At the height of the Second Intifada, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made the decision to construct a barrier between the West Bank and Israel. In 2003, 180km of the barrier had been completed. It was already clear that the barrier was to cause great hardships to Palestinians, especially those in areas adjacent to it. Palestinian movement was severely restricted, agricultural lands were lost and access to health and emergency services limited. Despite a 2004 ruling of the International court of Justice against the barrier, Israel carried on with its construction.
Concomitant with the construction of the wall, communities most affected by it began to organize demonstrations and invited Israeli and international activists to join. The first demonstrations occurred in Masha, Beit Sira, Kharbata and Bil’in, where determined protesters eventually brought Israeli court to move the wall further towards the nearby settlement. Gradually, more Palestinian villages joined this struggle, including communities not directly affected by the wall, such as Qaddum and Nabi Saleh.
Residents of Bil’in, northwest of Ramallah, joined by many international and Israeli solidarity activists, marched on Friday to protest the ongoing occupation, land expropriation and Israeli disrespect of the right of Palestinians to worship in al-Aqsa. The IDF deployed in front of the separation wall, inside the village’s fields and olive groves, and attempted to…
Residents of Nabi Saleh marching on Friday to express their rage over the recent Israeli incursions into the al-Aqsa compound and the violent suppression of the freedom of religious worship. The Israeli army attempted to disperse demonstrators using tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition (tutu), which resulted in two injuries, one of them a…
The weekly Friday demonstration in Nabi Saleh, led by the local popular committee was dedicated to Jerusalem (al-Quds) and the political prisoners. Marchers commemorated two martyrs who were killed this week, 16 years old Muhammad Sinokrot from Jerusalem, and Raed Ja’bari, a political prisoner who was beaten and tortured to death in an Israeli jail.…
The Israeli army violently suppressed the weekly Friday demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh against the occupation and land theft. Locals, as well as solidarity activists, marched under the blazing sun from the village’s Martyrs’ Square towards the lands and the spring which were expropriated by Israel and are now being held by settlers…
Solidarity activists joined Palestinian residents of the Ramallah-district village of Nabi Saleh to protest against the ongoing massacre in Gaza. So far, over 2000 people have been killed in five weeks, the majority of whom were civilians. The march, which began at the village’s centre, continued to the main road, where the IDF attempted to…
As the ceasefire in Gaza was violated, resulting in more Palestinian casualties, the people of Nabi Saleh marched in solidarity with Gaza, calling to lift the siege and protesting the massacre. Over 1800 Palestinians were killed so far, about a quarter of them children. The IDF attempted to disperse the march with barrages of tear…
The weekly Friday demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh was a show of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, who have been under constant Israeli fire in the past few weeks. Around 1500 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza strip so far, about a third of them children. Villagers accompanied by international and…
Nidal Shtieh is a freelance photojournalist, filed a civil lawsuit against the State of Israel for damages to his photography equipment and livelihood. About a year ago (12.09.2013), Shtieh was documenting an invasion of settlers to agricultural lands near Salem. The soldiers at the scene not only did nothing to help the rightful owners of…
On the second Friday of Ramadan, residents of NabiSaleh marched in solidarity with Gaza, currently under intense Israeli bombardments, where over 100 people, most of whom women, children and the elderly, were killed, hundreds more injured. Villagers, marching in uniform reminiscent of the Nazi concentration camps, were joined by solidarity activists, as they protested the…
Under the blazing sun, in the last Friday before the month of Ramadan, Palestinians from the village of Nabi_Saleh marched in protest of the current wave of raids, mass arrests and sieges, which followed the disappearance of three settlers. The IDF attacked marchers with barrages of tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets. No major…
