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Snow around the separation wall that surrounds the Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, February 20, 2015. (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Snow on Jerusalem’s holy and unholy monuments

Snow blankets Jerusalem and the hilly West Bank late Thursday and Friday, shutting down roads and highways, covering holy sites and the separation wall alike. In Gaza, heavy rain causes flooding in the war-torn Strip. Related: The storm that only affects Jews PHOTOS: Denied services, Palestinian residents form emergency response team

By Activestills February 21, 2015

Palestinian scouts march and play music during a ceremony commemorating the birth of Prophet Mohammed, a holiday known in Arabic as Mawlid al-Nabawi, next to the Dome of the Rock in Al Aqsa compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, January 3, 2015. (photo: Activestills.org)

A Month in Photos: Police violence, elections and the holy selfie

Editors’ picks of the top photos from Palestine, Israel and beyond for the month of January. This month, terror attacks in France and Tel Aviv, Bedouin citizens of Israel protest against police violence, Israel’s election campaign gets into full swing, Hezbollah attacks the Israeli army on the Lebanese border and snow falls on the West…

By Activestills January 30, 2015

"A Jewish couple came up and decided he needed eyes, joined by a Palestinian group who wanted to give him a new hat." (Photo: Michelle Bubis)

First Person: A weekend in ‘besieged’ Jerusalem

How apt, and catchy, that the city was cut off from the rest of the country on the very anniversary of the Babylonian siege, over 2,000 years ago, which led to the destruction of the First Temple and basically the beginning of Jewish exile from Zion. By Michelle Bubis Last night, I finally opened my bedroom…

By +972 Magazine December 15, 2013

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Shuhada Street in Hebron under snow, Dec 14, 2013 (Photo: Issa Amro)

PHOTO: ‘Snow makes everyone equal for a day on Hebron’s Shuhada St.’

Since the Middle East is normally a hot and dry place without much more than heat waves for meteorologists to report, it can be quite a big story when the weather turns stormy as it did this past weekend. The magnitude of snow, which spread across the region from Jerusalem to Cairo, Homs, Lebanon’s Bekaa…

By Mairav Zonszein December 15, 2013

WATCH: Palestinian teens attack Orthodox Jews with snowballs in Jerusalem

This video, of Palestinian teens attacking Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem, really made me sick. Related PHOTOS: Under the fresh white Jerusalem snow, hatred still bubbles A week in photos: January 3-9

By Noam Sheizaf January 12, 2013

The Separation Wall between Shu'fat and Pisgat Zeev settlement, seen covered with snow after a winter storm, January 10, 2013. (Photo by: Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)

A week in photos: January 3-9

This week: Snow blankets the region, homeless Israelis and Palestinians cope with the storm, repression of hunger strikers extends to their families, and Palestinian residents of Israel and the West Bank resist demolition and displacement.

By Activestills January 10, 2013