AFP photojournalist Ahmad Gharabli. (Courtesy of Ahmad Gharabli)

Police wound Palestinian photographer for second time in less than a year

Police shot Ahmad Gharabli in the chest with a sponge-tipped bullet during a home demolition in Jerusalem, six months after they beat him at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
By Oren Ziv
An excavator belonging to the Jerusalem Municipality carries out demolitions near the Salhiyeh family home, Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, January 17, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

East Jerusalem does need schools. But not on the ruins of Palestinian homes

Far from serving the needs of Sheikh Jarrah’s residents, the municipality’s excuse for expelling the Salhiyeh family is entirely cynical.
By Orly Noy
Israeli soldiers operate a checkpoint at the entrance to the Palestinian village of Dir Nizam, occupied West Bank, January 11, 2021. (Rachel Shor)

Israeli troops admit collective punishment is policy

The army has subjected Dir Nizam to near-total closures since December. And soldiers are frank about why they're doing it.
By Yuval Abraham
Young Jews from around the world celebrate 10 years of the Birthright program at an event held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem, May 12, 2010. (Dudi Vaknin/FLASH90)

The new hasbara campaign Israel doesn’t want you to know about

Losing the war for public opinion, Israel is relaunching a plan to disguise its propaganda behind the façade of 'foreign agents.'
By Itamar Benzaquen and The Seventh Eye
Activists from Palestine Action hold up a banner on top of Elbit Systems factory in Oldham, northern England, August, 2021. (Palestine Action)
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The UK welcomed an Israeli arms factory to our town. We shut it down

By forcing Elbit Systems to close one of its factories, we showed what direct action can achieve.
By Huda Ammori
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On the latest episode, Israeli archeologist Yonathan Mizrahi talks about Israel's weaponization of archeology to expand Jewish settlement.
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Bedouin women and girls protest Israel's afforestation and expropriation of their land, Sa’wa al-Atrash, Naqab, January 12, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
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Women and girls are increasingly on the front lines of Bedouin resistance to Israel’s expropriation of their land — and they’re just getting started.
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The remains of the Salhiyeh family home that was demolished by Israeli authorities, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, January 19, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
‘How do they expect my children to grow up and not be full of hatred?’
Lital Salhiyeh, whose family home in Sheikh Jarrah was demolished on Wednesday morning, has no idea where she and her family will go now.
By Yuval Abraham January 19, 2022
Now 14's editorial team. (Screenshot of Now 14 promotional video)
I spent a week watching the Israeli Fox News. Here’s what I learned
Now 14 is a look into the right’s paranoid stream of consciousness, which loathes progressives, loves settlements, and remains loyal to King Bibi.
By Noam Sheizaf January 18, 2022
Israeli soldiers wave a tattered Hezbollah flag as they return from fighting around the southern Lebanese village of Marun Al-Ras, July 27, 2006. (Pierre Terdjman/Flash90)
Hezbollah couldn’t ask for a better enemy than Israel
Through a war of words, Israel and Hezbollah have created a symbiotic relationship that plays into each other's ambitions for political hegemony.
By Joseph B. January 18, 2022
Mahmoud Salhiyeh on the roof of his home just before he and his family were due to be forcibly expelled, Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, January 17, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
‘I’m not leaving, even if I die’: Sheikh Jarrah family staves off forced expulsion
The Salhiyeh family's forced eviction seemed inevitable, until a desperate last stand saw their expulsion postponed. But the future remains uncertain.
By Oren Ziv and Yuval Abraham January 17, 2022
The Sydney Opera House, May 25, 2014. (Jason Tong/CC BY 2.0)
A letter to the Sydney Festival about Palestine solidarity
When the Festival Board dismissed our objections to Israeli embassy funding, it had no idea of the massive support that artists would show for our cause.
By Sara Saleh January 17, 2022
The aftermath of a Molotov cocktail attack on a kindergarten for immigrant children in the Shapira neighborhood of south Tel Aviv, Israel, April 27, 2012. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
‘Breaking the ghettos’: The struggle to desegregate Tel Aviv’s schools
The city that brands itself a 'liberal haven' is forcing asylum seekers' children into separate, impoverished schools. And the parents are fighting back.
By Ben Reiff January 16, 2022
An Israeli soldier seen during an army raid on the Palestinian village of Burqa in the West Bank next to a spray-painted symbol of The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). (Oren Ziv)
Israel’s new secret document still fails to tie Palestinian NGOs to ‘terrorism’
+972 and Local Call have obtained a new report sent to foreign diplomats in a fresh attempt to justify outlawing six Palestinian civil society groups. The document, which is full of unsubstantiated claims, has left Europe's leaders unconvinced.
By Oren Ziv and Yuval Abraham January 13, 2022
A week after torrential rain caused severe flooding, Palestinians use fishing boats to assist residents in retrieving belongings from their homes in the Al-Nafaq section of Gaza City, December 18, 2013. (Ryan Roderick Beiler/Activestills.org)
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Amid a deepening climate crisis, Palestinians in Gaza are fighting to salvage their land and livelihoods. But repeated bombardments and an unrelenting blockade are devastating efforts to build climate resilience.
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