repression of nonviolence

Palestinian activist Mohammad Brijiah and his twin 3-year-old sons confront Israeli forces blocking the road from their West Bank village of Al Ma'sara during a weekly demonstration against the separation barrier, September 6, 2013. If built as planned, the wall would cut off the village from its agricultural lands.
PHOTOS: Israeli army arrests Palestinian activist at nonviolent demonstration
At one of the most consistently peaceful weekly demonstrations against the Israeli occupation, soldiers arrest a Palestinian activist in front of his three-year-old twin sons. Friday, September 6, Israeli forces arrested Palestinian activist Mohammad Brijiah at the weekly demonstration against the separation wall in the West Bank village of Al Ma’sara. Brijiah’s twin three-year-old sons…
By Activestills September 7, 2013
Soldiers attack demonstrators in Beit Umar, West Bank (photo: Joseph Dana)
IDF hopes Palestinians will be violent
Some people in Israel are still naïve enough to think that the IDF’s task is to ensure the security of Israel and its residents. Here is what a senior officer serving in the West Bank told Ha’aretz (full credit for all the bizarre syntax and grammar errors in the following quotes should be given to…
By Roi Maor March 9, 2011
Children in Nabi Saleh. Photo: Activestills.org
Harsh Interrogations of Children Escalate in Nabi Saleh
14 year old Islam Tamimi was arrested in a night raid on Sunday 23 January 2011 and subjected to psychological torture in order to extract dictated false testimony that will be used to incriminate and prosecute villagers in Nabi Saleh. In an escalation of the repression of unarmed demonstration in the West Bank, 14 year…
By Joseph Dana January 31, 2011
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