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Sheikh Sayah Aturi returns to his village of Al Araqib, Israel, after winning a court appeal granting him access to his land. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)
PHOTOS: Al Araqib celebrates return of jailed sheikh
Sheikh Sayah Aturi returned to his home village of Al Araqib today (Tuesday) for the first time since his arrest on November 20. On that day, Al Araqib was demolished for the 62nd time while most of its residents were busy protesting in Jerusalem outside of the Knesset during committee debates on the Prawer Plan. This…
By Activestills December 11, 2013
From the checkpoint to the sea: A month of Ramadan photos
During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Israel grants hundreds of thousands of entry permits to West Bank Palestinians in order to pray in Jerusalem. It is estimated that as many as 1 million Palestinians entered Israel during Ramadan this year, many taking the opportunity to visit the beach and other sites they are normally…
By Activestills August 9, 2013
PM office prevented the recognition of two Bedouin villages
A state committee was about to include two Palestinian-Bedouin villages in a new municipal plan, thus giving their residents official rights over their lands and homes after decades of dispute. A letter from an adviser to Netanyahu changed this decision The problem of the unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Israeli south received some media attention…
By Noam Sheizaf November 17, 2010
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