Nabi Saleh: A Political Portrait of a Palestinian Village.
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According to Maan News Agency, on Saturday January 13, the Israeli military declared the Tamimi’s West Bank village of Nabi Saleh a closed military zone. All entrances and exits have been reportedly cordoned off in order to curtail popular protest in the village. Nabi Saleh has roughly 600 inhabitants and is located twelve miles north of Ramallah. The Tamimi family has played a central role in organizing weekly demonstrations in the village since 2010, when Israeli settlers from the nearby colony of Halamish seized Nabi Saleh’s spring. As a result of its efforts and sacrifices over the years, the Tamimi family has become an icon in the Palestinian struggle and a source of inspiration in the region.
Nabi Saleh itself exemplifies precisely what the Tamimi’s and Palestinians as a whole are fighting against: the violence of apartheid. A recent blogpost by Léopold Lambert, an architect, author, and editor-in-chief of The Funambulist magazine, offers a timely political and spatial analysis of the village, in light of Ahed Tamimi’s detention:
Ahed Tamimi is not innocent. She is not innocent of what the Israeli court accuses her, and she is not innocent in the way we might commonly say that a child is innocent. The Israeli apartheid has striped and continues to strip any form of innocence that one could expect a child to be entitled to as we have powerlessly witnessed in the most dreadful hours of the 2014 Israeli bombardments on Gaza and the killing of three Palestinian children on the beach