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The fight to expose Israel’s arms sales to the world’s most repressive regimes
In the span of less than 10 years, activists from across the political spectrum went head to head with the Israeli government, trying to bring an end to its arms exports to tyrannical governments worldwide.
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Sahar Vardi
December 25, 2019
Gazans invite Israeli activists over for tea
As Israeli soldiers shot at Palestinian demonstrators, Gazan and Israeli activists join each other — on two sides of the fence — for tea, a symbolic act of longing for a day without barriers and aggression. By Dalit Baum Last Friday at dusk, I shared a picnic blanket with dear friends, on a country hill, near…
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+972 Magazine
September 12, 2018
Palestinian women lead latest march on Israel-Gaza border
This was the first time since the start of the Great Return demonstrations, during which Israeli snipers have killed well over 100 and wounded thousands, that the march was led by women. By Meron Rapoport Thousands of Palestinian women took part in march on the border fence separating the Gaza Strip and Israel on Tuesday, in…
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+972 Magazine
July 4, 2018
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Hundreds protest in Nabi Saleh to demand freedom for Tamimi women
Israeli forces try to prevent demonstrators from reaching the village, and fire barrages of tear gas at demonstrators. Roughly 300 people — Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals — marched in the West Bank village on Nabi Saleh on Saturday to demand that Israel free the Tamimi family women, 16-year-old Ahed and her mother, Nariman, as well…
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Haggai Matar
January 13, 2018
Trump protests evoke memories of the Second Intifada
We stayed home from school for more than three months. When we returned, more than half of the class was gone. They say children always pay the highest price. By Zizo Abul Hawa I was nearly 13 when the Second Intifada started. We were in school when Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount. School ended…
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December 12, 2017
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,…
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Activestills
August 28, 2016
‘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…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
March 17, 2016
PHOTOS: Palestinian Santa Clauses clash with Border Police in Bethlehem
Protesters held up posters with messages such as ‘For Christmas I want every Palestinian child back home.’ By Anne Paq and Mustafa Bader / Activestills.org A week before Christmas, Palestinians dressed up as Santa Claus marched toward the separation wall in Bethlehem last Friday, where they clashed with Israeli Border Police. The protesters chanted slogans…
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Activestills
December 20, 2015
The Palestinian village that refuses to give up on popular struggle
Even after 11 years of struggle, the residents of Bil’in refuse to forget about the land that was taken from them. The year was 2006. The village Bil’in near Ramallah had already marked over a year of weekly protests against the separation barrier that cuts them off from their land. One day, during a hearing…
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Haggai Matar
December 12, 2015
PHOTOS: Showing Israeli soldiers the red card in Nabi Saleh
The campaign to expel Israel from FIFA makes its way to the weekly anti-occupation protests in the West Bank. As the world watched the FIFA Congress Friday to see whether the international soccer organization would vote to expel Israel from the association, today’s weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh took the form of a soccer game.…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
May 29, 2015
Playing with fire: IDF to use new weapon on West Bank protests
A new type of sponge-tipped bullet introduced in East Jerusalem last summer has broken arms, fractured faces, destroyed eyesight and killed a teenager. Now a similar projectile is slated for use against Palestinians in the West Bank. Following the introduction last summer of a new type of sponge-tipped bullet into the Israel Police’s arsenal, the…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
May 22, 2015
PHOTOS: Answering tear gas with flowers
Photos and text by Oren Ziv / Activestills.org Every Friday residents of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, along with Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, attempt to march to the village’s spring. The small spring was taken over by Israeli settlers from the nearby settlement of Halamish years ago, and the Israeli army now…
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Activestills
April 14, 2015
WATCH: IDF fires tear gas canisters directly at protesters
Two Palestinian protesters have been killed from the practice in recent years despite it being illegal. In keeping with a recent upsurge in the illegal use of lethal force during weekly Friday demonstrations in Nabi Saleh, video footage emerged last week of an Israeli soldier firing tear gas canisters directly at protesters on March 13,…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
March 24, 2015
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