On Friday afternoon, as Gazans gathered by the fence surrounding the strip to call for an end to decade-long siege and for a return to their colonized lands, a small group of anti-zionist Israeli and international activists approached the other side of the fence. The group was flying the Palestinian flag and holding a large…
About 20 protesters gathered on Wednesday evening in Jaffa’s historic Clock Tower Square to stand in solidarity with the people in besieged Gaza. They staged this vigil just two days after the Israeli military gunned down unarmed protesters in Gaza, who were participating in the Great Return March, commemorating 70 years to the Nakba, or…
About 50 protesters gathered on Tuesday evening in Jaffa’s historic Clock Tower Square to stand in solidarity with the people in besieged Gaza. They staged this vigil a day after the Israeli military gunned down unarmed protesters in Gaza, who were participating in the Great Return March, commemorating 70 years to the Nakba, or the…
About 50 Palestinian and Israeli-Jewish allies staged a vigil on Friday evening in Jaffa’s historic clock tower square. Demonstrated protested the ongoing killing of Palestinian demonstrators in the Friday Great Return March that have been ongoing for a month. The Great Return March is a grassroots-organized weekly demonstration against the decade-long siege of the Gaza…
Around 100 people gathered in the Ramallah-district village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank after Friday’s midday prayers. They were there to stage solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners, hunger striking in Israel’s jails. On 17 April, observed as Prisoner’s Day, about 1500 political prisoners of different factions launched a hunger strike to protest…
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…
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…
Scores of Jaffa-based activists demonstrated in the city’s historical Clock Tower Square calling for the release of Walid Daqqa, a Palestinian political prisoner serving a life sentence in Israeli prison. Daqqa was convicted of participating in resistance operation that targeted an Israeli soldier, and has been jailed since 1986. Recently, Palestinian MK Bassel Ghattas was…
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…
