Israel-Hamas War
Water Through Her Lens
Revolt, 2020
The covid-19 outbreak in
Israel had caught us during a fragile politica moment. It was just after 3 rounds of elections where stability and trust between the people and our
leaders was rare to find. PM Binyamin Netanyahu
,
is charged with 3 criminal cases of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.No recovery plans were
introduced to the public and non- democratic laws started to pass in the
parliament like mushrooms after the rain; limiting the basic freedoms and human
rights of the citizens. This included tracking civilians through their mobile
activities and imposing quarantines, and the pass of the 'enabling act' law that
basically dismissed the power of the parliament to monitor the government, and
allowed the government solely to decide and act by its own- outside the democratic
procedure wit
h the excuse of "emergency". This created a very
centralized power dynamic within the country, with no positive results on the
ground. Without a proper plan to
recover from the crisis, and no serious prevention measures, alongside the
gradually and consistent collapse of the economy and the democracy in the country, people
started to feel like they were taken hostage. Businesses started to shut down
one after the other, the percentage of unemployment raised to more than 20%. All culture and arts institutions were
paralyzed.This extreme scenario
had led to the rise of a non-violent resistance civil movement.The protests became a platform and stage to express the deepest concerns and most wanted wishes. It wastagged as one of the most creative protests in the world.