A group of activists led by the Coalition of Women for Peace staged a vigil in front of a military base in Tel Aviv in solidarity with Ahed, Nariman and Nour Tamimi. All three woman were jailed by the Israeli army following a viral video depicting Ahed (16), slapping an Israeli soldier who invaded her…
Israeli human rights activists gathered outside the home of Yitzhak Aharonovitch, former Israeli police deputy police commissioner and minister of public security, currently, claim protesters, heads IMI Systems Ltd, one of the biggest Israeli weapons and military technology manufacturer, currently exporting arms to Burma / Mynmar, where the military engages with systematic ethnic cleansing of…
Activists gathered in the historic clock tower square in Jaffa to stage a solidarity vigil with the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoners. About 1500 political prisoners have been on strike since 17 April (observed in Palestine as Prisoners Day) in protest over the conditions of their incarceration. Among other things, they demand access to education…
Around 100 people gathered in the Ramallah-district village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank after Friday’s midday prayers. They were there to stage solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners, hunger striking in Israel’s jails. On 17 April, observed as Prisoner’s Day, about 1500 political prisoners of different factions launched a hunger strike to protest…
Scores staged a vigil at Jaffa’s historic clock tower square in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, Since 17 April (observed by Palestinians as Prioner’s Day), at least 1500 political prisoners have been on hunger strike, protesting the conditions of their incarceration and demanding their amelioration. Israel responses with brutal…
In solidarity with the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoners, residents of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh marched and confronted the Israeli army. The strike was launched on Prisoner’s Day, 17 April, and included thousands of political prisoners of different factions. The prisoners demand immediate improvement to the conditions of their incarceration, such as…
Scores of Palestinian and Israeli activists demonstrated in front of the Israeli Pathological Institute in Jaffa, demanding the release of the body of Basil al-Araj to his family. Al-Araj, a 31 year old renowned activist from the village of Wallajeh (near Bethlehem), had been a longtime organizer of direct actions against the Israeli occupation, such…
Photographed & Edit by Bilal Tamimi On Friday 3 March, 2017, I was documenting a direct action in the village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, at a local spring which had been confiscated by settlers. I was assaulted by a settler and pushed off a mound 1.5m onto the ground. I sustained bruises…
Photographed & Edit by Bilal Tamimi Residents of Nabi Saleh marched on Friday to reclaim ‘Ayn al-Qaws, a spring which was confiscated by the settlers a few years ago. Since the expropriation, the military rarely allowed Palestinians to enter the spring and its environs, especially on Fridays. Villagers marched to the spring, accompanied by solidarity…
Hundreds marched today for the annual “Open Shuhadaa Street” protest in the occupied city of Hebron. Shuhadaa street in the old city used to be a lively market place, but was abruptly shut down by the Israeli military following the Goldstein Massacre of 1994. Barukh Goldstein, a settler and military doctor, fired at Muslim worshipers…
