Tag: Hallamish Settlement
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As B’TSelem documents shooting of man, employee is arrested
by Aida Gerard 11 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A 55 year old Palestinian man was taken to hospital from Nabi Saleh due to an injury from a rubber coated steel bullet. After two hours of demonstrating the Israeli Occupation Forces invaded Nabi Saleh and arrested one Palestinian, 36 year old Bilal Tamimi,…
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They try to steal our history, not just our land
9 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The demonstrations in Nabi Saleh started the 21 of November 2009, after the illegal settlement of Halamish expanded, costing locals in land and their source of water for home and agricultural use, a spring declared holy by the settlers. Since the beginning of the demonstrations the village faced outstanding…
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Nabi Saleh endures despite military presence
26 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At 10 a.m. we arrived at Nabi Saleh to interview the neighbors about what had happened the night before. We found out on the internet that something was going on, thanks to Tamimi Press, a Facebook page created by a young designer who lives in the…
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Bassem Tamimi: “Our destiny is to resist”
2 May 2011 | Electronic Intifada When I met Bassem Tamimi at his home in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh this January, his eyes were bloodshot and sunken, signs of the innumerable sleepless nights he had spent waiting for Israeli soldiers to take him to prison. As soon as two children were…
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An Nabi Saleh demonstrates against violence in the midst of extensive brushfires
International Solidarity Movement 16 May 2010 This past Friday, May 14, the town of An Nabi Saleh held its weekly demonstration. Overly aggressive Israeli military tactics started a colossal brushfire, which reaped viable farmland. The weekly demonstration confronts the illegal expansion of Halamish settlement onto village land. Great local support brought out over 100 Palestinians,…