Palestine
Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics carry a protestor injured by Israeli forces, as clashes break out near the West Bank city of Ramallah following the announcement President Donald Trump will move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, December 2017.
Protests continue across East Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza against Trump's Jerusalem announcement. Palestinians see it as further legitimizing Israel's occupation and annexation of East Jerusalem. For Deutsche Welle.
Palestinian protestors use perfume to counter the effects of tear gas, as they hide behind a petrol station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, near the Israeli Beit El settlement.
A Palestinian protestor holds a hand-made slingshot as he rests at a clash with Israeli forces in the West Bank.
Funeral for 19-year-old Amin Mahmoud Aqell in Beit Ula, west of Hebron, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces during a clash at Beit El checkpoint, north of Ramallah.
Aqell had been at each protest against Trump's announcement to move the US embassy to Jerusalem before he was killed.
Aqell had been standing by a group of press photographers for some time before running towards an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) soldier and stabbing him with a small knife, prompting the soldiers to shoot him.
A Palestinian is arrested following the storming of IDF soldiers as protests continue for the month of December against the US embassy move. For MondoWeiss.
A Palestinian protestor is carried away by Israeli forces near Ramallah, West Bank.
Israeli forces threaten press photographers who have gathered to document an arrest of a protestor near the illegal Beit El settlement.
Red Crescent paramedics are restricted from treating a wounded protestor who was arrested.
Palestinian youth cover their faces to prevent being arrested by Israeli forces following clashes. The IDF have a dedicated photographer to document those protesting, particularly the youth throwing Molotov cocktails.
Mohammed Tamimi, 15, can barely move from his laying position after being shot at close range with a rubber bullet by the IDF in his hometown of Nabi Saleh. For Middle East Eye.
Part of Mohammed Tamimi's skull was required to be taken out in order to remove a bullet lodged at the back of his brain.
Mohammed is reunited with his Mother, Emthal after being arrested in a night raid following being shot. Considering the skin of his head still only covered Mohammed's brain, it was extremely dangerous for him to even go outside at the time. "I feel good about getting surgery this Saturday, when I get the part of my skull back, they can arrest me anytime, I don't care," Mohammed said.
The Church of Nativity, better known as the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem undergoes restoration revealing an entrance hall, which was once fully covered in mosaics before rain destroyed most of them. December 2018 for Middle East Eye.
After years of careful work, the beauty of the long-buried floor mosaics dating back to the origins of Christianity has been restored to a condition close to that seen 16 centuries ago.
An Italian worker applies a protection coating to the floor mosaics. Depending on the colour of the stone, a different solvent is used to bring out the white, red, yellow and orange.
The floor mosaics, which lie about 30 centimetres below the current church floor level, make up decorative "carpets" dating back to when the church was built on the site by the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century.
Friends mourn over Ezzaddin Abd El Hafeezh Tamimi in Ramallah Hospital after being shot at close range by Israeli soldiers in a night raid.
Tamimi's father, at the head of the funeral procession leaving the hospital. Once the procession reached their village of Nabi Saleh, he fainted at the gravesite.
Friends of Tamimi try to break the blockade Israeli soldiers set up on the way to the burial in Nabi Saleh
Tamimi's family bury his body in Nabi Saleh, a village well known for its activism against Israeli occupation.
Crowds of protesters in Ramallah chanted and hoisted signs calling for an end to Palestinian Authority sanctions against Gaza before they were quickly cut off as Palestinian National Security Forces threw sound grenades and fired tear gas into the crowd. June 2018 for Middle East Eye.
Palestinian security forces in riot gear wielded batons and used Taser weapons against protesters, with dozens of people carried away and arrested.
Supporters of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, who wore Fatah caps to identify themselves, staged a counter-demonstration alongside the protest, leading to street fights and clashes between the rival crowds as security forces looked on.
Ahmad Abu Dahuk, 32, is waiting for the day his village Khan al Ahmar will be demolished by the Israeli Army, making way for further settlement expansion. The Bedouins of Khan al Ahmar are unable to build permanent housing structures as they live within Area C of the West Bank, under full Israeli control. For Middle East Eye.
One of the Israeli settlements, illegal under international law, sits on the hill overlooking Khan al Ahmar. Most settlements are built high up with multiple look out positions for security reasons.
The Israeli settlement of Amihai in the West Bank – illegal under international law – was approved by the government to be built after US President Trump camp to office.
An unfinished road in Amihai where further private apartments will be built. In the 22 months before Trump was elected in November 2016, 4,476 housing units were approved in settlements across the West Bank, according to the Israeli organisation Peace Now. But in the 21 months since, that figure more than tripled to 13,987 housing units.
Israeli soldiers take cover in olive groves as they take aim at Palestinian protestors throwing rocks during a protest commemorating the Nakba, May 2018.
US President Donald Trump opened the new US embassy in Jerusalem on the 70th anniversary of the Nakba - meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic, igniting fresh protests in the West Bank and Gaza.
Over 700,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The expulsion, now termed the Nakba, resulted in Palestinians being forced into refugee camps across Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, where the majority of them still reside. Palestinians protest to this day for their right to return.
Rubbish is set on fire by Palestinian protestors in order to block the sight of Israeli soldiers firing tear gas, rubber bullets, live bullets and sound bombs during a clash on Nakba Day.
A young Palestinian girl covering her face with a keffiyeh – a national symbol of resistance – is treated for an injury by the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Due to travel restrictions on Palestinians enforced by Israeli authorities, many children descendent from 1948 refugees don't have the opportunity to visit their heritage land, including Jerusalem where Trump's new embassy is opened.
Before the US moved their embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, no country had their embassy in the divided city, as it is widely considered to violate international law. Palestinians claim the city as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Palestinians say the US embassy location in the neighborhood of Arnona in West Jerusalem is on stolen Palestinian land. Like many Palestinian population centres in 1948, Arnona was seized by Haganah fighters - the main Jewish paramilitary force in British Mandate-era Palestine.
There are arguments the US embassy move has killed any possibility of a two-state solution, which would grant Palestine a state with its borders along the Green Line and East Jerusalem as the capital.
Israeli Authorities regularly reject building permits for Palestinians living in Area C – under full Israeli Control and constituting about 61% of the West Bank. Subsequently, they routinely demolish homes and schools. This is a new classroom built in Zanouta, south of Hebron, after Israeli forces demolished their school. September 2018 for Middle East Eye.
Aalia Issa (R) and her brother sit in their new classroom in Zanouta. Having the school in their village saves these young children from walking 7km each way to the nearest town in blistering heat and crossing main highways.
Residents of Zanouta built their new school with cement blocks so Israel was required to issue a notice before demolishing the building, in difference to temporary structures.
Relatives of Palestinian agroecology trainees forage for organic produce at Om Sleiman farm in Bil'in, the West Bank. Crops now grow in front of the seemingly never-ending construction of Israeli settlement Modi'in. February 2019 for Al Jazeera.