Al Araquib

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

Relatives of of Jihad Aslan mourn during his funeral at Qalandiya Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 26, 2013. In the early hours of August 26, an undercover unit of the Israeli border police entered the refugee camp and tried to arrest a wanted Palestinian man, but the force was discovered by the residents, who clashed with the soldiers. During the clashes, three Palestinians were shot to death: Yunis Jahjouh, 22, Rubeen Abed Fares, 30, and Jihad Aslan, 20. According to Palestinian medics, 19 others were injured. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

From funerals to more protests: A week in photos – August 22-28

This week: mourning three young men killed by Israeli forces, opposing the PA’s cooperation with Israel, Bedouins from al-Arakib appear in court, distributing food to poor Israelis, opposing police harassment in Tel Aviv, marching for animal rights and protesting the occupation in West Bank villages. …

By Activestills August 30, 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

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Village of al-Arakib destroyed again, police to charge residents for evacuation

The Bedouin village al-Arakib, in the northern Negev, was destroyed again today. Hundreds of policemen blocked the access to the village, removed the residents from the temporary homes they constructed, and razed the place with bulldozers. Al-Arakib was destroyed for the first time last week, only to be rebuilt later by residents and volunteers in…

By Noam Sheizaf August 4, 2010

El-Arakib \ In a few hours, an entire village is destroyed

A couple of days ago, when the news cycle was dominated by the story of the IDF helicopter crash in Romania, an entire village was destroyed in the Israeli southern desert. El-Arakib, in the northern Negev, is one of more then 40 unrecognized Bedouin villages in the south of Israel. At down, hundreds of Israeli…

By Noam Sheizaf July 28, 2010