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Hundreds of Palestinian and Israeli activists march in an anti-occupation, pro-peace rally on Road 60, the West Bank’s main north-south highway, July 7, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Hundreds march against occupation on major West Bank highway

Palestinian and Israeli anti-occupation and pro-peace groups march along main settler highway. MK Ayman Odeh calls for Palestinian statehood while putting an end to ‘the racist discourse of separation.’ Hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis marched along a major highway used by settlers in the West Bank on Friday demanding an end to the occupation and…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 7, 2017

‘There is another way’: Palestinians, Israelis march together against the occupation

Roughly 300 Palestinians and Israelis marched along a major West Bank highway Friday afternoon to demand an end to the occupation and to protest Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The monthly protest march is deliberately held on a road that both Palestinians and Israeli settlers use, with the intention of demonstrating a joint Palestinian-Israeli anti-occupation…

By +972 Magazine April 1, 2016

Police detain activists for filming in Paris Square

When filming a protest ‘endangers state security’

Anti-occupation activists say that two soldiers threatened them, and when they called police, the cops detained them instead — on suspicion of endangering state security. By Michael Salisbury-Corech Like every week the past 26 years, a group called “Women in Black” held a demonstration against the occupation in Jerusalem’s Paris Square last Friday. Across the street,…

By +972 Magazine December 6, 2015

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Palestinians from the West Bank village of Al Zaeem call for the opening of the Separation Wall gate that leads from Jerusalem to the village, May 8, 2015. The gate is held closed by Israeli authorities for over two weeks. Ahmad al-Bazz / Activestills.org

PHOTOS: West Bank villagers protest: Open our gate!

A-Zaim’s only gateway to East Jerusalem has been closed since a 16-year-old resident carried out an alleged stabbing attempt last month. By Ahmad al-Bazz / Activestills.org Residents of A-Zaim, a village in the West Bank, protested on Friday against the ongoing closure of a gate in the separation wall, which is their only gateway to…

By Activestills May 9, 2015

Police arrest a protester at a demonstration by Israelis of Ethiopian descent against police in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, May 3, 2015. (Activestills.org)

Beyond racism: What’s keeping Ethiopian-Israelis down?

Racism is a severe problem for the community — and the country — but that doesn’t fully explain the difficulties faced by Ethiopian-Israelis. To the extent that they were protesting against face-to-face racism from “white” Israelis, the thousands of Ethiopian Israelis who raised hell in Tel Aviv Sunday night had more than a legitimate gripe.…

By Larry Derfner May 4, 2015

Thousands in Gaza plan int’l protest: It’s impossible to live here

A group of young activists in Gaza are organizing an international day of solidarity to protest against the impossible conditions and human rights violations created by Israel’s and Egypt’s siege, the occupation, internal Palestinian conflicts and poverty. By Yael Marom “Life in Gaza has always been hard. But after Israel’s last attack it became impossible…

By +972 Magazine April 19, 2015

Abdullah Abu Rahmah at his trial in the Ofer Military Court, September 15, 2010. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

IDF court convicts Palestinian non-violent organizer, EU human rights defender

Israeli military court convicts Abdullah Abu Rahmah of obstructing a bulldozer building the separation barrier. His previous trial and imprisonment was followed closely by western governments. Abdullah Abu Rahmah, one of the central organizers of the popular resistance protests against the separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bil’in, was convicted of obstructing the work…

By Haggai Matar October 23, 2014

Palestinians ride in the village of Juhor ad-Dik, eastern Gaza Strip, September 8, 2014. Juhor ad-Dik is located very close to the border with Israel and came under heavy attack during the latest offensive. Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered the area and destroyed many homes, farmland, and trees.

The month in photos: Building Gaza anew, building new settlements

The most compelling images of September’s top stories in Palestine, Israel and beyond. This month: Rebuilding Gaza, new settlements in East Jerusalem, anti-occupation protests in the West Bank, Palestinian teen’s killers on trial, and poor Tel Aviv residents lose a long fight to keep their homes. More photos: Living in the ruins of a…

By Activestills October 1, 2014

Palestinian women argue with an Israeli soldiers, after a Palestinian youth was shot with live ammunition and was taken by the army, during the weekly protest against the occupation, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, August 15, 2014. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

Photos of the week: Ceasefire begins and ends

This week: Palestinian and Israeli protests across the political, ethnic and religious spectrum; homes and property damaged and destroyed in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel; aid for those suffering; and a wedding under protest. Related: Wedding crashers: Do anti-miscegenation protesters hate or love Judaism? 10,000 protest in Tel Aviv for a just peace, end…

By Activestills August 22, 2014

Some 10,000 demonstrators march on the White House in Washington, D.C., to protest Israel's offensive in Gaza, August 2, 2014. (Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: 10,000 march on White House to protest Gaza offensive

Thousands converge on Washington, D.C. to protest Israel’s offensive on Gaza. Text and photos by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org Some 10,000 activists converged on the White House in Washington, D.C. this weekend to protest Israel’s offensive on Gaza. Politico reported that the event may have been “the largest pro-Palestinian march to take place in the United…

By Activestills August 3, 2014

Police stopping right-wing nationalists from attacking left wing activists during a protest in central Tel Aviv against the Israeli attack on Gaza, July 12, 2014. The protest ended with the nationalists attacking a small group of left-wing activists with little police interference. (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

The night it became dangerous to demonstrate in Tel Aviv

The fascists attacked. Police didn’t respond in time and ran away when the sirens wailed. We were lucky to get away with only three injured, one in the hospital and many traumatized. (Translated from Hebrew by Michael Sappir) When the sirens wailed in Tel Aviv last night one thing was clear to us: the fascists in…

By Haggai Matar July 13, 2014

A Palestinian runner pushes a friend in a wheelchair along the Israeli separation wall dividing the West Bank town of Bethlehem during the second annual Palestine Marathon, April 11, 2014. Some 2,500 Palestinian and 700 international runners participated in 5K, 10K, half marathon and full marathon races under the title “Right to Movement”. Full marathon runners had to complete two laps of the same route, as organizers were unable to find a single course of 42 uninterrupted kilometers under Palestinian Authority control.

Photos of the week: Mourners, matzah and marathons

This week: A bystander’s funeral, a settlement is born in Hebron, a Passover for past and present strangers in the land, remains from a house demolition, love wins in the Palestine Marathon, remembering a massacre, petitioning the Pope, and a masquerade in Al Ma’sara.

By Activestills April 18, 2014

Palestinians, accompanied by international and Israeli solidarity activists, march to commemorate seven years of popular resistance in the West Bank village of Al Ma'sara, October 25, 2013. The weekly demonstration protests the construction of the Israeli separation wall on village land, which would cut off access to agricultural areas. (Photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

West Bank village marks 7 years of popular resistance

The markedly stone-free protests in al Ma’asara are nevertheless violently suppressed by the Israeli army. “We see the soldiers here with their guns, their boots, their shields and their helmets protecting the wall – but we know the real problem is the wall that is in their minds,” protest leader says. About 200 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists…

By Haggai Matar October 25, 2013