Marking international women’s day, Israeli activists from the Coalition of Women for Peace staged a show of solidarity with women (and men) in besieged Gaza, using light sticks to form a call to Free Gaza in front of the Erez checkpoint and overlooking Beit Hanoun. …
Honoring Mu’taz Washaha from Bir Zeit, an activist murdered by the IOF a week prior, Palestinians and solidarity activists marched from Martyrs’ Square at the centre of Nabi Saleh towards the main road. Marking also international women’s day, prominent female protesters also confronted the soldiers who attempted to brutally disperse the march. One woman was…
Hundreds in Hebron marked today the 20th anniversary to the Baruch Goldstein massacre in the Ibrahimi mosque. At dawn of 25 February, 1994, Baruch Goldstein, a settler and a physician, opened fire on hundreds of Muslim worshippers at the mosque, killing 29 of them. Subsequently, the IDF closed Shuhada street, previously a lively commercial centre…
On Valentine’s day, Palestinians and solidarity activists, Israeli and international, marched from Nabi Saleh’s main square. Under the banner “Palestine my love” protesters marched towards the village’s expropriated spring and surrounding fields. The IDF responded with barrages of tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets. No major injuries reported. If you like my work, please…
The morning after the violent assualt and subsequent eviction of Ein Hijleh, Palestinian and international activists staged a protest against the occupation and apartheid wall. The IDF responded with barrages of tear gas. However, when a tear gas canister detonated inside a military jeep, soldiers suffocated and fell ill, eventually leaving the area. …
Jaffa-based activists welcome Samer al-‘Issawi, the former political prisoner and hunger striker, recently released from Israeli prison. ‘Issawi was received at the city’s historic clock tower square, where activists staged daily vigils calling for his release over an extended period of time. He was then taken on a walking tour of the city, as local…
On Friday, 31.1.2014 I participated in a conference organized by Amnesty International Israel titled “The Use of Excessive Force in Suppression of Civil Protest.” I would like to express my gratitude to Halleli Pinson and Noa Shaindlinger for their assistance and to Ofek Brisker for documenting this on video.
“We are all with Yarmouk,” chanted participants in the weekly Friday demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh. Palestinians accompanied by Israeli and international solidarity activists marched today from Martyrs Square at the centre of the village towards Nabi Saleh’s expropriated lands, as the IDF attempted to dispersed them using tear gas canisters, rubber coated…
