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Oren Ziv

Oren Ziv

Oren Ziv is a photojournalist, reporter for Local Call, and a founding member of the Activestills photography collective.

Recent Articles
Mourners at the gravesite of slain Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, including his cousins Alaa Hathaleen (left) and Tariq Hathaleen (right), in the West Bank village of Umm Al-Khair, Aug. 7, 2025. (Oren Ziv)
PHOTOS: Awdah Hathaleen laid to rest after Israel withheld body for 10 days
Israel finally allowed the burial of the Palestinian activist shot by a settler in Umm Al-Khair, only to disrupt his funeral with checkpoints and restrictions.
By Oren Ziv August 7, 2025
Rabbi Avraham Zarviv poses for a picture on June 29, 2025. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
Israel’s destroyer-in-chief in Gaza lives in a settlement home marked for demolition
Avraham Zarviv, who boasted of razing 50 buildings a week as a reservist in Gaza, has an unenforced demolition order on his own West Bank home.
By Oren Ziv July 30, 2025
Awdah Hathaleen celebrates his 27th birthday with friends, in Um Al-Khair, the West Bank. (Emily Glick)
‘The most peaceful person’: Umm Al-Khair mourns activist slain by Israeli settler
Contrary to the settler’s account, eyewitness testimony and analysis of video footage shows that Awdah Hathaleen was gunned down in cold blood.
By Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham and Oren Ziv July 29, 2025
Syrian Druze head towards the border fence to pick up people crossing from the Israeli side, in the Syrian Jawlan, July 16, 2025. (Oren Ziv)
‘I haven’t been here in 40 years’: Emotional reunions as Druze cross Israel-Syria fence
After a protest breached the Jawlan barrier, Druze from both sides rushed to see relatives as police stood by — a glimpse of what the land was and could be.
By Oren Ziv July 18, 2025
Israeli settlers attack the village of Turmus Ayya in the West Bank, June 26, 2025. (Oren Ziv)
With West Bank annexation in the air, settlers revel in their impunity
Israeli settlers have rampaged through Palestinian towns and rioted at a military base in recent weeks, knowing government officials have their backs.
By Oren Ziv and Shatha Yaish July 9, 2025
Israeli rescue crews clear the debris and search for the missing in the southern Israeli city of Be'er Sheva after an Iranian missile strike hit a seven-story building, claiming the lives of at least four people, June 24, 2025. (Oren Ziv)
12 days that brought the war home to Israelis
Iran’s missiles caused many Israelis to feel existential fear for the first time. Even if the ceasefire holds, their shattered sense of immunity will linger.
By Oren Ziv June 24, 2025
UK-flagged vessel Madleen enter the Ashdod port, after the Israeli army took control on the vessel overnight, in Ashdod, June 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Trolling the Madleen reveals the depths of the Israeli media’s delusion
After Israel seized the Gaza-bound flotilla and subjected its passengers to humiliating displays, the media and public framed it as a “PR win.”
By Oren Ziv June 11, 2025
Israeli police officers arrest activist Itamar Greenberg at an anti-war protest in Tel Aviv, May 24, 2025. (Oren Ziv)
‘Next time, we’ll tattoo a Star of David on your face’
After his arrest, Israeli prison officers forced a Jewish anti-war activist to wear a pro-Israel shirt, a degrading practice often used against Palestinian prisoners.
By Oren Ziv June 2, 2025
Settlers seen in their newly-established outpost inside the Palestinian village of Maghayer Al-Dir, in the West Bank, May 21, 2025. (Oren Ziv)
In a single week, a new settler outpost erases an entire Palestinian community
After building on their land, Israeli settlers attacked and drove out residents of Maghayer Al-Dir, one of the last villages in the southern Jordan Valley.
By Oren Ziv May 26, 2025
An Israeli bulldozer demolishes a house in Rafah, April 2025.
‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction
While airstrikes account for mass casualties, bulldozers and explosives are flattening Gaza from the ground — what soldiers say is a systematic campaign to make the Strip unlivable, a joint investigation reveals.
By Meron Rapoport and Oren Ziv May 15, 2025
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