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Palestinian security forces wearing face masks block the entrance to the West Bank city of Bethlehem, March 8, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

West Bank lockdowns didn’t start with the coronavirus pandemic

The principles that have guided Israeli governments through 52 years of occupation seem to be informing the response to coronavirus in the occupied territories.

By Lior Amihai March 11, 2020

Palestinians take part in a protest against the Israeli military closure of the main entrance to Qalqas, near Hebron, which was imposed during the Second Intifada, West Bank, March 17, 2017. (Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Palestinian village protests 17 years of military closure

The main entrance to the West Bank village of Qalqas has been closed since the Second Intifada. The residents are having none of it. Photos and text: Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org Some 250 Palestinian residents of the West Bank village of Qalqas, south of Hebron, protested on Friday against the Israeli military’s closure of their village’s main entrance,…

By Activestills March 19, 2017

Illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walking past an Arab shopkeeper in the Old City of Jerusalem. (Gil Yaari/Flash90)

Seeing the ‘other’ on Yom Kippur, in Jerusalem

On Yom Kippur in 1967, the Year of Forgetting, I put on my dark holiday clothes and walked to the Old City of Jerusalem. For a long time I stood in front of an Arab’s hole-in-the-wall shop, not far from the Damascus Gate, a shop with buttons and zippers and spools of thread in every…

By Orly Noy October 11, 2016

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