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…
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…
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…
