Where is nabi saleh

Two weeks ago, on Friday, January 31, the village again held a protest demonstration, this time to express its anger at the Trump plan. Bilal took his camera to a demonstration in Bilin, while Manal was home with the flu. Their son Mohammed, who works in the amusement park in the new Palestinian city of Rawabi, not far from the village, went to demonstrate with his brother, Osama, before heading to Rawabi. Throwing stones and torching tires, the demonstrators descended toward the highway and the Halamish settlement; the soldiers lay in wait and with gunfire and tear gas tried to push them back to the village, then chased after them through the streets.

This time, too, the soldiers dispersed among the village houses and fired freely. The villagers say they fired more live rounds than ever before, speaking of hundreds of shell casings that were collected.

Bilal called Mohammed and Osama from Bilin, and heard from them that the confrontations were at their height. Mohammed headed for the gas station at the entrance to the village, where a driver was to pick him up and take him to the amusement park. In the meantime, Bilal had returned to the village and spent a few minutes filming the events.

Then he returned home, which is when he heard people shouting that Mohammed had been wounded. Someone called Manal and told her that Osama was wounded as well. Bilal rushed out and saw Mohammed on his feet, a bloodstain on his chest, and quickly bundled him into a car. Osama, who was standing next to him, was lightly wounded in the leg by shrapnel. They sped to the clinic in the town of Salfit. Manal drove with her daughter-in-law in her car, but was so agitated that she got lost on the way.

The physicians found a live bullet lodged on the left side of his chest, millimeters from the aorta. There was no way to remove the bullet without endangering his life. The bullet remains in his body. During the disturbance, demonstrators threw stones, Molotov cocktails and burning tires at IDF soldiers.

In response, the soldiers employed crowd-dispersal measures and also fired [at the protesters]. The IDF Spokesperson disregarded the question it had been asked, namely, why do the soldiers use live fire to break up demonstrations?

That was the second bullet that struck Mohammed and remained in his body. Exactly five years earlier, on the same date, January 31, , he was hit in the leg by a 0.

It was actually his third wound. When he was 12, a teargas grenade was fired at his legs while he sat on a fence in the village. He was hospitalized for 12 days because of complications from the wound.

Manal notes that most of the wounded in the village have been shot on the left — more dangerous — side. In fact, she, too, has bullet fragments in her left leg, from when she was shot in a demonstration in Twice she saw demonstrators killed next to her — Rushdi Tamimi and Mustafa Tamimi.

Mohammed says in reply to a question that he will not return to the demonstrations. But his mother, who looks disappointed at the reply, immediately notes that when he was released after 20 months in prison he also said he would never go back to the protests. Ramallah, Occupied West Bank — Ahed Tamimi was just 14 when she rose to international prominence through the release of a video and a series of photos capturing her desperate attempts to save her year-old brother, Mohammad, from the grips of an Israeli soldier in I was scared to even go outside or visit my friends.

In the video, filmed during one of the weekly protests that had been staged in Nabi Saleh for years, A hed is seen hitting and biting the hand of the masked soldier as her mother and aunt hit and tug at his clothes, struggling to pull the soldier away from Mohammad. Shoot her! Every time she left the house, we were scared something would happen to her. The Tamimi family is no stranger to Israeli persecution. In , Amnesty International labelled Bassem a prisoner of conscience during one of his numerous stays in Israeli prison.

Nariman has been detained five times by Israeli forces, and Waed twice, for their involvement in protests. Their home has since been raided more than times by Israeli forces, he said. And Palestinian Islamists like Hamas were steadily acquiring power. Meanwhile, the number of settlers in the West Bank alone more than doubled between and , reaching nearly , it is now more than twice that figure. As Tamimi puts it, by pursuing more violent forms of resistance during the Second Intifada, such as suicide bombing, extremists in both Palestine and Israel were emboldened, and the Israeli occupation deepened.

Critically, Palestinians lost ground in the fight to be seen worldwide as the obviously oppressed, and rising pro-Israel sentiment in American politics limited the pressure applied on Israel by its patron state. But in the decade after the Second Intifada ended, conditions on the ground shifted once again, with Mahmoud Abbas taking control of the Palestinian Authority PA and Hamas assuming power in Gaza, prompting an Israeli blockade and a series of outright wars, weeks-long skirmishes, and economic crises that define everyday life there through today.

I believe in a nonviolent solution. Because I think it will work. In Nabi Saleh, nonviolence has been met with violence. Tamimi claims an approximate number of injured, which includes Israelis and others protesters who join the villagers in solidarity. Two hundred and fifty, he says, have been arrested; a hundred of the arrestees were children, 20 of them under 15 years old.

Jewish Currents was unable to independently confirm all these figures. According to testimonies collected by the group Breaking the Silence, Israeli soldiers who served in Nabi Saleh understood their roles to be more than just preventing terrorist attacks on Israeli or settlement soil. The whole popular struggle thing is problematic. As part of the Accords, the PA assumed responsibilities of governance and police authority over large swaths of Palestinian territory.

But the PA is still subordinate to Israeli military authorities, and to stay in its good graces it is essential for the PA to suppress First Intifada-style resistance. With the signing of Oslo, the idea was that Palestinians would instead gain their freedom through American-mediated negotiation with Israelis. In effect, this means that Israel has outsourced much of the administration of occupation to Palestinians themselves.