Watch: Four young Israelis refuse for the 4th time to join the Israeli army, in protest of the occupation a& apartheid. Today they were sentenced each for 45 days in military prison
My Hero: Maoz Inon, son of Bilha, 76, and Yakovi, 78, murdered at Netiv HaAsara on October 7th, started a protest tent outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem calling Netanyahu to resign and to end the war
Now in Tel Aviv: hundreds of Israeli Jews and Palestinians with Israeli citizenship protest against the war, for ceasefire and for the release of the hostages. This is the first protest against the war permitted by the Israeli police, following an appeal to the Supreme Court.
While Israeli officials are claiming that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Palestinian gunfire, journalist Ali Samudi that was next to her said to local media that the army opened fire towards them, and that there were no Palestinian gunmen near them.
Conscientious objector Tal Mitnick was sentenced yesterday to a 3rd prison term of 45 days after serving two 30day sentences, for his refusal to enlist in military service in protest of Israel’s war on Gaza & the occupation. On Sunday, Sofia Orr was sentenced to 20 days in prison
1/2 I documented many protests and funerals as a photographer, but the brutal attack of the Israeli police against the family & colleagues carrying the coffin of
#ShireenAbuAkleh
was one of the hardest moments I witnessed and documented
Watch: Israeli youth Yuval Dag speaks at the “anti occupation block” in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
Today, he refused to join the Israeli army, and was sent to detention
@Mesarvot_
Today, Shahar Schwartz, 18 y/o, announced he refuses to join the Israeli army, in protest against the occupation. He was sentenced to 10 days in military prison. “I refused to join the army because it enforces a policy of inequality and destroys any hope for change" he stated
This evening, Tel Aviv police arrested 18 activists during a protest against political arrests & for a ceasefire. Shortly after, right wing activists protested for the re-occupation of Gaza, transfer of all Palestinians & rebuilding of settlements in Gaza. No one was arrested
2/5 During the tour, journalists were allowed to speak to the hundreds of soldiers on site, without the supervision of the army's spokesperson team. I24 reporter said she heard it “from soldiers”.
3/5 Soldiers I spoke with in Kfar Aza yesterday didn't mention "beheaded babies”. The army's spokesperson stated: “We can not confirm at this point… we are aware of the heinous acts Hamas is capable of”
Watch: An Israeli soldier hands a tear gas grenade to an Israeli settler, who throws it towards Palestinian farmers during olive harvest today in Burin
#westbank
(credit:
@Yesh_Din
)
Four Israeli conscientious objectors enter Tel HaShomer army base to announce their refusal to join the Israeli army over its policies toward Palestinians.��Shahar Schwartz, Nave Shabtay levin, Einat Gerlitz & Evyatar Rubin refused to join the army and will be jailed later today
4/5 This doesn't mean that war crimes were not committed. The scene in Kfar Aza was horrific, with dozens of bodies of Israelis
murdered in their homes.
Those are some of the signs the Israeli police didn’t allow into the protest against the war and for ceasefire this evening in Tel Aviv;
-One massacre does not justify the other
-No to apartheid
-No to the occupation and siege, stop the war
-Bibi go home
TODAY: 18 y/o conscientious objector Sofia Orr declares her refusal to enlist in mandatory military service as an act of protest against the war on Gaza & the occupation, at Israeli army’s Tel Hashomer recruitment center. She was sentenced to 20 days in prison.
@Mesarvot_
Tonight: Activists light 100 candles opposite the Israeli army headquarters in Tel Aviv to commemorate the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of 2023
Settlers I spoke with at the event calling to settle in Gaza refuse to answer directly what will happen to the Palestinians living in Gaza if settlements will be built “They will leave” told me Daniella Weiss
Israeli police arrest of two Palestinian journalists this evening in
#SheikhJarrah
. Tomorrow journalists will protest against the recent attacks -17:30 at the neighborhood
Now: Israeli right wing settlers enter Eretz crossing an try to build a structure near the border wall with Gaza. They are calling the government to allow them to settle in Gaza
Today in Hebron an Israeli soldier says to a group of Palestinian and Israeli activists: “Ben Gvir will make order here, he will end all the things you are doing…I’m the law here and I say you are acting against the law” video Credit: Issa Amro
Watch: Israeli conscientious objector Naveh Shabtay-Levin, speaks before entering the military prison, for the second time. Shabtay-Levin is part of a group of 4 conscientious objectors that are refusing conscription to protest against occupation & apartheid (Video:
@Mesarvot_
)
Tonight in Tel Aviv, the police attacked with a water canon a mach of family members of hostages held in Gaza (including one released hostage) as they arrived to the area of the anti government protest (credit: Yair Palti)
Earlier today, after demolishing all the houses in thr village of Wadi Al Khalil in the Negev/ Naqab, the Israeli forces demolished the local mosque before leaving
Watch: Israeli police disperse a solidarity demo with
#Huwara
in
#TelAviv
following the attack by settlers yesterday. Protesters shout: “where are the arrested from Huwara?” as the police released the few settlers that were arrested last night
Tonight in Tel Aviv: Israeli youth who refuse draft placed a banner outside the army’s central command: “we won’t kill and we won’t be killed in the service of settlements” during the mass anti government demonstration
Saint Joseph hospital releases CCTV footage from Friday, showing the Israeli police storming the hospital and attacking participants in the funeral of
#ShireenAbuAkleh
and also patients who arrived for treatment
Today: left wing activists protested outside the Hatzerim Air Force base, against the ongoing bombardment of Gaza. The Activists held banners reading “the blood is on your hands” and “there are people in Gaza”, with their hands colored in red.
Personally, the most interesting thing was to see thousands of Israelis dancing and singing, which not very common in Israel after October 7th. But they are, as they see the war as a great opportunity to build settlements in Gaza
This evening during the mass protest in Tel Aviv “Apartheid made in Israel”
The activists stated “Democracy means putting an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people. Israelis cannot fight for basic civil rights while denying them from Palestinians”
Tonight in Tel Aviv: Released hostage Ilana Grisewsky takes cover as police use a water cannon during a protest calling on Israel's government to return the hostages held in Gaza
Last week, Israeli officials were trying to convince the entire world that the army can investigate the killing of
#ShireenAbuAkleh
. This morning
@haaretz
reports that Israel's army police will not investigate it on the grounds that “there is no suspicion of a criminal act”
A sign at the anti occupation block at the mass demo in
#Telaviv
“ This is the flag of the Palestinian people, who have been denied democracy by Israel for 75 years. Democracy for Jews only is not democracy”
Solidarity with journalist Israel Frey
that is under attack by the right wing in Israel. The video is from a protest outside his house last night, just because he insists to talk also about the Palestinians in Gaza.
@freyisrael1
Watch: Four Israeli conscientious objectors enter Tel HaShomer army base to announce their refusal to join the Israeli army in protest of occupation and apartheid
#Israel
#Palestine
@Mesarvot_
Now outside the Jerusalem court: solidarity protest with Dr Meir Baruchin, a history teacher, arrested last week after posting on Facebook messages opposing the war in Gaza and against the killing of Palestinians in the West Bank
Now in Erez crossing: exactly like in the West Bank, right wing settlers are building an outpost near the Gaza wall, while the army is standing and watching
Watch: Israeli settlers attack left wing activists that were planting trees together with Palestinian farmers in Burin
#westbank
(credit: Rabbis for Human Rights)
According to Israeli channel 12, the Israeli line of defense at the ICJ regarding the statements of Israeli officials about destroying Gaza, that were quoted in the appeal will be that: “Some of those quoted are not decision makers, the ones that are - didn’t mean what they said”
Today: Israeli police arrested 7 protesters as Rabbis from the US and Israel marched towards Erez crossing, carrying aid for Gaza and calling to end the war
Today: Palestinians try to cross from the
#WestBank
town of A-ram into
#Jerusalem
, to attend the 4th Friday prayer of
#Ramadan
in
#AlAqsa
. Israeli authorities allowed only men above 50 to enter from the West Bank to Jerusalem for the Friday prayer.
On Thursday morning, left-wing activists sprayed graffiti on the entrance of the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv calling for the “liberation of the Gaza ghetto”, covered it with "blood" and placed pictures of the three Palestinian children who were killed in the bombing of
#gaza