A week in photos: October 18-24

The olive harvest, an attempt at breaking the siege on Gaza, Palestinian elections and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week.

A week in photos: October 18-24
With Israelis from Tel Rumeida settlement looking from above, Israeli soldiers arrest Ahmad Al-Atrash of B’Tselem for filming confrontations between settlers, the Al Azzeh family who had just harvested their olives, and the military, October 22, 2012. The arrest followed the first time the Al Azzeh family was able to harvest their olives since 2007. Despite coordinating with the appropriate authorities, their harvest was disrupted by Israelis from the adjacent Tel Rumeida settlement, which, like all settlements, is illegal under international law. (photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
Palestinian protesters together with international and Israeli activists break into Rami Levi supermarket, located in the Sha’ar Binyamin settlement, to protest the Israeli occupation and to call for a boycott against Israelis settlements, October 24, 2012. (photo by: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
Israeli activists hold signs against the siege on Gaza as they stand on a beach near the Ashdod Port, waiting for the Israeli navy to escort the Finnish ship SV Estelle into the port. Israeli sailors seized the ship as it approached the waters of the Gaza Strip, somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, October 20, 2012. (photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
A Palestinian activist argues with an Israeli soldier after he prevented a Palestinian family and their supporters from harvesting five olive trees in the West bank village of Kfer Qalil, October 23, 2012. They had only four days, in coordination with the Israeli authorities, which is not enough to harvest all their lands. They were prevented from harvesting the trees because they are near a spring which was confiscated by the Israeli settlement Bracha, which, like all settlements, is illegal under international law. (photo by: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
Followed by international solidarity activists, Israeli soldiers chase a Palestinian youth during a demonstration marking the 6th year of popular struggle in the West Bank village of Al Ma’asara against the building of the Israeli separation wall, October 19, 2012. (photo by Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
Palestinian activists pass bags of olives through a fence surrounding the bypass road of the illegal settlement of Itamar, which is located on the land of the West Bank village of Beit Furik, near Nablus, October 19, 2012. (photo by: Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
Eritrean refugees living in Israel take part in a protest outside the Ministry of Defense on October 18, 2012, in Tel Aviv. The protesters called for the ousting of the dictatorship in Eritrea, and the release of all political prisoners. They also called for their recognition as refugees and for the immediate end of the Israeli government’s detention policy. (photo by: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
A Palestinian youth uses his slingshot to throw back a tear gas canister shot by the Israeli army during the weekly demonstration against the occupation and settlements in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, October 19, 2012. (photo by: Oren Z|iv/ Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
Samira Kadi cries as she holds photos of men murdered in Jaffa, among them her cousin, Hani Mahjna, murdered on August 2012. Protesters demanded that the Israeli police invest more resources in order to solve the murder cases. The protest was organized after a few men were shot in the streets in the last few months. (photo by: Oren Ziv/ Actviestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
A woman shows her ink-stained finger indicating that she has cast her ballot, as Palestinians vote in municipal elections, October 20, 2012. Long delayed due to divisions between Fatah and Hamas, the latter of which is boycotting the polls, and limited to elections for local city councils only, it was the first opportunity for Palestinians to vote in elections of any kind since 2006. (photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
Israeli activists protest outside a meeting of the Naamat organization in North Tel Aviv, against the organization’s plan to evict a social center opened in an abandoned Naamat building in Jerusalem, October 21, 2012. Activists from Jerusalem took over a building that was empty for three years, opening a community center and a housing solution for single mothers. (photo by: Oren Ziiv/ Acitvestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
Accompanied by supporting friends and family, Moriel Rothman (center) walks toward his draft location at Ammunition Hill, where he plans to refuse to participate in the Israeli military, October 24, 2012. Rothman is refusing military service on the basis of conscientious objection to structural violence and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. (photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

 

A week in photos: October 18-24
A Palestinian woman and children pass the slogan “Gas the Arabs! JDL” spray-painted on an exterior wall of the Cordoba School near Shuhada Street, Hebron, October 22, 2012. “JDL” stands for Jewish Defense League, an extremist group founded by Meir Kahane and designated as a terrorist group by the FBI. On February 25, 1994, JDL charter member Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslims at Hebron’s Al-Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs), killing 29 worshipers and injuring 125. Afterwards, the JDL designated him “a martyr in Judaism’s protracted struggle against Arab terrorism.” (photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)