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Strangled by Israel for decades, Gaza’s future must begin with free movement
Israel persistently shirks responsibility for Gaza despite subjecting it to closures, permits, and assaults. Returning to those policies is not an option.
By
Noa Galili
March 10, 2024
A Palestinian student briefly deleted her social media. Israel revoked her permit
Police arrested a West Bank medical student at an Israeli hospital and accused her of 'blocking' friends online. Weeks later, she was barred from returning.
By
Oren Ziv
December 19, 2023
The permit regime is Oslo’s enduring legacy. It must be abolished
The separation logic enshrined by the Oslo Accords birthed a cruel system of Israeli control, whose security justifications collapsed into openly racist ones.
By
Yael Berda
September 21, 2023
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When an Arab kid is arrested in the heart of Tel Aviv
The ugly Israeli is not the one who is filmed yelling at stewardesses or hotel receptionists. It is the one who lives in denial of an entire system that oppresses another people. The one who eats his ice cream as a Palestinian child is arrested right in front of him. By Mei-Tal Nadler A few…
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March 29, 2015
Who really profits from Israel’s permit regime?
The number of work permits the Israeli army gives to Palestinian workers nearly tripled, a new Bank of Israel report reveals. Did all those people suddenly become less dangerous, or do the permits serve interests other than security? The normative framework for viewing Israel’s permit regime is that it stems purely from the state’s security…
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Haggai Matar
March 6, 2015
Why the IDF cannot be trusted to investigate itself
The occupation is violence: costly to the occupied, cheap for the occupiers. Only a credible, independent and effective inquiry into IDF actions can begin to make that violence costly to its perpetrators. By Hagai El-Ad (translated by Keren T Rubinstein) Recently it was announced that the IDF had already begun looking into 99 incidents that took…
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October 11, 2014
How do you stop Palestinians unionizing? Cancel their entry permits
An Israeli employer of Palestinians inside a West Bank settlement, with the help of Israeli authorities, is exploiting the military permit regime in order stop his workers from unionizing, a High Court petition alleges. In order to sabotage the unionization of Palestinian workers, the owner of an Israeli car garage filed a false police complaint…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
September 15, 2014
‘Dad’s in prison’: A young Palestinian woman speaks
I teach writing at a Palestinian university in the West Bank. Several of my students have been gracious enough to share their experiences with +972, albeit anonymously. This is the first of four short essays. It was a sunny day. I woke up at six o’clock to get ready for my new life because it…
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Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
March 31, 2014
+972’s Editor’s Picks of 2013
As 2013 comes to a close, +972 Magazine’s editors and bloggers took time to look back at the year that was, and share the articles that most resonated with them – in no particular order. ‘They’re all named Mohammad nowadays’ In one of the most heartfelt posts of the year, Mya Guarnieri describes the difficulties of…
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December 28, 2013
PHOTOS: Israel ‘punishes’ Ni’ilin activist, denies access to olive trees behind the wall
For being one of the leaders of Nil’in’s popular struggle against the wall, Muhammad Amira has been marked by military authorities and is consistently denied a permit to work his own lands – for unexplained ‘security reasons.’ Text by Haggai Matar Photos by Keren Manor/Activestills.org (This article has been updated) Meet Muhammad Amira from the…
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Activestills
October 23, 2013
A journey into the dark heart of Israel’s permit regime
Trapped between the separation barrier and the Green Line, Palestinians living in the ‘Seam Zone’ are forced to reckon with a Kafkaesque permit regime that appears designed to do one thing and one thing only: make them give up and leave. By Idan Landau, translated by Jordan Michaeli Israeli NGO Hamoked: Center for the…
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+972 Magazine
October 7, 2013
From the checkpoint to the sea: A month of Ramadan photos
During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Israel grants hundreds of thousands of entry permits to West Bank Palestinians in order to pray in Jerusalem. It is estimated that as many as 1 million Palestinians entered Israel during Ramadan this year, many taking the opportunity to visit the beach and other sites they are normally…
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Activestills
August 9, 2013
Staring into the eyes of the occupation
After taking part in a protest action challenging the checkpoint and permit regime in Bethlehem, one activist finds herself in a home where the reality of the occupation comes to life in a way that ‘breaks your heart while punching you in the stomach as you stare at it.’ By Leehee Rothschild We went to…
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June 23, 2013
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