Linah Alsaafin

One year after the 15 March movement’s call for national unity, what has the youth-led mobilization achieved?

Linah Alsaafin witnessed the murder of Mustafa Tamimi at the hands of the Israeli army who had invaded Nabi Saleh village.

Last week, six courageous Palestinians attempted to defy racism, segregation and apartheid by boarding Jewish settler-only buses in the hopes of reaching Jerusalem, a city off limits to Palestinians in the West Bank. However, the symbolic, media-friendly act — and its debatable relevance to the average Palestinian — begs some important questions.

I asked a few Nabi Saleh children why they throw rocks. Their responses were simple: We don’t want the army here.

Nariman Tamimi must not be characterized as just the jailed grassroots activist Bassem’s wife. Linah Alsaafin interviews for The Electronic Intifada.

Every child has a right to a childhood. The Nabi Saleh children are denied this right. Linah Alsaafin describes one Friday afternoon in the occupied West Bank village.