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Soldiers were shooting tear gas and rubber bullets while local youths answered with stones (Oren Ziv / Activestills)
The only way to stop stone throwing is to end the occupation
If Israel was serious about restoring security to its capital, it would recognize the Palestinian claim to East Jerusalem and find a way for all residents to live in dignity. Trying to make good on his promise to restore quiet in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Netanyahu and his cabinet approved an amendment to Israel’s penal code…
By Mairav Zonszein November 2, 2014
Three-year-old Firas Farhat lives with his brother, father and mother in a makeshift tent on a sidewalk outside Shifa Hospital. Their home in Gaza's Shejaiya neighborhood was destroyed by Israeli shelling. (photo: Samer Badawi)
How Israeli media obscures Palestinian humanity
Israeli media insists on portraying the West Bank as the Wild West and its Palestinian inhabitants as savage stone-throwers, all the while masking the reality of armed settlers and a trigger-happy military. By Talal Jabari If I were to describe a movie equivalent of the West Bank in words, it would be part way between…
By +972 Magazine August 31, 2014
A Border Policeman looks on as a six-year-old Palestinian and a settler child share a moving moment. Almost. (screenshot: YouTube)
WATCH: After handshake, settler child throws stone at six-year-old Palestinian
One activist captures what was almost a moving moment between a six-year-old Palestinian and a settler child in the occupied south Hebron Hills. Almost.  In a video filmed by Amir Bitan, an Israeli Ta’ayush activist, Thamer Ibrahim Alayan, a 6-year-old Palestinian child from the Umm al Ara’is village in the South Hebron Hills is seen…
By Mairav Zonszein October 5, 2013
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