CV Manal Tamimi

In 2009, Israeli settlers from a nearby settlement took control of one of the village's main water sources. By the time this happened, "two-thirds of the villages' land had already been confiscated by the settlers".

Since then, the inhabitants of Nabi Saleh organised the first of the weekly demonstrations that they now hold every Friday. The women have since been leaders of the movement, an example and inspiration to many other places where their existence is due to their resistance on the ground.

Tamimi studied a Master's degree in International Law at Al-Quds University. She is a member of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (PSCC), an umbrella organisation of the Popular Resistance Committees in the West Bank. He has travelled all over the world (Lebanon, Italy, France, Spain and the United States) to denounce the violation of the rights of the Palestinian people.

She herself has experienced repression. She has been arrested four times and wounded several times, once by a sniper's bullet. Even her sons Osama and Muhammad have been imprisoned many times.

Manal Tamimi has co-written the book Ahed Tamimi: A Girl who Fought Back, which recounts the detention of her niece by the Israeli army.

"We may be moving at a snail's pace towards liberation, but we have the determination and will to move towards liberation, no matter how long it takes".