Sderot

The scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants hit an apartment building in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, October 9, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

How Israel’s emergency plans widened the south’s class divides

Four teachers at an Ashkelon high school reveal how the state’s handling of Oct. 7 evacuees played into racial, economic, and geographic inequalities.

By Roy Cohen January 10, 2024

Sderot police station, after Israeli forces regain control of the building following its capture by Hamas militants, October 8, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

In photos: Israel loses control of the south

I have covered every Israeli attack on Gaza from the Israeli side since 2009, and I have never seen anything like this. Chaos pervades everything.

By Oren Ziv October 9, 2023

Avi Dabush who came in ninth at Meretz primaries after the release of the results in the primaries in Tel Aviv, February 14, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

This Israeli leftist wants his camp to break the Tel Aviv bubble

Activist and Meretz member Avi Dabush explains what the Israeli left gets wrong about towns like Sderot, their Mizrahim, and their views on Gaza.

By Noam Sheizaf November 30, 2021

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Women Asylum seekers and their children protest against the new detention center and call on the Israeli government to recognize their refugee rights, Tel Aviv, January 15, 2014. Asylum seekers marched from south Tel Aviv to the UNHCR offices and the US embassy, in an action following last week general strike and mass protests.

In Photos: Int’l Women’s Day in Israel-Palestine

Photos by Yotam Ronen, Anne Paq, Basel Yazouri, Oren Ziv, Faiz Abu Rmeleh, Ahmad al-Bazz, Keren Manor / Activestills.org From asylum seeker struggles to the assault on Gaza, women were on the front lines of some of the major struggles in Israel/Palestine. In honor of International Women’s Day, Activestills brings you the best photos of the…

By Activestills March 8, 2015

A Palestinian child with a kite stands in front of the destroyed Al Nada towers in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. The towers had 90 flats.

War on Gaza: A promise Israeli politicians can keep

As they head into elections, Netanyahu, Livni, Herzog, Lapid and Yishai can agree on one thing: even after nine military operations in 14 years, the only solution to the conflict with Gaza is another war with Hamas. By Yonatan Mendel Election season is upon us, which means that the country’s best copywriters and campaigners are likely…

By +972 Magazine January 9, 2015

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem (Haim Zach / GPO)

Israel’s watershed moment that wasn’t

Liberals abroad seem to think that for Israel, Operation Protective Edge was a turning point — a wake-up call telling this country that it couldn’t keep going on like this, from war to war to war with no chance for peace. +972 speaks to a number of powerful figures in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s inner circle,…

By Larry Derfner September 12, 2014

Comics by Ohad, age 11, from Sderot

How a sixth grader from Sderot draws the war

The Great Flood Collective (Hamabul), a community organization that seeks to use art in dealing with social and political issues, did a comics workshop for kids in Sderot who spent most of the summer holiday in bomb shelters. “We feared that the poisonous atmosphere will be visible in the drawings,” the activists wrote on Hamabul Facebook’s…

By +972 Magazine August 5, 2014

Funeral of Israeli soldier Banaya Rubel, Holon, Israel. Rubel was killed during clashes in Gaza. (photo: Activestills.org)

‘Finish the job’

This is the watchword in Israel today, no matter the price. Late last night (Monday), I was driving home from work and listening to the talk show hosted by Jojo Abutbul, who is sort of an old-time folk hero in this country – a Mizrahi Jew with down-to-earth wisdom. An Israeli common man. He speaks…

By Larry Derfner July 22, 2014

A child inspects the ruins of a house destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the Al Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, July 11, 2014.

Photos of the week: Running for cover and having nowhere to run

This week: Protests in the West Bank, U.S. and Tel Aviv as Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip kill 121 Palestinians, including at least 27 children, and injuring more than 800. Related: Why are there are no white flags in Gaza? Blame Israel…

By Activestills July 12, 2014

An Israeli woman runs for shelter in Sderot, July 9, 2014. (Social TV)

WATCH: A voice of peace on the Gaza border

For 14 years, the Israeli communities in the Gaza vicinity have dealt with regular rocket and mortar attacks. But not everyone shares the hardline views most often heard when news cameras show up. As ‘Operation Protective Edge’ began this past week, Social TV went to the area and found some different voices. Related: Live blog:…

By Social TV July 11, 2014

Amir Farshad Ebrahimi (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Let’s talk about Gaza, Sderot and the racist valuation of lives

A frank discussion about everything we don’t mention when talking about rockets and bombs and Gaza. Let’s talk about fear, about poverty, about angst and about racism. By Lilach Ben David Let’s talk about Gaza. Let’s talk about a small strip of land that god didn’t forget about, but about which we are certainly trying to…

By +972 Magazine July 8, 2014

A Palestinian man and boy react to the sound of a Israeli warplane, flying at very low altitude above the ruins of the government building, which was completely destroyed that morning. Gaza city, November 17, 2012 (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

It’s time to talk about Gaza

For the sake of both the residents of Israel’s south and the Palestinians, we must speak about Gaza as a place with real people, rather than as a science experiment. Over the past few years, the Israeli public discussion has reduced conditions in Gaza to one of two situations: either it’s the place where rockets…

By Haggai Matar July 3, 2014

SJP member holds Palestinian flag in front of make-shift coffins at Sproul Plaza on Jan. 21, 2009. SJP was protesting the Israeli attacks on Gaza, Palestine which took place on December 2008 through January 2009. (photo: Ramsey Al-qare)

How a Jewish Agency fellow becomes a one-state activist

When Gila Hashkes arrived at UC Berkeley as a Jewish Agency Israel Fellow, she felt like she was jumping into the heart of pro-Palestinian activism. Her job was to organize Jewish students on campus, strengthen their connection to Israel and give them tools to justify its policies. But after a year-long journey of digging deeper…

By +972 Magazine September 7, 2013