RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Nabi Samuel - 16 September 2022. Palestinian protesters raise national flags during a demonstration against Jewish settlements, and in solidarity with prisoner with cancer Nasser Abu Hamid at the military checkpoint near the West Bank village of Nabi Samuel.

0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Abdullah Abu Rahma, the Wall and Settlements Resistance Commission.

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Nabi Samwel, also written as an-Nabi Samwil, overlooks occupied East Jerusalem on one side and Ramallah on the other. With approximately 300 people in no more than a dozen houses, the village is located in the “seam zone” — an area separated from the rest of the West Bank by Israel’s apartheid wall.

The inhabitants are considered West Bank residents and even though they are on Jerusalem’s side of the wall, they are only allowed to go to the nearest West Bank city, Ramallah, for necessary activities such as buying food or accessing medical care.

Required to submit to a tight regime of permits, everything in their lives is monitored: from the quantity of groceries they bring to the village to the people visiting. Each and every movement of people or products is being controlled by an Israeli “liaison office.”

There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israel’s nation-state law that passed last July stated that building and strengthening the colonial settlements is a “national interest.”

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