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A Palestinian child with ash on his face sits in one of the newly established camps with metal caravan shelters for displaced people in the village of Khuza’a, eastern Gaza Strip, November 9, 2014. (photo: Activestills.org)

Photos of the month: Jerusalem ignites while Gaza still smolders

As violence increased in Jerusalem, residents of war-torn Gaza continued struggling to survive and cope with slow reconstruction and approaching winter weather. These and other images in our month in photos, November 2014. …

By Activestills December 1, 2014

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47 years of occupation: Every photo tells a story

Marking 47 years of the Israeli occupation since 1967, we asked Activestills photographers to choose one photograph from their archive and write about it. Oren Ziv Going every week to the protests in West Bank village of Bil’in, I knew most of the people who were attending the demonstrations. One of them was Bassem Abu Rahme,…

By Activestills June 7, 2014

An Israeli border policeman orders a Palestinian photographer to leave the area near the wall during the weekly protest against the wall and then occupation in the West Bank village of Bil'in, August 30, 2013. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

From Prawer Plan protests to house demolitions: A week in photos – August 29 – September 4

This week: Demonstrations agains the occupation, Prawer-Begin Plan protests, house demolitions, gas mask distribution and settlements behind walls.

By Activestills September 6, 2013

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Photo essay: Al-Araqib Bedouin’s ongoing struggle for their land

Photos by: Oren Ziv, Yotam Ronen, and Keren Manor/Activestills.org Al-Araqib is one of the 45 “unrecognized” Bedouin villages in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Since July 27, 2010, the village has been demolished 39 times. Despite daily harassment, ongoing house demolitions and the Israeli government’s determination to forcefully transfer the Bedouin population out of…

By Activestills August 11, 2012