As Israelis lined up today at the election polls, celebrating ‘the only democracy in the Middle East,’ disenfranchised Palestinians faced the Israeli army in the rebuilt ‘Jerusalem Gate’ protest encampment near Abu Dis. The protest encampment has been destroyed numerous times before and was erected to reclaim territory earmarked for a new Jewish only settlement.…
The Israeli army stepped up its violent suppression of the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh this week. As villagers and solidarity activists marched down the main road leading to the entrance to the village, soldiers targeted them with tear gas canisters, live ammunition and finally, physical violence. One young man sustained an injury from a…
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…
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…
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…
Jaffa-based activists welcome Samer al-‘Issawi, the former political prisoner and hunger striker, recently released from Israeli prison. ‘Issawi was received at the city’s historic clock tower square, where activists staged daily vigils calling for his release over an extended period of time. Update: during the summertime Israeli assault on Gaza, Samer Issawi was rearrested and…
The popular struggle coordination committee organized a series of actions stressing the fundamental right of Palestinians to worship in al-Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem. A group of Palestinian activists climbed the apartheid wall in the vicinity of Qalandiyah checkpoint, and using makeshift bridges traversed to the other side as a symbolic gesture, marking their protest…
Activists in Tel Aviv attempted to stage a demonstration against the ongoing massacre in the Gaza strip at the city centre. Israeli police attempted to disperse them using brute force, including horse mounted policemen, claiming it was an ‘illegal gathering.’ When the protesters insisted on their democratic right to assemble, police began to arrest several…
15 Israeli activists protested against the massacre in Gaza outside Hazor Air Force Base. The Base is where planes depart to bomb Gaza. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Gaza so far, the majority of whom civilians, including more than 200 children. The activists said: “Military violence, and the killing of Palestinian civilians,…
English subtitles can be found on the CC bottom on the video’s toolbar. 26/7/14 Activists of Jews Against Genocide (JAG) gathered in front of the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem for a memorial service for the increasing number of children killed during Israel ‘s current attack on the besieged people of Gaza. For more images…
