Two people violently arrested at peaceful demonstration in Nabi Saleh
On Friday the 28th of August 2015, two peaceful demonstrators were violently arrested and a child viciously attacked by
Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian village Nabi Saleh in occupied Palestine. Every Friday the people of Nabi Saleh
protest against the illegal settlement build on the villages' land.
Today at around 3 pm one Palestinian male, Mahmoud Tamimi, and one international activist was arrested in the
Palestinian village Nabi Saleh close to Ramallah. They were arrested during a Friday demonstration against the illegal
settlements on the land belonging to the people of Nabi Saleh.
Only a few minutes after the protesters peacefully started their march towards the gate, which is regularly blocked by
the military preventing any movement in- or outside of the village, the Israeli army began attacking the non-violent
protesters with dozens of rounds of tear gas.
The soldiers then ambushed the demonstrators escaping the clouds of tear gas by surrounding them. They attacked and then
arrested Mahmoud Tamimi, shoving him down the hill towards the illegal settlement, where he was forced to lie on the
ground.
Around the same time, a Palestinian boy was violently attacked by a soldier throwing him to the ground, choking and
almost suffocating him in the process. “While the boy was screaming in pain his family came to rescue him from the
soldiers' vicious assault”, Josephine, a Danish activist explains.
A group of peaceful international demonstrators trying to document the attack on the boy, was ambushed by another group
of soldiers, who violently pushed a 31-year old Italian to the ground and proceeded to arrested him.
Both the Palestinian and the international were being held captive in a military jeep by the Israeli army for almost
nine hours, before being brought to a police station.
ENDS