On a Friday afternoon, a battalion of Israeli soldiers were using Nabi Saleh as a training ground, practicing several attack scenarios. When the locals confronted the soldiers, demanding the intruders leave their village, the soldiers began to fire barrages of tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition. In an attempt to target photographers who…
On Friday afternoon, youth from Nabi Saleh and surrounding villages confronted Israeli troops that congregated around the main entrance to the village. The convergence of Israeli troops around the village is aimed to provoke and intimidate Palestinian residents and those who drive on this thoroughfare from Ramallah. The youth attempted to repel the soldiers with…
On “Friday of the Tires,” as nicknamed by Palestinians, the Israeli military invaded the West Bank community of Nabi Saleh in the late afternoon. At the same time, thousands of Palestinians were burning tires near the de-facto border with Israel, demanding an end to the decade-long siege and their right to return to their homeland.…
Around 100 people gathered in the Ramallah-district village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank after Friday’s midday prayers. They were there to stage solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners, hunger striking in Israel’s jails. On 17 April, observed as Prisoner’s Day, about 1500 political prisoners of different factions launched a hunger strike to protest…
In solidarity with the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoners, residents of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh marched and confronted the Israeli army. The strike was launched on Prisoner’s Day, 17 April, and included thousands of political prisoners of different factions. The prisoners demand immediate improvement to the conditions of their incarceration, such as…
Photographed & Edit by Bilal Tamimi Residents of Nabi Saleh marched on Friday to reclaim ‘Ayn al-Qaws, a spring which was confiscated by the settlers a few years ago. Since the expropriation, the military rarely allowed Palestinians to enter the spring and its environs, especially on Fridays. Villagers marched to the spring, accompanied by solidarity…
Hundreds marched today for the annual “Open Shuhadaa Street” protest in the occupied city of Hebron. Shuhadaa street in the old city used to be a lively market place, but was abruptly shut down by the Israeli military following the Goldstein Massacre of 1994. Barukh Goldstein, a settler and military doctor, fired at Muslim worshipers…
About 15,000 protesters congregated in the town of ‘Ar’ara to protest the recent wave of home demolitions by the state. In previous weeks, the state demolished 11 homes in the town of Qalanswa as well as many more in the southern town of Umm al-Hiran, slated to be completely demolished for a new Jewish-only settlement…
After several of the village’s young men were released from Israeli prison, residents of Nabi Saleh confronted the occupying army, defying the army’s expropriation of their water spring. The soldiers fired barrages of tear gas on demonstrators, including the new and improved-range kind. No major injuries reported. If you like my work, please also ‘like’…
Commemorating the battle of al-Qastel, Palestinians from the village of Nabi Saleh confronted the Israeli army protesting the continued colonial violence and land expropriations. Villagers commemorated the battle of al-Qastel of 1948, famous for the steadfastness and heroism of Palestinian resistance fighters led by ‘Abd al-Qader al-Husseini against Zionist militias. However, al-Husseini fell in battle,…
