21 years ago, a settler by the name of Baruch Goldstein entered the Ibrahimi mosque at dawn and shot down 29 Muslim worshippers, injuring 125 more. In the chain of tragic events following the massacre, the Israeli army closed Shuhadaa street, formerly a lively commercial hub, to the movement of Palestinians, including those who actually…
Residents of Nabi Saleh marched today in the pouring rain against the ongoing occupation and land annexation. Earlier this week, Israel revealed plans to expand the nearby settlement of Halamish, built in part on lands confiscated from villagers. Protesters marched towards the main entrance to the village, and were encountered by barraged of tear gas…
Report by Bassem Tamimi – Tamimi Press | Translated by Noa Shaindlinger Scores suffocated from tear gas today during the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh. The march began at Martyrs’ Square and proceeded towards the main entrance to the village, whose iron gates were closed. Palestinian and foreign protesters were led by children carrying signs…
Eight female activists, including single mothers living in public housing, occupied the main offices of Amidar in Tel Aviv today. Amidar, founded as a public housing corporation, is currently in the process of privatisation, as many of its assets are being sold in the market, living families eligible for public housing on the brink of…
Protesting the systematic detention of children and minors by the IDF, residents of Nabi Saleh and solidarity activists marched today, demonstrating against the recent prison sentence given to 14 years old Malak al-Khatib. Malak was accused of stone throwing, and was pressured into signing a plea deal which handed her a two-months prison term and…
Israeli activists gathered outside Hakirya military base in Tel Aviv to protest the incarceration of Malak al-Khatib. Malak, only 14 years of age, was arrested in December and accused of stone throwing. In January, the military court sentenced her to a two months prison term and a hefty 6000NIS fine. She is currently held at…
The weekly protest in Nabi Saleh followed a week of IDF raids in the village and arrests of residents, as well as what seems like the introduction of a new weapon that contains an unknown organge-colored chemical. Villagers and solidarity activists marched with the Palestinian and Egyptian flags to protest against arbitrary arrests of civilians.…
For the fifth day, residents of Rahat, a southern Bedouin town in the Negev / Naqab, took to the streets to protest the police killing of two locals, Sami al-Ja’ar and Sami al-Ziyadneh, the latter killed during the funeral procession of the former. Thousands marched from the home of al-Ja’ari to the family home of…
Jaffa-based activists joined many other Palestinians all over the country expressing their rage over the killings of Sami al-Ja’ar and Sami al-Ziyadneh by the Israeli police. Activists, both Palestinians and Jewish allies, took to the city’s historic clock tower square with banners protesting police targeting of Arab citizens of the state and the continued impunity…
Thousands came to pay their respect to Sami al-Ziyadneh, 43, from Rahat, who was killed by the Israeli police on Sunday night during the funeral of Sami al-Ja’ar, shot and killed by police the day before. Al-Ziyadneh died after Israeli police attacked the funeral procession with barrages of tear gas, stun grenades and rounds of…
