Late Friday night, soldiers invaded the home of Sami Hureini in the S. Hebron Hills, arresting him for "attacking a soldier & disturbing public order" at a nonviolent protest that afternoon. Despite the 'attack', none of the 150 protesters was arrested at the demo itself.
Reminded us of this:
"The evening before the demonstration [...] where the demonstrators gather, [we would] throw a few stun grenades into Bil'in [...] I believe the goal was to deter people from joining the demonstration the next day."
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Sami has been organizing non-violent protests in the territories for years; this isn't his first arrest and probably won't be his last. That's the price you pay for protesting in the oPt, if you're Palestinian. The demo on Friday was to protest this:
We could just as easily talk about demolitions of houses in the S. Hebron Hills; or about the residents whose villages were one day declared a military training area; or about living in a place where there's no way of obtaining building permits, under constant threat of eviction.
There's no security-based justification for nighttime raids to arrest someone who took part in a non-violent daytime protest, or for shooting an unarmed person in the neck, or for declaring an inhabited area as a 'Firing Zone'.

It's not about security. It's about occupation.

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