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A Palestinian shepherd near the Israeli settlement of Efrat. March 22, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israel’s ‘strangling’ of Bethlehem tightens as world debates annexation

West Bank settlements are expanding around Bethlehem despite annexation pushback, cutting off Palestinians from their land and from each other.

By Judith Sudilovsky June 18, 2020

Border Police officers suppress a joint Palestinian-Israeli protest against Route 4370, dubbed the 'apartheid road,' just east of Jerusalem in the West Bank, January 23, 2019. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Activists shut down traffic on new West Bank ‘apartheid road’

Activists say the highway, which separates Israeli and Palestinian traffic with an 26-foot concrete wall, will ‘strengthen Israeli rule, including by shutting out entire Palestinian areas.’ Dozens of Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists Wednesday morning blocked a highway many have dubbed the “apartheid road,” Route 4370 in the occupied West Bank, which separates Israeli and Palestinian…

By Oren Ziv January 23, 2019

Route 4370, known as the 'apartheid road,' just east of Jerusalem, West Bank. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israel’s new ‘apartheid road’ is about more than just segregation

Israel claims the new road, which separates Israelis and Palestinians by an eight-meter wall, alleviates traffic for settlers while helping Palestinians travel around the West Bank. Human rights activists say it will help create Israeli-only enclaves free of any Palestinian presence. Israel unveiled a new segregated highway in the occupied West Bank last week, with a giant eight-meter…

By Edo Konrad January 16, 2019

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Cybertech Israel Conference, in Tel Aviv, January 31, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Trump is just what Netanyahu needs to annex the West Bank

His ideological proximity to the new U.S. president will allow Netanyahu to advance plans for the de facto annexation of the West Bank. Now all he needs is Trump's approval.

By Menachem Klein February 10, 2017

Israeli police arrest Palestinian demonstrators outside the re-established Bab al-Shams protest village, Ma'ale Adumim, January 20, 2017. (Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Palestinians build village to protest West Bank annexation bill

Police arrest six Palestinians for building a protest village to demonstrate against a bill that would annex the Ma’ale Adumim settlement bloc to Israel. Photos by Activestills.org, text by Yael Marom Fifty Palestinian activists established a protest village Friday morning adjacent to the West Bank settlement bloc, Ma’ale Adumim, to protest a bill that would annex the area…

By Activestills January 20, 2017

A Palestinian girl walks back from school to her demolished home after it was torn down by Israeli bulldozers in the village of Khirbet al-Halawah in firing zone 918, which includes several villages, south of Hebron, West Bank, February 3, 2016. Israeli forces demolished at least a 23 buildings in the military zone in the southern West Bank, leaving several families homeless. Israel has carried out a long campaign to relocate the residents of the area, which was declared a military zone by the Israeli government in the 1970s.

West Bank demolitions displace 1,500 Palestinians in 2016

Israel ramped up its practice of demolishing Palestinian structures in the West Bank this year, destroying more than twice as many as it did in 2015. The number of Palestinian structures Israel has destroyed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has passed the 1,000 mark for the year, according to data from the UN…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland December 10, 2016

The home of the Palestinian Adgluni family is demolished by Israeli authorities, East Jerusalem, January 27, 2014. Israeli authorities claimed the house was built on lands that do not belong to the family. (Tali Mayer/Activestills.org)

Demolishing Palestinian structures is the norm — not the exception

A sharp increase in demolitions of structures in the West Bank displaces over 120 Palestinians, drawing media attention and a harsh response from the United Nations. Over August 17-18 Israeli authorities demolished around 40 Palestinian structures in the West Bank, displacing over 120 Palestinians. The demolitions were carried out during a record-breaking heat wave that has…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland August 19, 2015

Ongoing construction work in the Pisgat Ze'ev settlement in East Jerusalem, as seen from the Anata neighborhood on August 29, 2012. Under international law, all of the new Jewish neighborhood established by Israel after 1967 are deemed to be illegal and supposedly to be "removed" as a prelude to a peace agreement. In the meantime, residents of Anata complain of having lost a lot of land and access to the hill on which this neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev is built, although they add that several local families have actually moved to the settlement in order to find themselves on the right side of the Separation Wall, and avoid having to go through a checkpoint several times a day. (photo: JC/Activestills.org)

Israel issues E. J’lem settlement tenders as violence spikes

Pisgat Ze’ev is one of Israel’s ‘ring neighborhoods,’ separating Palestinian East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Settlement watchdog says tenders could not have been published without Netanyahu’s approval. The Israeli government published tenders for 77 new housing units in the settlements of Pisgat Ze’ev and Neve Yaakov in occupied East Jerusalem Monday…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland April 27, 2015

Palestinian, Israeli and international activists protest against Israeli plans to build new settlements in the E1 area of the West Bank, Eizariya, West Bank, March 17, 2015. (Ahmad al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Israeli army arrests 7 in action against E1 settlement

While Israel was headed to the polls, Palestinian, international and Israeli activists protested Israeli construction in the E1 area of the West Bank near Jerusalem. Text and photos by Ahmad Al-Bazz / Activestills.org Palestinian, international and Israeli activists protested against Israeli plans to seize and build in the E1 area, which would cut off the…

By Activestills March 18, 2015

Palestinian activists protest in front of the office of Assia architectural company in Ramallah, West Bank, September 21, 2014. Activists discovered major cooperation between Assia company and the Israeli Civil Administration in connection with the 'E1' project east of Jerusalem. Last week, Israel announced that government plans to forcibly relocate 12,500 Palestinian Bedouin east of Jerusalem to a new town in the Jordan Valley were drafted without consulting the tribes. According to activists, Assia has agreed to take on the project. The new town, to be named Ramat Nu’eimeh, will be built in Area C, near Jericho in the Jordan Valley, and is slated to house about 12,500 people from Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley and the Ma'ale Adumim area. (photo: Activestills)

PHOTOS: Palestinians protest Ramallah firm’s role in displacing Bedouin

Palestinians in Ramallah protest the Assia architectural firm’s collaboration with the Israeli Civil Administration in a project to forcibly relocate Bedouin in the West Bank. Israel’s Civil Administration, the military government that rules over Palestinians in the West Bank, is pushing forward with a plan to remove thousands of Palestinian Bedouin from lands in the occupied West Bank,…

By Activestills September 22, 2014

Women, many of whom were affected by the Israeli attack, after a psycho-social group session in a private home in Beit Lahiya. Gaza Strip, February 18, 2013. (Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Women leading the struggles in Israel/Palestine

In honor of International Women’s Day, Activestills brings you the best photos of the activist women who push for justice and a better life for all those between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Photo by: Ahmad al-Bazz, Shiraz Grinbaum, Keren Manor, Tali Mayer, Anne Paq, Ryan Rodrick Beiler, Yotam Ronen, Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Read more: Meet the Israeli women who…

By Activestills March 8, 2014

Palestinian activists protest in Deheishe refugee camp against U.S. President Obama's visit to Bethlehem, West Bank, March 22, 2013. (Photo by: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

From Obama drama to Palm Sunday protests: A week in photos – March 21-27

This week: Protests shadow Obama’s itinerary, a protest village in E1 is built and demolished, animal rights activists are scarred for life, and Palestinians march for water rights, prisoner solidarity, and to protest Israel’s permit regime.

By Activestills March 28, 2013

Israeli forces arrest an activist as the camp is forcibly evicted.

PHOTOS: Israeli forces demolish Palestinian camp built to protest Obama visit

Until its forcible eviction Saturday night, Palestinian activists built and maintained a new protest camp in E1 to protest Israeli occupation and settlement expansion, directing their message to visiting U.S. President Barack Obama. Photos by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler, Anne Paq, Yotam Ronen, and Oren Ziv As U.S. President Barack Obama’s plane was landing at Ben…

By Activestills March 24, 2013