In the aftermath of the death of Ziad Abu ‘Ein, residents of Nabi Saleh took the streets to protest his killing and carry on his fight against land annexations and settlements. Abu ‘Ein died shortly after an Israeli soldier assaulted him during a peaceful march in Turmus’aya the day before. He was the Palestinian minister…
As today’s weekly demonstration was about the end and the youth were about to disperse, an IDF officer and a sniper started walking towards them. This ignited some stone throwing and one of the boys was shot with live ammunition (“tutu”) in his leg. Only then IDF forces left the scene. The office and sniper…
This Friday, there was no demonstration in Nabi Saleh. Nevertheless, when a few teenagers confronted IDF soldiers near the entrance to the village, a sniper targeted a 14-year-old boy, who sustained a gun shot injury from a live bullet (“tutu”) to his leg. The boy was then transferred to hospital by an ambulance. Recently there…
Marking the second anniversary to the killing of Rushdi Tamimi by the IDF, residents of Nabi Saleh, including Rushdi’s family members marched to protest his killing and the routine killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army. The IDF fired live ammunition, injuring three protesters – two from neighbouring Beit Rima and another woman who was…
The popular struggle coordination committee organized a series of actions stressing the fundamental right of Palestinians to worship in al-Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem. A group of Palestinian activists climbed the apartheid wall in the vicinity of Qalandiyah checkpoint, and using makeshift bridges traversed to the other side as a symbolic gesture, marking their protest…
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…
