Road 443

Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. (Stephanie Kenner/Shutterstock)

What occupation looks like for Rashida Tlaib’s village in the West Bank

Forty years of land grabs, settlement expansion, and the building of a highway that is off limits to Palestinians. This is what is happening to Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s village. By Dror Etkes The West Bank village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa made headlines over the weekend, after Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib announced she would not accept…

By +972 Magazine August 18, 2019

Route 4370, known as the 'apartheid road,' just east of Jerusalem, West Bank. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israel’s new ‘apartheid road’ is about more than just segregation

Israel claims the new road, which separates Israelis and Palestinians by an eight-meter wall, alleviates traffic for settlers while helping Palestinians travel around the West Bank. Human rights activists say it will help create Israeli-only enclaves free of any Palestinian presence. Israel unveiled a new segregated highway in the occupied West Bank last week, with a giant eight-meter…

By Edo Konrad January 16, 2019

The final photo. Mahmoud Badran (first on the right) and his friends, who went for an evening swim at the pool and finished off the night riddled with bullets. (Photo courtesy of B'Tselem)

Justice will never be the norm under occupation

A 15-year-old boy is shot and killed, and the soldiers who shot him — in violation of army regulations — will likely never see the inside of a prison cell. The situation is both outrageous, and the most normative end to this story and countless others just like it. The Israeli soldier and army officer…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 19, 2018

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Qalandiya checkpoint,
West Bank, February 25,
2016. (Activestills)

Shot in the head by the IDF? Your entry permit is now revoked

An IDF officer opened fire on a Palestinian taxi, killing a 15-year-old boy, and wounding five others. The driver, who was shot in the head, returned from the hospital to discover his work and entry permits had been revoked. By John Brown* On Tuesday, June 21 at 1:30 a.m., an officer from the IDF’s Kfir…

By +972 Magazine August 6, 2016

The area around the tomb/mosque where the Palestinian village of Nabi Samuel used to stand, and which has now been incorporated into a 3,500-dunam Israeli national park. (Photo: Mareike Lauken and Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

Living inside an invisible cage: Welcome to Nabi Samuel

‘To bring in gas we need a permit. To bring in sacks of flour in we need a permit. And when we get a permit, we arrive at the checkpoint and they tell us we have no permit.’ By Moriel Rothman There are only 10 homes left in the small Palestinian village of Nabi Samuel,…

By +972 Magazine May 18, 2014

Palestinians use hammers to break through the separation wall in the West Bank village of Bir Nabala. (photo: Activestills)

PHOTOS: Palestinians destroy separation barrier in two West Bank villages

During the early hours of Friday morning, Palestinians in two Palestinian villages took part in a “direct action” to destroy parts of the separation barrier. In Bir Nabala, located on the other side of Route 443, Palestinians used hammers to break open a hole in the wall, while Palestinians in Rafat (near the Ofer Military…

By Activestills November 15, 2013

111 kilometers, one day: A journey from E1 to Tel Aviv

Israel is threatening to bisect the West Bank by building in the E1 area, between the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem. A photographic journey shot in medium format film – starting east of Jerusalem, through the west of the city and all the way to Tel Aviv – provides portraits of how different rights…

By Activestills December 10, 2012

Bassem Tamimi being arrested in the Shaar Binyamin settlement today (photo: flickr/Activestills)

Palestinians beaten, arrested during protest at settlement supermarket

Approximately 100 Palestinians and a handful of international activists entered the Rami Levy supermarket in the West Bank settlement of Sha’ar Binyamin Wednesday morning to ‘protest occupation and settler terror’ and to call for the boycott of ‘the occupation and its products.’ Two Palestinians and two internationals were beaten and arrested. Palestinian and international activists…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat October 24, 2012

Israeli soldiers arrest Ashraf Abu Rahma from Bilin, as Palestinian and international activists block Road 443, which connects Tel Aviv and Jerusalem through the West Bank, during a protest against the violence of the Israeli settlers, October 16, 2012. The direct action was organized to protest increasing settler attacks against Palestinians and their property during the current olive harvest season. Road 443 is built on Palestinian land but Palestinian access is severely restricted. (photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

A week in photos: October 11-17

Olive harvests in the West Bank, protests against settler violence, refugees from Israel to Germany demonstrate for the their rights, and more: Activestills images tell the stories of the week.

By Activestills October 18, 2012

Israeli soldiers arrest Mohammad Khatib of the West Bank village of Bilin, as Palestinian and international activists block Road 443, October 16, 2012. (photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

Photos: Palestinians block Route 443 to protest settler violence

On Tuesday, a group of Palestinians and internationals managed to block Route 443, which connects Jerusalem to Tel Aviv through the West bank, with only extremely limited access for Palestinians on whose land it is built. The demonstration took the IDF by surprise, and blocked traffic for approximately 30 minutes. According to Ma’an News: Since 2002,…

By Activestills October 17, 2012

Palestinian activists wrapped in chains in solidarity with prisoners in Israeli jails confront heavily armed Israeli soldiers during a weekly nonviolent demonstration against the separation wall, Al Ma'sara, West Bank, September 14, 2012. If completed as planned, the barrier will cut off the village from agricultural lands owned by its residents. The previous day also marked 19th anniversary of the Oslo interim peace accords, renewing calls for the release of prisoners jailed before the agreement was signed. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

A week in photos: September 13-19

Palestinians call for the release of their relatives from Israeli jails, Al-Araqib residents recover from another demolition, and Occupy Wall Street marks its one-year anniversary. Activestills images tell the stories of the week.

By Activestills September 20, 2012

Palestinian Organizer Tortured in Israeli Jail, 23.03.2010 (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Knesset extends legislation that facilitates torture

The Knesset has extended temporary legislation under which interrogations of security prisoners are exempt from requirements to visually record the investigation, Haaretz recently reported. The security establishment pushed hard to make the law permanent; Haaretz reports that opposition by two of the democratic-leaning Likud members, Dan Meridor and Michael Eitan, as well as human rights…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 8, 2012

Souad Massi, who recently performed in Ramallah (photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Ramallah & Tel-Aviv: So close, yet so far

On his way back to Tel Aviv, after attending in Ramallah the concert of Algerian singer Souad Massi, Issa Edward Bourseh contemplates the actual distance between the two cities By Issa Edward Bourseh I took that long tortuous ride to Ramallah on Tuesday to watch Souad Massi, THE Algerian singer, perform at the Palestine International…

By +972 Magazine July 8, 2011