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Bassem Tamimi (Photo: Keren Manor/Activestills)

Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: Bassem Tamimi, over a year in prison

Bassem Tamimi has been sitting in an Israeli prison for over a year. Tamimi is a prominent Palestinian activist from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, where he has led the small village’s popular unarmed struggle against Israeli occupation and takeover of land since its beginnings at the end of 2009. Tamimi was arrested…

By Mairav Zonszein April 17, 2012

Foreign national injured at weekly West Bank demonstration

A photographer and two women, one reportedly a French national, were injured by rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at this Friday’s anti-occupation demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. UPDATE: A video of the incident is now embedded, below Three civilians were injured in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh today…

By Lisa Goldman February 3, 2012

Organized chaos and bare life (*): The non-story of the night raids

There exists a general, intentional, cleverly constructed misunderstanding surrounding the true nature of the Israeli occupation. Some say it’s a simple dispute over land, like many others in the world; other think the conflict is about national independence for the Palestinians, prompting statements like, “The Basques and the Kurds aren’t independent either, so why do…

By Noam Sheizaf November 24, 2011

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Nabi Saleh: A tiny village’s struggle against the occupation

In just over one year of unarmed demonstrations in Nabi Saleh, a small Palestinian community in the West Bank, 155 of the village’s 500 residents were wounded (about 60 of them children); 35 homes were damaged and dozens of the village’s people were detained. Yet even after the protest’s leader was put behind bars by…

By +972 Magazine April 19, 2011

Islam Tamimi was arrested Sunday morning in Nabi Saleh. (Photo: Alison Avigayil Ramer)

Nabi Saleh teen arrested, denied due process

Shackled and drowning in an adult prison uniform, 14 year old Islam Tamimi was brought before a military court this morning for a hearing on his detention. Exhausted and nervous, Tamimi sat before a court room of soldiers. Tamimi was arrested during a night raid in the village of Nabi Saleh early Sunday morning. After…

By Joseph Dana January 26, 2011