Local activists in Jaffa took to the street to protest the unprecedented police violence during the demonstrations against the Prawer plan on the third Day of Rage. As news about police brutality and multiple arrests in Hura and Haifa spread, activists began mobilizing for a spontaneous show of force in the city of Jaffa. The…
Over 1000 people, locals and activists from other parts of the country, gathered near the Bedouin town of Hura, in the Naqab / Negev to protest the Prawer plan. The demonstration in Hura, planned as the main event of the third “Day of Rage,” was spirited but peaceful, until, as many eye witnesses say, undercover…
Activists from Yafa, both Jews and Palestinians, took to the street Thursday evening to protest against the Prawer plan which will displace at least 30,000 Bedouins in the Naqab / Negev and mobilize for the upcoming third day of rage planned for 30.11. Protesters held banners against the mass displacement and ethnic cleansing and calling…
Over a hundred people, Palestinians and Israeli-Jews, gathered in Jaffa’s historic clock tower square in order to protest the Prawer plan, which is projected to displace some 40,000 Bedouins from ‘unrecognised villages’ in the country’s southern region of the Negev (Naqab in Arabic). Protesters held banners against this massive wave of ethnic cleansing, repeated demolitions…
In anticipation of the nationwide “day of rage” on 30.11.2013, Yaffa-based activists, both Palestinians and Jewish, protested at the historical clock tower square against the Prawer plan which threatens to displace at least 30,000 Bedouins from their home in “unrecognized villages” in the Naqab / Negev, in southern Palestine. Even before the plan has been…
Palestinian and Jewish activists took over Jaffa’s landmark clock tower square to protest the Prawer plan which would displace 30,000 Bedouins in the Naqab / Negev southern region of the country. Protesters chanted “Prawer will not pass” and blocked the road for about an hour and a half. If you like my work, please also…
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Protesters gathered in the Ramallah-district town of Bitunia, near the Ofer military prison, to mark the 46th anniversary of the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza strip and the Golan heights. Even before protesters arrived, the IOF sprayed the area with foul-smelling skunk water and took positions inside a residential area. As…
15 May marked the 65th anniversary to the creation of the Zionist state, which was founded through the etnhic cleansing of Palestine and the expulsion of about 750,000 of its inhabitants, known in Arabic as al-Nakba (the catastrophe). Commemorated each year by Palestinian communities around the world, as well as IDPs in side Palestie, refugees…
15 May marked the 65th anniversary to the creation of the Zionist state, which was founded through the etnhic cleansing of Palestine and the expulsion of about 750,000 of its inhabitants, known in Arabic as al-Nakba (the catastrophe). Commemorated each year by Palestinian communities around the world, as well as IDPs in side Palestie, refugees…
