Early this morning police raided the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib in the Negev, destroyed all 40 of its houses, and evicted more than 300 residents. The residents, mostly children, were left homeless. The unprecedented raid began at about 4:30 in the morning, residents were surprised to wake up surrounded by a huge force of 1,500 police with guns, stun grenades, helmets and shields, including hundreds of Special Riot Police  as well as mounted police, helicopters and bulldozers.   At the  residents'' call, dozens of left-wing activists and volunteers arrived from all over the country, helping them to offer non-violent resistance. Several residents were bruised and beaten by police, though not needing medical attention. One woman demonstrator was detained by the police. The police removed the residents'' property into prepared containers, and bulldozers demolished the residential buildings and sheepfolds and destroyed the residents'' fruit ...

When we started to act as a collective we set a goal to use photography as an instrument to create awareness on topics that we, as people who live in this time and place, aspire to change socially or politically. We believe in the power of people to create change in their own society, therefore we wish to directly address indivi-duals and groups with our work. While we do work with mainstream media, they may avoid certain subjects for political or commercial reasons, and so we find it important to create alternative media channels that reach wide publics in more independent, unfiltered, and direct ways.The use of city walls as a platform to exhibit our work generated from this agenda. In Israel, as in other places around the world, it seems that what isn’t shown in the mainstream media does not exist; therefore, a need for public debate does not exist. By hanging photographs   on city walls we try to break this cycle by displaying images that both the media and the public ...