FRIDAY EVENING DEMONSTRATIONS IN PALESTINE - Marthe Haarstad

A young protestor has climbed up in an old tree

In the different villages in the Vest Bank, like Nabi Salih, Benin and Jenin, youths and elders organize demonstrations each Friday after prayer. International activists and some press, travels to the rural villages to document or to support the locals in their protests

Two masked protestors exchange teargas canisters. The canisters are from the Israeli military (IDF) and have not been detonated

Teargas falling in the dry fields

A protestor lighting a fire in the evening. The protest are almost finished for the day

The IDF, (Israeli defence force) in the background of a protestor fixing his sling

Almost all the protestors are using different kinds of face

masking. This is both to have protection from the teargas and to keep them from being recognized

An israeli soldier stands in the middle of town in Nabi Salih

The residents in the village of Nabi Salih have collected a lot of used tear-gas canisters, some of them they use as flower pots

A young protestor shows the mark on his stomach from the rubber bullets

Blood on the ground after one of the protestors was hit in the face by a rubber bullet

A masked protestor has a t-shirt with the word inspiration on the back