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Palestinian children dressed in the colors of the Palestinian flag, at the protest encampment in Gaza east of Shujaiya. (Mohammed Zaanoun / Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Life inside Gaza’s Return March protest camp

This is what happens at the protest camp when the IDF isn’t shooting — and when the world isn’t looking. Photos by Mohammed Zaanoun (Activestills.org), text by Mohammed Zaanoun and +972 Magazine Staff On Fridays, the Gaza tent encampment near the Israeli border fence is a deadly zone. Israel snipers have opened fire on Palestinian demonstrators for…

By Activestills April 12, 2018

Palestinian, Israeli and international Jewish activists build a protest camp in Surara, West Bank, May 19, 2017. (Photo: Ahmad Bazz/Activestills.org)

Palestinians, Israelis and diaspora Jews build West Bank protest camp

Hundreds of activists, organized by a coalition of Palestinian, Israeli and American Jewish groups, built an encampment in Surara, from where Palestinians had been expelled in the 1990s. By +972 Magazine staff Around 300 Palestinians, Israelis and diaspora Jewish activists staged a direct action in the village of Sarura in the south Hebron hills of…

By +972 Magazine May 19, 2017

Palestinian activists raise a flag at the ‘Yasser Arafat outpost,’ a nonviolent action protesting two new Israeli settlement outposts in the area, Jordan Valley, West Bank, November 17, 2016. (Flash90)

The different ways Israel treats Jewish, Palestinian outposts in the West Bank

Palestinian activists protest Israeli attempts to ‘legalize’ settlement outposts by erecting one of their own. Unlike two nearby Jewish outposts, however, the Israeli army demolishes the Palestinian camp within hours. Dozens of Palestinian activists erected an “outpost” in the Jordan Valley Thursday, in protest of recent Israeli army demolitions of Palestinian homes in the area,…

By Haggai Matar November 19, 2016

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Women Wage Peace sit in their protest tent on the first day of their fast. (photo: Michael Salisbury-Corech)

Jewish, Arab women establish protest tent outside PM’s residence

One year after Operation Protective Edge, a group of 30 women are fasting for the next month to pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu to return to negotiations. By Michael Salisbury-Corech At the entrance to the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem, nearly 30 women are sitting on mattresses, surrounded by banners calling for peace negotiations. One of…

By +972 Magazine July 10, 2015

Planting olive saplings in Kfar Yassuf, February 4, 2015. (Photo: Cindy Katz/RHR)

Knesset candidates plant olive trees with Palestinian farmers

Palestinian activists build new protest camp near Jerusalem to protest displacement of West Bank Bedouin, settlement expansion; the Israeli army dismantles the camp. Over 100 Israeli activists, among them four Knesset candidates in the upcoming elections, joined Palestinian farmers in from the West Bank village of Kfar Yassuf to plant olive saplings to mark the…

By Haggai Matar February 5, 2015