schwarczenberg.com is a news blog that documents Israeli oppression in various struggles such us: the Palestinian struggle, particularly in Nabi Saleh, Billin, Qaddum, Bitunya and Hebron, as well as the struggle for public housing, the asylum seekers’ struggle and the struggle of the Bedouin community against the Prawer Plan etc. Some of the photos & stories were published on newspapers such as: Times, NYTimes, Guardian, BBC and others.
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…
About 15,000 protesters congregated in the town of ‘Ar’ara to protest the recent wave of home demolitions by the state. In previous weeks, the state demolished 11 homes in the town of Qalanswa as well as many more in the southern town of Umm al-Hiran, slated to be completely demolished for a new Jewish-only settlement…
About 100 people congregated in the historical Clock Tower Square in Jaffa, to protest the home demolitions and forced evictions of Palestinians by the state. The protest was organized by local activists, in response to the pre-dawn raid of Umm al-Hiran, a Palestinian-Bedouin community in the Naqab/Negev, where police officers shot and killed 50 year…
Several hundreds, Palestinians and Israeli Jews, marched today in Jaffa, protesting the surge of violence targeting women. The latest victim, Huda Khil, a mother of four, was murdered by her brother in front of relatives earlier this week in Jaffa. Palestinian women are doubly vulnerable to domestic violence as the police remains indifferent to threats…
Jaffa based activists gathered at the city’s historical clock tower square to protest the interception of the Women’s Boat to Gaza. The Zaytouna-Oliva left Barcelona with female activists from all over the world intending to break the decade long blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel. The Israeli navy stopped the Zaytouna on Wednesday…
This month, a selection of my work is being showcased in two exhibitions: “Here and Now” in Haifa curates several of the more prominent photojournalistic works from the past two years in Palestine/Israel, including my award winning image from “Local Testimony” 2014. On May 19, a few of my images will be showcased in “Intervals…
