Marking the 50th anniversary to the founding of the Fateh movement, residents of Nabi Saleh march defiantly towards their confiscated lands and water spring, briefly taking over military-owned bulldozers parked near the checkpoint. The IDF attempted to disperse demonstrators using tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition (‘tutu’ bullets). No major injuries reported. If…
Jaffa-based activists welcome Samer al-‘Issawi, the former political prisoner and hunger striker, recently released from Israeli prison. ‘Issawi was received at the city’s historic clock tower square, where activists staged daily vigils calling for his release over an extended period of time. Update: during the summertime Israeli assault on Gaza, Samer Issawi was rearrested and…
On Boxing Day (the day after Christmas), villagers and solidarity activists marched in Nabi Saleh in protest of the occupation and land theft. Some of the local youths wearing Santa Clause costumes, symbolizing a holiday marking ‘peace on earth’ were forced to flee the IDF’s tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets. No major injuries…
The weekly Friday demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh launched this week from the centre of the village, as protesters, villagers and solidarity activists a like marched together towards the expropriated spring. The IDF attempted to disperse the march with tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets. Soldiers raided the village, chasing after Palestinian…
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…
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…
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…
