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.

Maher Younis, one of the oldest Palestinian prisoners, arrives in the village of Arara on January 19th after his release following 40 years of imprisonment. Israeli authorities arrested Younis in 1983 on the charge of killing an Israeli soldier. On the eve of his release, Israeli authorities reportedly warned Younis’s family not to raise Palestinian flags or to hold a mass celebration for his return home.

Palestinians carry the body of 41-year-old Samir Aslan during his funeral in the Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem. Israeli forces killed Aslan as he watched soldiers arrest his 17-year-old son, according to Palestinian eyewitnesses. Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.

Israeli anti-Zionist activists hold signs condemning Israeli colonialism at a largely liberal Zionist mass protest against the new far-right government in Tel Aviv on January 7th. Some Israeli activists only oppose Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, while anti-Zionist Israelis oppose the entire Israeli system of rule imposed on Palestinians between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Photo: Activestills.

Israel continues its demolition of Palestinian homes and confiscation of property in the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank on January 3rd. Last year, the Israeli high court approved the government’s plan to displace the residents of the area’s villages. Photo: Basil Al-Adraa/Activestills.

Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hammouri, who was deported by Israel after the government revoked his Jerusalem residency, arrives in Paris on December 18th, 2022. Hammouri, who also holds French citizenship, had been detained in an Israeli prison without charge since March. UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence condemned the Israeli government’s actions, saying that “deporting a protected person from occupied territory is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, constituting a war crime.” Photo: Anne Paq/ Activestills.

Palestinians carry the body of 16-year-old Diaa Al-Rimawi, shot by Israeli forces on December 8th, during his funeral the next day in the West Bank village of Beit Rima, west of Ramallah. Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.

Denise Guidoux (left), the mother of French Palestinian lawyer Salah Hammouri, gives a press conference with Hammouri’s attorney, Leah Tsemel, in Jerusalem on December 2nd. The previous day, Israel's interior minister announced that Hamouri, who has been detained without charge in an Israeli prison since March, will be deported to France. Amnesty International said the forced deportation would constitute a war crime. Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills

The aftermath of the demolition of a school in the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank by Israeli forces, which ordered children to evacuate from their classrooms before the bulldozers set to work. Demolishing Palestinian structures, including schools, is seen by Palestinians as a continuation of Israel’s efforts at ethnic cleansing. According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, more than 50 Palestinian schools in the West Bank are under threat of demolition, with Israel saying they “lack building permits.” Photo: Basil Al-Adraa/Activestills.

Israeli authorities bring a bulldozer into the Beit Hanina neighborhood of Jerusalem to demolish a home belonging to Yousef al Taweel on November 7th, saying that he did not obtain a proper building permit before beginning construction. The vast majority of Palestinian permit requests to build structures are denied by Israel.

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Israeli forces demolish a Palestinian residential building in Al-Baqaa, southern West Bank, as part of the ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign in Masafer Yatta, October 31st. Another house was demolished the same morning in the nearby village of Um Lasafa. Photo: Basil Adra/Activestills.

Masked Israeli settlers attack activists and farmers in the village of Turmus Ayya in the northern West Bank on October 25th, 2022. The settler attacks intend to prevent the farmers from the Faz3a campaign, a Palestinian initiative supporting farmers in reaching their land during the olive harvest, from picking their olive trees. After throwing stones at the olive harvesters, over 30 masked settlers set two Palestinian cars ablaze. Later, despite Israeli forces attacking harvesters with tear gas and stun grenades, Palestinians and activists managed to return to the land and continue to harvest. Photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.

Palestinians and supporters attempt to remove an earth mound newly erected by Israeli forces near Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus, in order to cut off travel on October 20th, 2022. Since October 11th, following the killing of an Israeli soldier by the Nablus-based armed resistance group Lions’ Den, Nablus has been under Israeli closure, blocking most of the entrances to the city. The closure represents an act of collective punishment, a frequent tool used by Israeli forces to maintain control in the West Bank. No such policy is used against Israeli settlers. Photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.

Israeli police and army forces enter Shuafat refugee camp, armed with crowd dispersal weapons, as residents protest the total closure of the camp on October 12th, 2022.

In a display of support for settler ownership claims on Palestinian land in occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces attacked Palestinians picking olives in the Wadi Rababa area, in the neighborhood of Silwan. Israel's policy in Jerusalem is to "Judaize" the city by ethnically cleansing Palestinians and allocating their land to Israeli settlers.

A Palestinian man smokes a cigarette as Palestinians confront Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Hebron following the killing of four Palestinians in Jenin during an early morning raid by the Israeli military on September 28th. Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.

On September 19th, 2022, an Israeli judge at Ofer military court extended the detention of Hafez Hureini, who was attacked by five armed settlers on his land in At-Tuwani one week ago. Since the attack, he has been held in military prison with two broken arms. The judge reduced his charge from attempted murder to aggravated assault, and extended his detention for three more days. Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.

On September 12th, Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh was brought to a hearing in a Jerusalem court following her arrest by Israeli forces. “I want to see my kids,” she said. Ghosheh was arrested in her home in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem last week in front of her two small children. She was detained because of 11 recent social media posts that are said to show support for the Palestinian armed struggle against the occupation. Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.

On September 4th, four young Israelis announced their refusal to enroll in mandatory military service in the Israeli army because of its policies toward Palestinians. “I decided to refuse because the main goal of the army is the ethnic cleansing of non-Jews," said one of the four objectors, who will be sentenced to imprisonment in military jail.

Representatives of Palestinian civil society groups and supporters gathered in front of Al Haq’s office to protest against Israel's military raids targeting Palestinian human rights groups on August 18th. During the raids, computers and other equipment were taken by Israeli military forces and metal doors were sealed with notices on them that the organizations are outlawed and are closed. Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.

Um Ahmed Shamalakh bathes her children in the bathtub that remained after her house was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike during the recent offensive on Gaza. Photo by Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.

Palestinians viewed the site of an Israeli airstrike that killed three people (as well as a horse) in the middle of Gaza City on August 7th, 2022. Photo by Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.

On July 23rd, protesters called for the immediate release of Khalil Awawdeh and Raed Rayyan in front of the Israeli Ramleh Prison, where the two hunger striking Palestinian administrative detainees are held without charge or trial despite their deteriorating and life threatening conditions after a total period of more than a hundred days without food each. Photo by Haidi Motola/Activestills.

On July 15th, Palestinians, joined by Israelis and internationals, protested in A-Tur, East Jerusalem, calling for justice for Shireen Abu Akleh during US President Biden’s visit to Augusta Victoria Hospital. Abu Akleh was killed by live fire while covering a raid by Israeli forces in Jenin. Multiple forensic analyses determined the bullet that killed Abu Akleh was fired by Israeli forces, yet Israel refuses to hold anyone responsible.

Palestinians enjoyed the beach in Jaffa during the July Eid al-Adha holiday. Thousands of Palestinians entered Jaffa and other cities in Israel, with special permits issued by the Israeli army for the holiday.