Dahmash

A right-wing Israeli seen standing in front of Israeli Border Police officers during attacks by security forces, rightists, and settlers on Palestinians in the city of Lyd, central Israel, May 13, 2021. (Oren Ziv)

How Israeli police are colluding with settlers against Palestinian citizens

West Bank settlers swarmed the city of Lyd on Wednesday, where they threw stones and attacked Palestinian residents. Israeli forces who were supposed to enforce a curfew stood idly by.

By Oren Ziv May 13, 2021

A Palestinian woman sorts through the rubble of her demolished home in the West Bank village of Surif, April 4, 2016. The Israeli army demolished the home because it says it was unauthorized. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

West Bank home demolitions hit 10-year high

Israeli military authorities have demolished at least 180 Palestinian homes since the start of 2016 alone, and over 1,100 in the past decade, according to B’Tselem and the UN. Israeli authorities have demolished more Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank thus far in 2016 than in any other calendar year in the last decade, according to…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland July 27, 2016

Residents walk through the remains of their homes in the unrecognized village Dahmash, Israel, April 15, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

High Court to state: Why won’t you recognize Arab village?

Israeli authorities have for years refused to make a decision about Dahmash, leaving its residents without the most basic services and in constant fear of demolitions. Israel’s High Court of Justice this week granted the state 90 days to explain its decades-long refusal to even decide whether to recognize the Palestinian village of Dahmash, located in central Israel. Being…

By Rami Younis July 22, 2016

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The unrecognized village of Atir (Activestills.org)

The tragic resilience of Israel’s unrecognized Arab villages

Palestinian citizens of Israel led the first ‘Land Day’ protests on March 30th, 1976. 40 years later, they’re facing even worse threats than before. +972 visits three unrecognized villages across Israel where Israeli courts have approved evictions in order to build luxury apartments, roads, and new Jewish towns on the ruins of their homes.

By Amjad Iraqi March 30, 2016

Amal Murkus.

The Palestinian-Israeli singer challenging everyone’s misconceptions

Call her a traitor, call her a normalizer — Palestinian-Israeli singer Amal Murkus has heard it all. Now as she gets ready to release her brilliant new album, the avowed Marxist and feminist is speaking out against the racism of the Israeli mainstream as well as Palestinian attempts to silence her. When I came home…

By Orly Noy December 25, 2015

Sanda Abulkian sits outside her demolished house in the unrecognized village of Atir on July 12, 2013. The Abulkian house has demolished four times already, three of them during 2013. (Photo: Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

A living legacy of displacement

The impulses that drove the dispossession of the 1948 war are still acted on today, on both sides of the borders it forged. “Did you know I’m afraid of sleeping? … I’m scared of sleeping and waking to find myself in a strange land whose language I can’t speak. I’m scared I won’t wake up.” —Elias…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland June 19, 2015

A bulldozer demolishes an apartment building in the unrecognized village Dahmash, April 15, 2015. (photo: Rami Younis)

WATCH: Israel demolishes homes in unrecognized Palestinian village

Bulldozers knocked down three buildings in the village Dahmash, just 20 minutes from Tel Aviv, contrary to a High Court ruling. By Rami Younis and Haggai Matar Israeli bulldozers demolished three structures in the unrecognized Palestinian village Dahmash, near Lyd (Lod in Hebrew) on Wednesday morning. The demolition took place despite both a High Court…

By Rami Younis April 15, 2015

Rapper Tamer Nafar performs during a cultural event in the unrecognized village of Dahmash on March 14, 2015. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Solidarity festival for unrecognized village in central Israel

Hundreds of people from across the country, including artists and politicians, converge in Dahmash for a show of solidarity with the unrecognized village whose fate will likely be determined by the High Court. It took us over an hour to find the cultural event in the unrecognized village Dahmash on Saturday. Aside from a dirt…

By Orly Noy March 16, 2015