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Palestinian children in Nabi Saleh place flowers in spent tear gas canisters fired by Israeli soldiers at past protests against the occupation, April 10, 2015.
PHOTOS: Answering tear gas with flowers
Photos and text by Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Every Friday residents of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, along with Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, attempt to march to the village’s spring. The small spring was taken over by Israeli settlers from the nearby settlement of Halamish years ago, and the Israeli army now…
By Activestills April 14, 2015
A flower growing from a tear gas grenade hangs from razor wire near a memorial garden on the spot where, in a 2009 demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil'in, Bassem Abu Rahmah was shot and killed with a high-velocity tear gas grenade fired by Israeli soldiers, Bil'in, West Bank, October 4, 2013. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)
PHOTOS: What the press missed in Bil’in tear gas flower garden
A garden of flowers planted in used tear gas grenades memorializes Bassem Abu Rahmah, killed by Israeli forces in 2009 in Bil’in. But recent AP photo coverage looks mostly at the flowers and misses the memorial. Text by Elias Nawawieh Photos by Activestills.org The act is one of both peaceful resistance and an answer to…
By Activestills October 8, 2013
The passing valentine
He comes to be with her once a year, stays for barely three months, then vanishes. It’s been like that since who knows when. How can a love story last this way? Somehow it does. How can she take it? Somehow she does. She gladly accepts the gifts he brings: A green dress, always a…
By Yuval Ben-Ami February 13, 2011
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