The cycle continues….week in and week out. Children.. young boys no more than sixteen or seventeen years old throw stones and rocks at invading IDF soldiers in the village of An Nabi Salih. The youth (Shabab in Arabic) create a road block of sorts at the entrance to the village. The IDF responds with tear gas and bullets, some rubber and some live. It is a dance of sorts. The children throw stones, they try to stop the army jeeps from entering the village. They try to hit the soldiers. The soldiers respond by firing weapons directly at them. Eventually the village is covered in tear gas. Collective punishment for the weekly demonstrations. No one can escape the blanket of tear gas….woman, children, old people. The occupier reminds the occupied who is master and who is in control. The white intifada is well under way and the resistance in An Nabi Salih as well as other villages only grows week after week.

The following is a report from Anarchists Against the Wall about the demostration in An Nabi Salih on 14 May 2010:

Around 50 Nabi Saleh residents, other Palestinians and international and Israeli supporters participated in this week’s demonstration against the strangulating occupation and the Halamish settlement. This time the peaceful march was not attacked at first by the Israeli army. Protesters scattered around the main road that crosses Nabi Saleh, while the army was waiting on the road close to the settlement and the village’s hill top that leads to the spring nearby. Soon enough clashes erupted, and the army’s tear gas grenades set fire throughout the area. Tear gas and sound grenades were also thrown on and around houses that are located on the village’s hill top.

Around 15:00 the army entered the main road and fired tear gas to more populated village’s areas. During that time, 2 Israeli protesters were apprehended and detained by soldiers, one of them dragged on the road. The army retreated then. It turned out the protester who was dragged was also beaten in the car while in custody, and had her head bleeding. The protesters were released around 19:00 while clashes were still taking place.

A bit earlier on soldiers came out of one of the army’s jeeps with tied assault dogs, storming on the retreating protesters. None were apprehended, and the army went back to his traditional and mostly human-exploitive weapons of tear gas and rubber-coated metal bullets.

Below is shocking footage of IDF soldiers beating an Israeli protester in Nabi Salih on the same day as the above video