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Syrian children re-enact the difficult journey from their home country to Greece, Kos, Greece, September 9, 2015. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
‘Water filled our boat, we saw death staring us in the face’
Thousands of refugees sleep in tents, waiting to receive a permit to travel to Athens; women suffer from dehydration while the children re-enact the treacherous journey from their war-torn home countries to Western Europe. A special report from the Greek island of Kos.  Text and photos by Oren Ziv and Irene Nasser KOS, GREECE —…
By Activestills September 11, 2015
Migrants in the "Afghan camp" set up a fire to warm themselves. Tomorrow they face the prospect of being without any shelter. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)
PHOTOS: French authorities threaten to destroy migrant camps
Migrants in Calais, France occupy a food distribution center to protest Paris’s threat to evict them from their camps. Groups of migrants set up camps on the coast in hopes of sneaking across the channel to the UK. By Anne Paq/Activestills.org Despite rainy weather, hundreds of migrants occupied a food distribution center in the French…
By Activestills May 30, 2014
Due to Israeli army roadblocks that would not allow cars to enter, Palestinians on horseback help deliver food and supplies to the protest village of Ein Hijleh on the fourth day of the encampment, Jordan Valley, West Bank, February 3, 2014. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)
Photos of the week: Palestinians return to Jordan Valley village
This week: African immigrants and Palestinian activists occupy protest camps to demand their rights; self-demolition in East Jerusalem; solidarity with hunger striker Samer Issawi; and Israeli authorities block Negev Bedouin agriculture and dump garbage in the West Bank.                          
By Activestills February 6, 2014
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Palestinian women look on and react as Jerusalem municipality workers demolish a residential building in an East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, on October 29, 2013. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
From prisoner release to home demolitions: A week in photos – October 25-31
This week: Prisoner releases, house demolitions, weekly demonstrations, olive harvests, prayerful protests, and asylum seekers.                        
By Activestills November 1, 2013
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