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.

Israeli authorities forcibly evict the Palestinian Sub Laban family from their home in the Old City of Jerusalem on July 11th. After the expulsion, Israeli settlers moved into the property.

Hundreds of families from the Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank escape a prolonged Israeli raid intended to crack down on Palestinian armed resistance. At least eight Palestinians were killed and dozens were injured by live ammunition and drone airstrikes, July 3rd, 2023.

Israeli settlers damage a Palestinian business in the West Bank village of Luban ash-Sharqiya on June 19th. The settler attack occurred near the spot where Palestinian gunmen shot and killed four settlers hours earlier.

Palestinians carry an injured man following an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on June 19th. Israeli soldiers killed seven Palestinians and injured over 90, while Israeli helicopters launched missiles in Jenin for the first time in over a decade.

On June 11th, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli settlers attacked anti-eviction protesters in front of the home of Nura Sub-Laban, a Palestinian woman whose family is facing imminent expulsion by Israeli authorities. The government plans to hand the home over to Israeli settlers. At the protest, Israeli police confiscated Palestinian flags and arrested three activists.

On June 6th, Palestinians participate in the funeral of two-year-old Muhammad Tamimi in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. The Palestinian toddler was near the entrance to his home when Israeli forces shot him in the head. Tamimi’s father, who was with the child, was also injured in the shooting. Tamimi is one of 27 Palestinian children that Israeli forces have killed so far in 2023.

A destroyed house in Gaza City on May 27th, which Palestinians recently began repairing. The building was one of several that was damaged when Israeli forces bombed the home of the neighboring Tafeesh family earlier this month, killing 400 chickens the family was raising.

Israeli and international activists block a road near the Gilo settlement in the West Bank to stop Israeli settlers from arriving in Jerusalem to attend the annual “Flag March” on May 18th. The march, which celebrates the occupation and colonization of Jerusalem, regularly involves settler violence against the city’s Palestinian residents. Israeli police arrested ten of the activists seeking to prevent the march and forcibly removed the group blocking the road.

Members of the Nabhan family examine the ruins of their home in the village of Jabalia in northern Gaza. Israeli forces bombed the building on May 14th as part of a five-day military offensive which left at least 33 Palestinians dead. Four members of the family have special needs that complicated their evacuation of their home when the bombing began.

Palestinians from the village of Sandala in the north of Israel gather for the funeral of 19-year-old Deyar Omari on May 7th. Following a traffic dispute, Omari, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was shot and killed at close range by a Jewish resident of the neighboring village of Gan Ner, south of Afula.

Palestinians take part in the annual March of Return on April 26th, on the site of what was the village of Al-Lajjun before Israeli forces forced residents to flee in 1948. The march marks 75 years since the creation of the State of Israel, whose forces destroyed at least 530 Palestinian villages and neighborhoods. Israel bans the return of Palestinian refugees while allowing Jews from all over the world to move to the country and gain full citizenship.

Israeli activists protest in Tel Aviv as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at a commemoration ceremony for Zionist fighters killed during the occupation of Jaffa in 1948. The activists demonstrated at the site of what was once Manshiya, Jaffa, a Palestinian neighborhood whose residents were ethnically cleansed by a Zionist militia in 1948.

Israeli youth burn their military draft orders in Tel Aviv on April 16th, announcing their refusal to join the Israeli army in protest of the occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.

Over 1,500 Israeli Jews gathered in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound—known to Jews as the Temple Mount—during Passover on April 9th, accompanied by armed Israeli officers. Under the agreement between Israel and Jordan that governs the site, known as the “status quo,” non-Muslims are permitted to enter, but not to pray there.

Israeli forces suppress a Palestinian protest against the recent increase in settler attacks in the West Bank town of Huwara on April 1st. The protest was also held to observe Land Day, which commemorates the 1976 killing of six Palestinians in the Galilee while protesting land confiscation by Israeli authorities.

Thousands of West Bank Palestinians cross an Israeli military checkpoint on their way to Jerusalem for the first Friday mass prayer of Ramadan last week. Israeli forces announced that, for West Bank Palestinians without permits, access to Jerusalem during Ramadan Fridays would be limited to women of any age and men over 45.

Palestinian photojournalist and Activestills contributor Wahaj Bani Moufleh stands on the street on March 17th, the day after his release from Palestinian Authority (PA) detention. Bani Moufleh was arrested while documenting a March 8th funeral in Jenin for Abdulfattah Khrousheh, who was suspected of killing two Israeli settlers in February. PA forces fired tear gas and forcibly dispersed mourners during the funeral procession. “This experience only increased my strength and determination to continue my journalistic work with professionalism and love,” Bani Moufleh said.

Palestinian farmers line up at an Israeli military gate in the West Bank village of Habla on March 12th to reach their land behind the separation barrier.

Israeli forces maintain a forced closure of Palestinian shops in the West Bank town of Huwara, near the city of Nablus, on March 2nd. The Israeli army shuttered shops after a violent settler rampage in the town on February 26th.

Palestinians examine damage to their houses and vehicles on February 27th in Huwara, a village near Nablus, which was attacked by Israeli settlers the night before in a rampage that left one Palestinian dead and hundreds injured.

Palestinians hold Friday prayers next to an apartment building under threat of demolition by Israeli authorities in the neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem on February 17th. One hundred Palestinians who live in the building face displacement if Israel goes ahead with its demolition plan, which was delayed following an international pressure campaign.

Palestinians mourn 29-year-old Youssef Darabeih, a young man from Gaza who died in Turkey during last week’s earthquakes. In recent years, many young Gazans have moved to Turkey fleeing the draconian air, land, and sea blockade imposed by the Israeli army.

Palestinians carry their belongings after Israeli forces demolished two Palestinian houses in the West Bank village of Duma, near the city of Nablus, on February 2nd. In the first five weeks of this year, Israeli forces have destroyed 132 Palestinian structures in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to the United Nations.

Israeli settlers block Palestinian cars at the entrance to the Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat on January 28th to protest recent shooting attacks in Jerusalem that killed seven and injured at least five. Israeli police protected the settlers while taking action against Palestinians. At least one Palestinian was arrested. Settlers also blocked roads and harassed Palestinians at major junctions in the West Bank.