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No, Israel’s Passover closure is not like lockdown under occupation
It's hard for Israeli Jews to be separated from loved ones due to the coronavirus. But their lockdown is temporary — for Palestinians, it's endless.
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Orly Noy
April 8, 2020
Gaza’s humanitarian crisis began long before Hamas
The deliberate suffocation of Gaza began in the 90s, when the first restrictions on the movement of Palestinians were introduced. By Amir Rotem A macabre drama has been playing out every Friday along the border fence separating the Gaza Strip and Israel, complete with live broadcasts, press coverage, commentary, and even real-time spectators. An armed military stands on…
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April 11, 2018
Seeing the ‘other’ on Yom Kippur, in Jerusalem
On Yom Kippur in 1967, the Year of Forgetting, I put on my dark holiday clothes and walked to the Old City of Jerusalem. For a long time I stood in front of an Arab’s hole-in-the-wall shop, not far from the Damascus Gate, a shop with buttons and zippers and spools of thread in every…
By
Orly Noy
October 11, 2016
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IN PHOTOS: A life of constant dread for one Palestinian village
The West Bank village of Hizma, surrounded entirely by the separation wall, is the victim of daily harassment by the army and the police. That hasn’t stopped the residents from opening their homes and businesses to Israeli Jews — even the settlers who live next door. Text and photos by Tamar Flesichman For the 7,000 residents of the West…
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+972 Magazine
July 9, 2016
WATCH: Three days under military closure in Qabatiya
West Bank town put under closure following last week’s deadly attack on Israeli Border Police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City. Photos and text by: Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills.org After three days of strict military closure, the Israeli army lifted its blockade Saturday evening on the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank. The blockade…
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Activestills
February 7, 2016
What Netanyahu can easily offer Obama on Gaza
Three ‘gestures’ Israel can easily make that will radically improve the lives of at least thousands of Palestinians — all without compromising one inch on its own security concerns. By Amir Rotem In the hall of mirrors that is international diplomacy, all is being polished for the Netanyahu-Obama summit. Lists of gifts the two are…
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November 9, 2015
How Palestinians can prevent a new permit regime in Jerusalem
The history of Israel’s permit regime in the West Bank should serve as a warning that even temporary closures on Palestinian neighborhoods of Jerusalem can have in serious, long-term political consequences. By Yael Berda After a violent couple of weeks in Jerusalem, the Israeli government gave police discretion to impose a closure on certain East…
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October 18, 2015
A song was born: The tale of a controversial tune
Six or seven years ago, I was sitting in Tel Aviv’s Cafe Ginzburg with a man I admire deeply. Mikhael Manekin was then, along with Yehuda Shaul, one of heads of Breaking the Silence. BTS was still a budding organization at the time, made up entirely of Israeli soldiers who participated in the occupation and…
By
Yuval Ben-Ami
October 15, 2012
Who can travel from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank?
Soccer players yes, poets nein The people of Gisha NGO translated their table showing who can and who can’t travel from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. Here it is. Note that for a person to be allowed to travel from the Strip in the first place, the IDF and the ISA (Shin…
By
Yossi Gurvitz
January 26, 2012
A month since flotilla report legitimizing Gaza Strip blockade
The Palmer Committee did not really investigate the IDF’s attack on the Gaza Flotilla in May 2010; instead, it sought diplomatic compromise By Eyal Clyne The release of the report of the UN-appointed Palmer Panel a month ago was nothing less than a source of pride for Israeli speakers, who repeatedly emphasised its ruling that…
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+972 Magazine
October 14, 2011
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