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…
English and Arabic subtitles can be found on the CC bottom on the video’s toolbar. “The military claimed, according to what I read, that the soldier didn’t see what he was firing on. His claim is implausible, because there was a rock in the direction of the shooting, nothing else, So there was no reason…
Two years have passed since the killing of Mustafa Tamimi who was shot to death by an IDF soldier from within an armoured jeep. The village of Nabi Saleh marked the second anniversary of his killing this Friday, with a march that began at his graveside. Speakers also mentioned the late great Nelson Mandela and…
The military prosecutor decided to close the case of the killing of Mustafa Tamimi from Nabi Saleh, claiming that the shooting “was legal and according to regulations,” accepting the shooter’s claim that he “did not see Tamimi.” Yet, if the shooter did not see him, even though Mustafa was standing right in front of him,…
The Canister that Killed Mustafa Hit me as well I am staring. For a moment, the whole world disappears. I disappear, disconnected, aloof, absent minded and feeling. This moment may last long minutes, even hours. I keep craving sleep, sleep all the time. Sleep and never wake up. Every time I wake up I ask…
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…
