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  • West Bank. Nabi Saleh. 2012. Mohammed Tamimi (also known as Abu Yazzem) in the door of his home. Residents of Nabi Saleh have been protesting the Israeli Occupation every Friday after midday prayers since 2009. The protests started after Israelis from the nearby settlement of Halimish took over a small spring that had been on Palestinian land. After widening and adding a bench to the spring, the settlers refused to allow the Palestinians to continue using it. The weekly protests quickly devolve into rock throwing by the Palestinians and tear gas, rubber bullets, and 'skunk' (a spray mixed with water that has a horrific stench that can linger for weeks) in response by the Israelis.
  • 2014. Jerusalem. Israel. Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem during clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli border police. Although ostensibly the clash was in solidarity with the Gazans under siege in Operation Protective Edge, the clashes are also a near daily occurrence.
  • West Bank. Nabi Saleh. 2013. A boy ducks for cover as Israeli soldiers fire rubber bullets at a group of boys throwing rocks at them. Residents of Nabi Saleh have been protesting the Israeli Occupation every Friday after midday prayers since 2009. The protests started after Israelis from the nearby settlement of Halimish took over a small spring that had been on Palestinian land. After widening and adding a bench to the spring, the settlers refused to allow the Palestinians to continue using it. The weekly protests quickly devolve into rock throwing by the Palestinians and tear gas, rubber bullets, and 'skunk' (a spray mixed with water that has a horrific stench that can linger for weeks) in response by the Israelis.
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  • WEST BANK. Nabi Saleh. 2013. A resident of Nabi Saleh after a screening of 'Thank God It's Friday,' a documentary by a Belgian filmmaker about the weekly protests in the town. Residents of Nabi Saleh have been protesting the Israeli Occupation every Friday after midday prayers since 2009. The protests started after Israelis from the nearby settlement of Halimish took over a small spring that had been on Palestinian land. After widening and adding a bench to the spring, the settlers refused to allow the Palestinians to continue to use it.
  • 2013. Hebron. Palestinian Territories/The West Bank. A bullet hole from the Second Intifada in the house of an Israeli settler in the middle of Hebron.
  • West Bank. Nabi Saleh. 2013. A Palestinian boy recovers after getting tear gassed during weekly protests against the Israeli occupation. Residents of Nabi Saleh have been protesting the Israeli Occupation every Friday after midday prayers since 2009. The protests started after Israelis from the nearby settlement of Halimish took over a small spring that had been on Palestinian land. After widening and adding a bench to the spring, the settlers refused to allow the Palestinians to continue using it. The weekly protests quickly devolve into rock throwing by the Palestinians and tear gas, rubber bullets, and 'skunk' (a spray mixed with water that has a horrific stench that can linger for weeks) in response by the Israelis.
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  • 2014. Netivot. Israel. Children in a bomb shelter during Operation Protective Edge. Since 1991, houses have been mandated to be built with bomb shelters, but in the older neighborhoods communal bomb shelters are still in use. During the war against Gaza, the elderly and the young often spent their days in the shelters while their parents went to their jobs.
  • 2014. Gaza. Palestine.The Najar family in their destroyed home. Operation Protective Edge lasted from 8 July 2014 – 26 August 2014, killing 2,189 Palestinians of which 1,486 are believed to be civilians. 66 Israeli soldiers and 6 civilians were killed. It's estimated that 4,564 rockets were fired at Israel by Palestinian militants.
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  • West Bank. Nabi Saleh. 2013. Protestors run away as Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at them. The Israeli settlement of Halimish is in the background. Residents of Nabi Saleh have been protesting the Israeli Occupation every Friday after midday prayers since 2009. The protests started after Israelis from the nearby settlement of Halimish took over a small spring that had been on Palestinian land. After widening and adding a bench to the spring, the settlers refused to allow the Palestinians to continue using it. The weekly protests quickly devolve into rock throwing by the Palestinians and tear gas, rubber bullets, and 'skunk' (a spray mixed with water that has a horrific stench that can linger for weeks) in response by the Israelis.
  • 2013. Hebron. Palestinian Territories/The West Bank. A man drags an olive tree through a clash between school children and Israeli soldiers.
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  • West Bank. Nabi Saleh. 2012. A shebab during a break in the protest.The town of Nabi Saleh have been protesting Israeli occupation since 2009, following the takeover of an ancestral spring by a settlement across the road. Every Friday after prayers, a mix of Palestinian and International activists march on gathered Israeli security forces. The peaceful protest devolves quickly into tear gas, rubber bullets and sprayed stink water from the Israelis, and rock throwing by the Palestinian youths.
  • West Bank. Burin. 2013. A demonstration in Burin, a Palestinian town near Nablus. Residents and activists had moved temporary structures to a hill between the town and the nearby Israeli settlement. The action was intended to draw attention to Israeli policy of occupying Palestinian land for new settlements. In this case, the protestor were driven off the hill and the encampment was dismantled. Israeli settlers attacked the town of Burin and shot one youth, wounding him in the leg.
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  • 2014. Ramallah. The West Bank. Young men leave the funeral of Mohammed Qatari, killed the previous day during a protest outside an Israeli settlement next to Ramallah. According to an eye-witness of the killing {quote}We were near Psagot Settlement at a demonstration. A soldier shot Mohammed a bullet in each of his calves (R and L). We tried to lift him and get him out but the soldiers shot in our direction so we moved back. Two soldiers came and began jumping up and down on his face. They pulled him to the entrance of the settlement and called a Star of David (Magen David) ambulance. They were beating him in the face. We called an ambulance but the soldiers wouldn't let it through and stopped it for 2 hours. When Mohammed was finally moved into the Palestinian ambulance he had an additional bullet in his chest and wounds all over his face.
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  • West Bank. Halimish. 2013. The Mok family prepares to move from their old home to a new one in the settlement of Halimish. The settlers are often armed with handguns, even in their homes. They had purchased the house five years before, but there was a building freeze that resulted from a suit in the Israeli courts intended to stall or halt development in the Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
  • 2018. Israel. Al-Araqeeb. Sheikh Sayah Abu Madi'am of the Al-Turi tribe in Al-Araqeeb. Al-Araqeeb is an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev (Hebrew) or Naqab (Arabic) desert that has been destroyed more than 100 times by the Israeli authorities and then rebuilt by the steadily dwindling populace. The residents of the town claim they own the land surrounding the village, and have receipts of property taxes paid to the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate. The Israeli authorities maintain that the land was never owned by the Bedouin tribes, simply leased for grazing purposed. A lengthy court battle ruled in favor of the Israeli state in 2012, the result of the great majority of land dispute cases that are submitted to the judicial system.. A small group of Bedouins continues to build temporary structures adjacent to the cemetery, though these are frequently demolished by the authorities attempting to expel them. The majority of Bedouin residents of the northern Negev (roughly 90%) were expelled, often violently, in the wake of the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948 and pushed to the West Bank and Gaza.
  • 2014. Gaza. Palestine. A runaway horse by a destroyed mosque in southern Gaza. Operation Protective Edge lasted from 8 July 2014 – 26 August 2014, killing 2,189 Palestinians of which 1,486 are believed to be civilians. 66 Israeli soldiers and 6 civilians were killed. It's estimated that 4,564 rockets were fired at Israel by Palestinian militants.
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  • 2014. Jerusalem. Israel. The funeral of Avraham Walz, 29, killed in an attack earlier that day by a Palestinian in a stolen digger. Six Israelis were injured and the assailant, identified as Muhammed Naif el-Ja’abis. Walz was a member of Toldos Aharon, a strongly Anti-Zionist Hasidic movement.
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  • 2014. Gaza. Palestine. Two men warm themselves by a fire in the destroyed Shujai'iya neighborhood. Operation Protective Edge lasted from 8 July 2014 – 26 August 2014, killing 2,189 Palestinians of which 1,486 are believed to be civilians. 66 Israeli soldiers and 6 civilians were killed. It's estimated that 4,564 rockets were fired at Israel by Palestinian militants.
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