2024Get email notification for articles from Eden Solomon FollowAug 6 2024The only Israeli who was hurt in the Iranian attack on Israel in April was seven-year-old Amina al-Hassouni from the unrecognized village of Al-Fura in the Negev She was seriously wounded by an interceptor rocket that struck her home In another police and Nature and Parks Authority operation on Wednesday a lion cub was found being held in a pit in the area of the Bedouin town of Bir Hadaj in the Negev Desert seemingly a three to four-month-old female was rescued by officers from the Segev Shalom Police Station and the Border Police The cub was taken to the police station and handed over to Nature and Parks Authority inspectors who will take it to a protected shelter to undergo medical treatment and examinations In total, during the ongoing operation police and Nature and Parks Authority personnel rescued seven monkeys and three lion cubs who were held in illegal conditions Some were found in complicated medical conditions and needed special treatment The Nature and Parks Authority stressed that privately holding protected wild animals such as lions and monkeys is a severe crime due to the significant harm to their welfare which stems from their complex needs which can not be met in a private setting the director of the Department for the Protection of Flora and Fauna in the Nature and Parks Authority stated: "We have recently been witness to the illegal possession of smuggled wild animals that are difficult to raise The harm to wild animals due to inadequate care is evident and unfortunately The animals that came to us over the past week arrived at the treatment center sick "This is terrible animal abuse which does not only endanger the animals but also humans since they could carry dangerous illnesses and pathogens We thank the public for alerting us and the Israel Police when finding videos on the web of the illegal possession of protected animals More than 10 years have passed since the Israeli government officially recognized the Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj Yet it refuses to install new infrastructure hands out demolition orders and does everything in its power to prevent the growth of the village Photos and text by Keren Manor / Activestills.org and Mareike Lauken We’re sitting in the Adisan family’s living room viewing the video recordings of the security cameras installed by the family around its property The videos show four men exiting two commercial vehicles and entering the family’s yard “It’s as if they were breaking and entering nor did they speak to the homeowner,” explains Eyad Adisan The men were Ministry of Interior inspectors and policemen who entered the Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj in the Negev in order to distribute demolition orders and summon several homeowners suspected of building “illegally” for investigation Eyad and his brothers were among those summoned and the cameras were installed due to concern of police interference Bir Hadaj was an “unrecognized” village until 2003. However, more than 10 years have passed since its recognition and the 5,500 residents are still waiting for the government to build proper infrastructure in order to rebuild the village “We agreed to build according to the approved plan but we cannot begin before the proper infrastructure is put in place we receive demolition orders and live in constant fear with no solution in sight,” says Eyad approximately 200 homes in the village have received demolition orders are still living without electricity or basic services “Today they posted a demolition order on the house of a young man in the village His father called him while he was on base to tell him that his home is in danger of being destroyed but we can’t have a roof over our heads?” asks Salama in desperation but they don’t give us a solution for where we can build,” he adds “A situation of desperation is a very dangerous one The Israeli media calls us drug dealers and criminals The police often enters the village and acts violently We have no option for a respectable living and we don’t even have that much room for pasture since all the areas surrounding us either belong to the army are nature reserves or belong to the kibbutzim here We’re fined hundreds of shekels for every sheep they catch look us in the eye and give us answers.” Click here to read this article in Hebrew Activestills is a collective of Israeli united by a conviction that photography is a vehicle for political and social change We believe in the power of images to shape public attitudes and to raise awareness on issues that are generally absent from public discourse We view ourselves as part of the struggle against all forms of oppression and violations of the basic right to freedom Our images are frequently published by many leading human rights as well as by alternative and leading news media like Activestills on Facebook or visit our Flickr photostream Our team has been devastated by the horrific events of this latest war The world is reeling from Israel’s unprecedented onslaught on Gaza inflicting mass devastation and death upon besieged Palestinians as well as the atrocious attack and kidnappings by Hamas in Israel on October 7 Our hearts are with all the people and communities facing this violence We are in an extraordinarily dangerous era in Israel-Palestine The bloodshed has reached extreme levels of brutality and threatens to engulf the entire region are seizing the opportunity to intensify their attacks on Palestinians The most far-right government in Israel’s history is ramping up its policing of dissent using the cover of war to silence Palestinian citizens and left-wing Jews who object to its policies one that +972 has spent the past 14 years covering: Israeli society’s growing racism and militarism We are well positioned to cover this perilous moment – but we need your help to do it This terrible period will challenge the humanity of all of those working for a better future in this land Palestinians and Israelis are already organizing and strategizing to put up the fight of their lives Can we count on your support +972 Magazine is a leading media voice of this movement a desperately needed platform where Palestinian and Israeli journalists and thinkers can report on and analyze what is happening '#' : location.hash;window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery = location.search === '' && location.href.slice(0 location.href.length - window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash.length).indexOf('?') !== -1 '?' : location.search;if (window.history && window.history.replaceState) {var ogU = location.pathname + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash;history.replaceState(null "\/remote-fearful-and-suspicious-why-israels-negev-bedouin-remain-unvaccinated\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=uraI3IbiDESvrbKMbXqxPW1JhUFln5AQYxXdU6xG9oI-1746537139-1.0.1.1-agJubfCVJ7gpDDBv0Ymgx7_6ons4PqUyXqNWKcP6Z8U" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null ogU);}}document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(cpo);}()); Distracted by the ‘fire intifada’ that wasn’t and the progress of the ‘muezzin law,’ the Israeli Left and several Palestinian Knesset members failed to call out the other injustices of the last few weeks It’s easy to condemn the declarations that the recent wave of fires across Israel brought from Israel’s igniter — sorry its lacking-in-culture minister and its minister of uneducation who all claimed that a “fire intifada” was afoot And the Palestinians and the Israeli Left did indeed condemn them I avoided the local news throughout the week that the fires were burning here in Israel The wardens of the only democracy on the planet were appearing in my Facebook and Twitter feeds and I imagined that if I were to tune in to one of Israel’s propaganda channels I would be faced with a grave and self-important presenter disseminating the lies being dished up by the top levels of the government/police/army Leave it, I told myself — I’m still trying to get over the sight of Arabs imitating the muezzin’s call on every website and in all corners of social media. It was a full week before I plucked up the courage to go near a news broadcast, and I was amazed to discover that the tales of the “fire intifada” I had heard from friends had all but vanished from the screen I had somewhat hoped to get scientific explanations contradicting what I had seen in the Arabic and European press about the climate change which had caused fires across the world Particularly sad, and serious, is that no Israeli media outlets — save for Local Call — provided their audience with a map showing the fires that were raging across the rest of the Middle East enlisted to support the lies of the prime minister and his entourage thinks that these fictional Arab terrorists simply said “screw everyone” and began setting fire to the entire Arab world it’s not just the media that failed to address the issue The Israeli Left and Palestinian citizens of Israel A Left that meekly accepts racist and inciting slander without appealing to the international media without calling for demonstrations and without demanding that Netanyahu Miri Regev and Naftali Bennett be investigated for incitement As per the customary cliché in this type of piece the writer is supposed to ask their readers to “imagine the uproar there would be among left-wing organizations in Europe if a leader on the continent had said ‘x’ about Jews.” But I don’t want to tarnish the European Left with comparisons to the “left-wing” in Israel let’s just say that this is another instance like at the start of the 2014 Gaza massacre in which the Right gets riled up and the Left responds just to ease its conscience a little as if receiving ‘likes’ is what’s needed to liberate Palestine A number of Palestinian Knesset members also took part exploiting the situation to put on a show of buffoonery and populist self-promotion as when Ahmed Tibi tried to play a smartphone recording of the muezzin during a plenary session The Palestinian public is worthy of a little more seriousness from its leaders and political activists Instead of trying to amass more ‘likes,’ politicians like Tibi should be calling out whatever spin is being cooked up vis-à-vis the formalization law which is far from the spotlight but which will further deny Palestinians the right to use the land they own As far as both the storm over the fires and the muezzin law go it’s not as if calls to investigate the upper echelons of the State of Israel will lead to any actual investigations Nor will creating more noise over the formalization law hurt its chances of progressing But the battle here is one of ideology against racism and exclusion and Palestinians are racking up one defeat after another It is also immensely important to know that those who are supposed to participate in this struggle (the Israeli Left) or lead it (Arab elected officials) are doing all they can in order to protect the rights of Palestinians Dozens of Bedouin children in the Negev village of Bir Hadaj are sleeping in the freezing desert cold without a roof over their heads because the state demolished their homes a fortnight ago So those children lit a fire in the desert in order to keep themselves warm These are just a few real-life examples from the past few weeks of things that This article was first published in Hebrew on Local Call. Read it here He was a 2019-20 Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School Rami served as a parliamentary consultant and media spokesperson for Palestinian member of Knesset (Israeli parliament) Haneen Zoabi Rami is also co-founder and manager of the first ever “Palestine Music Expo” - an event that connects the local Palestinian music scene to the worldwide industry Rami was the host and co-founder of the Arabic-language critical daily news show “On the Other Hand,” that premiered in November 2022 on Israel's Broadcasting Corporation and has accumulated millions of views since then Rami is also the co-director and co-produced "Lyd," a sci-fi documentary directed with Sarah Friedland that tells the story of his hometown of Lyd since 1948 2024Get email notification for articles from Eden Solomon FollowNov 11 2024Israeli soldiers fatally shot an Israeli Bedouin man near the Egyptian border on Friday This marks the second incident in two months in which a young Bedouin man has been killed in the area by IDF gunfire with the army failing to issue a statement on the incident "\/liveblog_entry\/police-seize-illegally-held-lion-cub-two-monkeys-seen-in-viral-driving-videos\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=o9jHkuMjSdA.Met9Psd3owZX1UgJrK3QXV.fGpKDD_o-1746537151-1.0.1.1-jICMisxIrfqDPsvnGE6wy3TPEqPJ46b5YeXbLF6uXAs" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null Immigration and Border Authority had revoked their citizenship claiming that it had been awarded to them in error