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A bloodied Palestinian protester is seen at a protest in the eastern Gaza Strip that left six Palestinians dead and over 130 injured when IDF troops opened fire over the border, Gaza Strip, 9 October, 2015. (Ezz Za'noun)

How Israel is predetermining a violent outcome for Gaza return march

Security officials have launched a public campaign painting the ‘Great Return March’ as a violent, Hamas-sponsored event. Israel has never needed excuses to violently suppress Palestinian protests, which makes this a priori justification of violence all the more worrying. Israel’s senior-most defense policy official once famously told American diplomats that “we don’t do Gandhi very…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man March 29, 2018

Palestinian farmers walk in their fields, Ein Al Bedia, West Bank. (Ahmad Al Bazz/Activestills.org)

Israel cuts off water to Palestinian village for a week

Ein al-Beida is one of only a few Palestinian villages in the Jordan Valley area of the West Bank that are even connected to the water grid. Photos and text by Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills.org Some 50 Palestinians from the northern West Bank village of Ein al-Beida staged a protest last week against an Israeli…

By Activestills September 11, 2017

Young Palestinians chant slogans during the annual Land Day march from Sakhnin to Deir Hanna, in northern Israel, March 30, 2017. (Haidi Motola/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Thousands of Palestinians march to commemorate Land Day

Thousands march across Israel and the occupied territories to commemorate 41 years since security forces shot dead six Palestinians for protesting land expropriations. Hundreds of Palestinians took part in marches across Israel on Wednesday and Thursday to mark “Land Day,” commemorating the six Palestinian citizens killed by Israeli forces in 1976. The events began on Wednesday in a torch-lit march…

By Activestills March 30, 2017

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Palestinian women at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip confront Israeli soldiers over the mistreatment and arrest of Palestinian youths. (photo: Robert Croma / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Fact Sheet: 25th anniversary of the First Intifada

Twenty-five years ago this past weekend, a large-scale popular uprising by Palestinians began against Israel’s then 20-year-old military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. Sparked by an incident in which four Palestinians were hit and killed by an Israeli driving in Gaza on December 8, 1987, Palestinian frustration at living under repressive…

By +972 Resources December 10, 2012

From Ofer to Ramle: Impressions of protests across the Green Line

From the River to the Sea, Palestinians are prevented from protesting freely for their rights. Yesterday, I attended my first Palestinian demonstration across the Green Line, in front of Ramle Prison. Having been to many protests in the West Bank I was eager to assess the differences between the two events and how the Israeli…

By Omar H. Rahman May 4, 2012

Mustafa Tamimi's injured head wrapped in a kuffiyeh (photo: Lazar Simeonov)

Nabi Saleh protester hit by tear gas canister dies from wounds

UPDATED: Mustafa Tamimi, 28, died this morning at Belinson Hospital after sustaining critical wounds yesterday in the village of Nabi Saleh when an Israeli soldier fired a tear gas canister directly at his head from a short distance. His funeral will depart from Ramallah to Nabi Saleh tomorrow (Sunday) at 9:30 A.M. A protest against the…

By Omar H. Rahman December 9, 2011

In West Bank, peaceful Palestinian opposition marches on

By Raghad Jaraisy (1) The day: December 10, 2009. The time: Somewhere between sunrise and the first pangs of lunchtime hunger. The place: Tel Aviv and A-Nabi Salah – so near and so far. The scene: For the first time, we marched together in a festival of democracy and human rights that occupied the streets of…

By +972 Magazine December 7, 2011