Activestills Photo Archive

As part of our weekly Tuesday News Bulletin, Jewish Currents is publishing a photograph taken by members of Activestills every week, archiving ongoing dispossession and resistance from the river to the sea. You can find more information on this collaboration here.

Palestinian Muslim worshipers gather for Friday prayers during Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on March 25th despite strict Israeli restrictions on who could enter the compound.

Israeli authorities work on replacing a fence in the northern West Bank with a concrete separation wall on February 26th, a move that will further entrench Israeli military control of the region.

Dozens of Israeli soldiers and settlers from a settlement outpost in the southern West Bank prevent Palestinians from cultivating their private land and brutally attack two Palestinians, who were later arrested by the Israeli police.

Thousands of Palestinians gather at the funeral of Ahed Welad Muhammad and Muhammad Darwish in the southern West Bank town of Dura on January 16th. Israeli forces killed the two men after Palestinians in the town confronted invading soldiers.

A Palestinian girl looks at her home in the West Bank city of Nablus after Israeli forces stormed it and ransacked her family’s belongings.

Palestinians inspect the remains of a destroyed car and the bodies of journalists Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya, both of whom were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on January 7th.

The bodies of members of the Harb family at Rafah’s Al-Najjar hospital following an Israeli airstrike on their home on December 12th.

Palestinians rush to rescue injured people in the immediate aftermath of a deadly Israeli airstrike on the Salah family home in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

Palestinians flee as Israeli forces invade the West Bank town of Beita, near Nablus, on December 2nd, in an attack that killed one person and injured six in addition to destroying and confiscating the personal belongings of several families. A child and an infant were taken to the hospital after Israeli forces shot tear gas into their home.

Palestinians gather in front of Israel’s Ofer military prison at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah to welcome prisoners who were released by Israeli forces on November 24th as part of a prisoner and hostage exchange deal between Israel and Hamas.

Nasser Hospital, in the Gazan city of Khan Younis, receives wounded and dead Palestinians after Israeli warplanes bomb residential neighborhoods.

Over 500 Palestinian workers from Gaza gather inside in the Ramallah Municipality Recreation Complex in the occupied West Bank. The workers have lived in the complex since Hamas attacked Israel and Israel began bombing Gaza on October 7th. The Gazans were in Israel for work, but on October 11th, Israeli authorities revoked their work permits, stripping them of their legal status and forcing them to seek refuge in the West Bank.

Palestinians recover the dead and rescue the wounded members of the Shaqura family, who were buried under the rubble of their home in the city of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, following an Israeli air strike.

Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak attends a hearing in the trial against him on September 28th. Pollak was arrested in January on charges of stone-throwing during a demonstration against a new Israeli settlement. After his arrest, the activist asked that his case be moved from a civilian court to a military court so that he would face the same treatment as Palestinians. However, the court denied Pollak’s request, leading him to reject the legitimacy of the court and refuse to cooperate with the proceedings.

Israeli authorities seal off Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem, barring their residents from moving freely in the city on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

Israeli forces invade the West Bank village of Beita on September 15th. Soldiers installed an iron gate near the town’s main market for fruits and vegetables, obstructing merchants’ business as well as residents’ daily life. The Israeli raid came three days after a suspected Palestinian gunman shot and injured two Israelis near the Palestinian village of Huwara.

Israeli forces attack protesters in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where several Palestinian families face the threat of eviction because of Israeli settler takeover. At the protest, Israeli authorities snatched away Palestinian flags and arrested two demonstrators.

Israeli police fire live ammunition at Eritrean migrants during clashes between supporters and opponents of the Eritrean dictatorship. The clashes took place outside a pro-dictatorship event held at the Eritrean embassy in Tel Aviv on September 2nd.

Palestinians confront Israeli soldiers during an army raid in the West Bank town of Beita on August 22nd. Israeli forces shot and wounded at least eight Palestinians with live ammunition.

Palestinians leave behind a car when abandoning their homes in the West Bank village of Al Qabun. The residents fled last week, citing daily Israeli settler violence and intimidation as their reasons for leaving.

Activists in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah face down police as they protest Israeli settlements and the dispossession of Palestinians from their homes on August 4th. Israeli police used violence against the demonstrators and prevented them from moving through the neighborhood.

Mourners take a last look at the body of 14-year-old Fares Abu Samra at his funeral in the West Bank city of Qalqilya on July 27th. Abu Samra, who was shot by soldiers during an army raid, was the 37th child killed by Israeli forces this year.

Israeli settlers unload the belongings of the Sub Laban family from their house in the Old City of Jerusalem on July 23rd, several days after expelling the family from the property.

Israeli forces attack Palestinian protesters demonstrating against a new settler outpost in the West Bank village of Umm Safa on July 14th. Within days of establishing the outpost—a settlement built without explicit government authorization—last month, settlers began attacking Palestinians in the village, setting cars on fire and shooting at residents.