A core group of Palestinian and Israeli-Jewish activists based in Jaffa which formed around the issue of political prisoners, and has since staged countless demonstrations, vigils, marches and other actions, most of them in the city’s famed clock tower square.
Several hundreds, Palestinians and Israeli Jews, marched today in Jaffa, protesting the surge of violence targeting women. The latest victim, Huda Khil, a mother of four, was murdered by her brother in front of relatives earlier this week in Jaffa. Palestinian women are doubly vulnerable to domestic violence as the police remains indifferent to threats…
Jaffa based activists gathered at the city’s historical clock tower square to protest the interception of the Women’s Boat to Gaza. The Zaytouna-Oliva left Barcelona with female activists from all over the world intending to break the decade long blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel. The Israeli navy stopped the Zaytouna on Wednesday…
Darin Tatur’s father also participated in the demonstration calling for the release of his daughter About 100 people participated in a demonstration at the historic clock tower square in Jaffa, callng for the release of Darin Tatur. Tatur, a Palestinian woman from the Galilee, was arrested last October for a poem she wrote, “rise, my…
Jaffa based activists staged a protest against the escalating violence towards Palestinians that claimed the life of Ali Dawabsheh, a year and a half, from the village of Douma and severely injured his parents and brother. On the dawn of Friday, the family house was set slight in suspected settlers led arson. In the demonstrations…
Dozens of Jaffa based activists staged a vigil in solidarity with the Palestinians in al-Yarmouk refugee camp in the outskirts of Damascus, Syria. The camp has been under nonstop siege by the Assad regime for over two years, and countless people have been suffering hunger and constant shelling by the Syrian army. A few days…
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, Palestinian and Jews alike, staged a protest in the city’s “Gazan Park” to commemorate the Palestinians who were killed in Gaza by the IDF and protest the ongoing massacre. Holding torches, protesters chanted against the occupation of Palestine and the massacre. …
Palestinian residents of Jaffa, led by the Islamic movement, staged a rally in the city’s “Gazan Park” to commemorate the hundreds of Palestinians who were killed in the past two weeks in the Gaza strip by Israel. Demonstrators held a prayer service, and protested the high death toll, in particular of children and women. Elsewhere…
Hundreds of Yafa-based activists filled the city’s historic clock tower square in a show of rage over the killing of Muhammad Abu Khdeir from Shu’fat, and the current wave of racist incitement and violence towards Palestinians. Protesters also briefly blocked the road, bringing traffic to a halt. If you like my work, please also ‘like’…
Jaffa-based activists staged a vigil this evening, showing solidarity with the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoners. Demonstrators stood at clock tower square at the historic city center, calling for the release of prisoners and abolishing administrative detention. If you like my work, please also ‘like’ my facebook page. …
