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Popsicle against the occupation. The protestors offer popsicles to the soldiers sitting across from them. Qaddum, August 28, 2016. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Palestinian protestors offer soldiers popsicles, receive tear gas in return

The villagers of Kufr Qaddum look for a creative way to protest the occupation. Photos and text by Oren Ziv / Activestills.org About a hundred and fifty Palestinians, and a few Israelis, took part in a weekend demonstration against the settlements and occupation of Kafr Qaddum. The soldiers were waiting for them in the village,…

By Activestills August 28, 2016

An Israeli Policeman prepares to fire a sponge-tipped bullet during a Nakba Day demonstration in East Jerusalem, May 15, 2013. (Haim Schwarczenberg)

‘You can never know what weapons police are using in Israel’

A worldwide consortium of civil liberties groups just published new report, ‘Lethal in Disguise,’ on the health consequences of crowd control weapons, in which Israel features prominently. +972 Magazine speaks to one of the editors about how Israel fares compared to the rest of the world. An increase in popular protests worldwide over the last…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth March 17, 2016

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WATCH: Israeli companies export occupation technology

Dozens of companies involved in the Israeli combat, homeland security, and defense markets demonstrated their technologies during last week’s Tel Aviv Security Week Arms Expo. The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky headed to the conference to speak to representatives of the companies that help maintain the occupation through the building of walls, fences, checkpoints, or protest-suppression technologies. By…

By +972 Magazine June 9, 2014

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A press photographer helps his colleague which was hit from a tear gas canister shot by Israeli soldiers, during a protest against the occupation in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, December 23, 2011 (Photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)

New report details IDF crowd control measures that can kill

Crowd control measures have killed 10 protesters since 2005. Meet ‘the skunk,’ the tear gas canister and the rubber-coated bullet – just some of the measures the IDF uses against civilian Palestinian protesters in the West Bank. At least ten Palestinians have been killed by crowd control measures used by the IDF since 2005; 46…

By Noam Sheizaf January 28, 2013

Israeli soldiers raid the west bank village of Kfer Qaddum during the weekly demonstration against the occupation, October 5, 2012. (photo: Yotam Ronen/ Activestills.org)

A week in photos: October 4-10

By Activestills October 11, 2012

Nabi-Saleh-Arrests-16-12-11 (Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills)

Lesson from Israeli who chose jail, solidarity over segregation

For the first time in many years, an Israeli activist chose to put into practice the notion promoted by Henry David Thoreau: “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison…” Truth be told: We all should have acted like ‘A’. Every Friday, across the West…

By Haggai Matar December 20, 2011

Israeli refusing restraining order from Nabi Saleh released

UPDATE: An Israeli woman arrested during Friday’s demonstration in Nabi Saleh, who refused to sign an order forbidding her from entering Nabi Saleh for two weeks as a condition of her release, has today been released without conditions. **** Two dozen Palestinian, Israeli and international activists were arrested at a protest marking one week since…

By Dahlia Scheindlin December 18, 2011