Demonstration

Police detain activists for filming in Paris Square

When filming a protest ‘endangers state security’

Anti-occupation activists say that two soldiers threatened them, and when they called police, the cops detained them instead — on suspicion of endangering state security. By Michael Salisbury-Corech Like every week the past 26 years, a group called “Women in Black” held a demonstration against the occupation in Jerusalem’s Paris Square last Friday. Across the street,…

By +972 Magazine December 6, 2015

Ethiopian-Israelis protest police brutality against Ethiopians in Jerusalem, blocking Israel’s Highway 1, April 30, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Ethiopian-Israeli protest against police brutality is met with violence

This isn’t Baltimore. This is Jerusalem, on Thursday night. Photos by Oren Ziv and Tali Mayer/Activestills.org Thousands of young Ethiopian Israelis demonstrated against police brutality in Jerusalem on Thursday, in a vigil that spiraled into violent clashes with police. The protesters congregated in the afternoon under the banner: “Down with racism! A black person will not…

By Activestills April 30, 2015

Israeli tanks on the Israel-Gaza border. (photo: Activestills.org)

Who are the Israelis refusing the call of Protective Edge?

On Saturday evening, another anti-war demonstration was held in Tel Aviv. A few hundred people marched and chanted and hoped that rumors of a drawdown were true. With minimal numbers and attention, the demonstrations have had little impact. But there doesn’t seem much else that those opposed to the war can do. Soldiers and reservists…

By Dahlia Scheindlin August 4, 2014

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Some 10,000 demonstrators march on the White House in Washington, D.C., to protest Israel's offensive in Gaza, August 2, 2014. (Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: 10,000 march on White House to protest Gaza offensive

Thousands converge on Washington, D.C. to protest Israel’s offensive on Gaza. Text and photos by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org Some 10,000 activists converged on the White House in Washington, D.C. this weekend to protest Israel’s offensive on Gaza. Politico reported that the event may have been “the largest pro-Palestinian march to take place in the United…

By Activestills August 3, 2014

A Youth rides a horse next to his unrecognised Bedouins villages in the Negev, Israel, December 10, 2013. According to the recently published Israeli Prawer-Begin plan map, some 40,000 Bedouin would be displaced and around 250,000 dunams of Bedouin land would be expropriated by the state. (photo: Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

Photos of the week: Bedouin perseverance and other protests

This week: Resisting displacement of Negev Bedouin, mourning Nelson Mandela, shootings of Palestinians by Israeli forces, marching in Nabi Saleh, protesting conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews, taking action for animal rights, and seeking asylum for Afghan refugees.

By Activestills December 12, 2013

Subhiyeh Abu Rahmeh cries near the memorial monument for her son, Bassem, who in a 2009 protest was shot and killed with a high-velocity tear gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier, Bil'in, West Bank, October 4, 2013. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

From Bil’in memorial to breaking down barriers: A week in photos September 28-October 4

This week: Memorials for those killed protesting the separation barrier, weekly protests against the occupation, Palestinians and internationals destroy an Israeli barrier, Palestinians return to their land after 35 years, and more.

By Activestills October 5, 2013

Palestinians celebrate as they wait for the arrival of prisoners freed from Israeli detention in the headquarters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 14, 2013. 26 Palestinian prisoners will be released, 15 to Gaza and 11 sent to West Bank, as part of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. (Photo: Activestills.org)

From prisoner releases to West Bank protests: A week in photos – August 8-14

This week: The release of pre-Oslo Palestinian prisoners, Eid at the sea, the return to villages destroyed in the Nakba, and weekly demonstrations against the occupation. See more photos: Released Palestinian prisoners arrive home to West Bank

By Activestills August 15, 2013

Demonstrators climb on a fence, built by the Israeli army to close Shuhada Street to Palestinians, in the West Bank city of Hebron February 22, 2013. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: In Hebron, demonstrators demand reopening of Shuhada Street

Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators, including foreign and Israeli activists, gathered in Hebron on Friday to mark the 19th anniversary since the IDF imposed a closure on the city’s Shuhada Street. The closure followed the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre, perpetrated by Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein, who went on a rampage inside the mosque and killed 29 Palestinian…

By Activestills February 23, 2013

Hundreds of Palestinians gather to watch the speech by President Mahmoud Abbas in the bid for Palestine's "non-member observer state" status at the United Nations, projected on the Israeli separation wall in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, November 29, 2012. Hours later, the UN General Assembly voted 138-9 in favor of the upgraded status for Palestine, with 41 nations abstaining. (photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

A week in photos: November 29 – December 5

The Palestinian statehood bid, the ruins of Gaza, nurses strike in Israel, and more: Activestills images tell the stories of the week.

By Activestills December 6, 2012

A Palestinian youth uses his sling shot to throw back a tear gas canister shot by the Israeli army during the weekly protest against the occupation in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, November 23, 2012. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

A week in photos: November 22-28

The aftermath of the Gaza offensive, and more: Activestills images tell the stories of the week.

By Activestills November 29, 2012

An Israeli policeman attempts to control Palestinian activists demonstrating against the occupation, Gush Etzion junction, November 9, 2012.
Photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org

WATCH: Demonstrators block settlement junction in protest against the occupation

On Friday, Palestinians and internationals blocked the Gush Etzion junction in the southern West Bank, the central entry point leading to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, halting traffic for 15 minutes. The action sought to highlight the restriction of movement experienced by Palestinians on a daily basis throughout the occupied Palestinian Territories. One activist was…

By +972 Magazine November 10, 2012

An Israeli soldier prevents a Palestinian cameraman to document the house to house search conducted by the Israeli army in the center of the village during the weekly protest against the occupation and settlements in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, August 24, 2012. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

A week in photos: August 22-29

Demolitions and arrests in the West Bank, solidarity with Rachel Corrie’s family, preparing for war, and more. Activestills images tell the stories of the week. Activestills is a collective of Israeli, international and Palestinian photographers, united by a conviction that photography is a vehicle for political and social change. To stay updated on our latest images, like…

By Activestills August 30, 2012

A 4-year-old Palestinian child in intensive care at West Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital on August 18, 2012, a day after he was seriously injured in a firebomb attack by Israeli settlers on the taxi in which he was travelling with his family on the road from Bethlehem to Hebron, in the West Bank. The child, seen here with his grandmother, is from Nahalin, a small village west of Bethlehem that, after losing 60% of its lands to the nearby Israeli settlements, comes under regular attacks by Israeli settlers. In the attack, which happened as the family was on the way to a breakfast at the mother’s family in the Al-Arrub Refugee Camp and which took place in an area under exclusive Israeli security control, two children, the mother and father and the driver were seriously injured. (photo: JC/Activestills.org)

A week in photos: August 14-21

A new regular feature from the Activestills photography collective. Each week, we will bring you a selection of our most compelling images from movements for political and social change throughout Palestine and Israel. Activestills is a collective of Israeli, international and Palestinian photographers, united by a conviction that photography is a vehicle for…

By Activestills August 22, 2012