, which happened as the family was on the way to a breakfast at the mother’s family in the Al-Arrub Refugee Camp and which took place in an area under exclusive Israeli security control, two children, the mother and father and the driver were seriously injured. (photo: JC/Activestills.org)

A week in photos: August 14-21

A new regular feature from the Activestills photography collective. Each week, we will bring you a selection of our most compelling images from movements for political and social change throughout Palestine and Israel. Activestills is a collective of Israeli, international and Palestinian photographers, united by a conviction that photography is a vehicle for…

By Activestills August 22, 2012