Nabi Saleh

Palestinian youth Ahed Tamimi and her mother, Nariman, are welcomed by family and friends in their village, Nabi Saleh, following their release from an Israeli prison after an eight-month sentence, July 29, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

A Palestinian ‘lioness’ sets her record straight

Co-written with Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi's memoir spotlights the violent context that was missed by the media's fixation with her slapping of a soldier.

By Sarah Ariyan Sakha November 21, 2022

Israeli troops fire tear gas at a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, Jan. 13, 2018. (Flash90)

‘What did the world give us?’ A letter to President Biden from Nabi Saleh

I used to defend the two-state solution as the Palestinians' path to liberation. But after three decades of the Oslo Accords, 'peace' itself is yet to be born.

By Bassem Tamimi January 27, 2021

Footage taken by Talal Abu Rahma shows Jamal al-Durrah trying to protect his son, Muhammad, on September 30, 2000. (France 2/Wikimedia)

Why the ‘Pallywood’ myth endures

A lasting legacy of the Second Intifada is the pernicious idea that Palestinians cannot be trusted to narrate their experience of Israeli oppression.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland October 15, 2020

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Yifat Doron seen after her verdict in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, May 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli activist who slapped Ahed Tamimi’s prosecutor sentenced to eight months

Jerusalem court sentences Yifat Doron, who slapped the military prosecutor during Ahed Tamimi's trial, to eight months behind bars.

By Oren Ziv May 13, 2020

Nariman Tamimi (left), Bassem Tamimi (center), and Ahed Tamimi (right) walk into Nabi Saleh after Nariman and Ahed are released from Israeli prison, July 29, 2018. (Oren Ziv)

‘We gave up on historic Palestine in exchange for nothing’

Bassem Tamimi, who has led popular protests in Nabi Saleh for more than a decade, says the two-state solution is 'no longer an option.'

By Oren Ziv February 19, 2020

Israeli soldiers seen attacking and throwing stones at photographers in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh, April 24, 2015.

Israel to pay photographers attacked by IDF soldiers in Nabi Saleh

Two photographers, one Israeli and one Palestinian, were attacked and had stones thrown at them by Israeli officers and soldiers in 2015. Despite sending one the officers to jail, the state had said the journalists ‘led a riot,’ a claim it retracted as part of the settlement. Israel has agreed to pay compensation to two…

By Oren Ziv May 23, 2019

Yifat Doron. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israeli activist who slapped Ahed Tamimi’s prosecutor wants a political trial

Yifat Doron says she slapped the IDF prosecutor to defend her friend. ‘We are not punished the same way the Palestinians are for the same actions.’ A few minutes before an Israeli military court sentenced teenager Ahed Tamimi to eight months in prison, an Israeli activist, Yifat Doron, approached the military prosecutor, shouted “who are you to…

By Oren Ziv January 14, 2019

Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with the Gaza strip east of Gaza City on May 11, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2018

From Google Maps’ erasure of Palestine, to Israel’s Eurovision win, to the new Jewish-Arab movement that plans to save the Israeli left, here are the most popular articles we published this past year. By +972 Magazine Staff 25. ‘We’ll ensure it doesn’t escalate to violence — on our end’ It’s hard to believe now, but 2018 began…

By +972 Magazine December 26, 2018

Nariman Tamimi (left), Bassem Tamimi (center), and Ahed Tamimi (right) walk into Nabi Saleh after Nariman and Ahed are released from Israeli prison, July 29, 2018. (Oren Ziv)

‘It is easy to be a terrorist, it’s much harder to pursue peace’

Eight months after she was sent to prison for filming her daughter slap an IDF soldier, Nariman Tamimi speaks about her time behind bars, the case for international pressure on Israel, and the way her family is treated by the Israeli media. ‘They know that Ahed is not a terrorist. If we wanted to be terrorists,…

By Oren Ziv August 1, 2018

Ahed Tamimi, who spent eight months in an Israeli prison for slapping an Israeli soldier, is seen upon her release in her home village of Nabi Saleh, July 29, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Ahed Tamimi released after eight months in Israeli prison

Ahed Tamimi and her mother Nariman are released after eight months behind bars for slapping an Israeli soldier. By Oren Ziv Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager who was arrested after being filmed for slapping an IDF soldier in her family’s yard, was released from Israeli prison Sunday morning, along with her mother Nariman, after eight months…

By Oren Ziv July 29, 2018

Ezz a-din Tamimi's father outside the hospital in Ramallah, June 6, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israeli soldiers shoot and kill 21-year-old Palestinian in Nabi Saleh

Izz ad-Din Tamimi is the third resident of Nabi Saleh killed by the IDF since the village began its unarmed protests against the occupation a decade ago. Israeli soldiers shot and killed Izz ad-Din Tamimi on Wednesday morning during a raid on the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. According to the IDF’s version of events, Tamimi, 21,…

By Oren Ziv and Yali (Yael) Marom June 6, 2018

Ahed Tamimi is seen before her hearing at Ofer Military Court near the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 17, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Ahed Tamimi to spend 8 months in prison in plea deal

The 17-year-old from Nabi Saleh filmed slapping an Israeli soldier has already been imprisoned for three months. Her mother and cousin also sign plea deals. Activist slaps prosecutor in court. By +972 Magazine Staff Ahed Tamimi, the teenager from Nabi Saleh arrested after a video of her attempting to push two armed Israeli soldiers off…

By +972 Magazine March 21, 2018

Mohammed Tamimi, 15, was shot in the head with a rubber-coated bullet by the Israeli army shortly before the video of Ahed and Nur was filmed. (Activestills/Oren Ziv)

Months after shattering his skull, IDF arrests teen in pre-dawn raid

Mohammed Tamimi, cousin of Ahed Tamimi, was released several hours later. The Israeli army arrested nine others in Nabi Saleh, and video shows soldiers spraying the village with putrid ‘skunk’ water. By +972 Magazine Staff Israeli soldiers arrested 10 young Palestinians in a pre-dawn raid on the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh early Monday,…

By +972 Magazine February 26, 2018