1. Bassem Tamimi is a Palestinian grassroots activist and an organizer of protests against Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.
17 Facts About Bassem Tamimi
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Bassem Tamimi was convicted by an Israeli military court in 2012 for "sending people to throw stones, and holding a march without a permit".
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Bassem Tamimi has been arrested by the Israeli authorities over a dozen times, at one point spending more than three years in administrative detention without trial.
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Bassem Tamimi has said that he advocates grassroots, nonviolent resistance, but has said that stone-throwing is an important symbol of Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation.
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Bassem Tamimi was arrested again in October 2012 for a demonstration in a supermarket, but released in early 2013.
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Three weeks after the outbreak of the Gaza war, on 29 October 2023, Bassem Tamimi was again placed under administrative detention.
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Bassem Tamimi is the father of Ahed Tamimi, who was sentenced to eight months in prison under a plea bargain in 2018.
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Bassem Tamimi was ten weeks old at the time of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank in June 1967 and hid with his mother in a cave during the conflict.
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Bassem Tamimi's home has been designated for demolition by Israel's Civil Administration.
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Bassem Tamimi is an admirer of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and believes that armed conflict against a more powerful Israeli opponent will only bring disaster.
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On 24 March 2011 Bassem Tamimi was detained by Israeli forces following a demonstration.
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Bassem Tamimi was held in a military prison for thirteen months.
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On 27 April 2012 Bassem Tamimi was released on 12,000 shekels bail due to a stroke suffered by his mother two weeks previous.
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Bassem Tamimi stated that testimony from a 14-year-old witness had been inconsistent and therefore unusable and that she had found misrepresentations by interrogators about the content of the confession of another witness.
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Under the terms of Bassem Tamimi's suspended sentences, he would be imprisoned for two months if he participated in an illegal demonstration within two years of the sentencing, and imprisoned for seven months if he participated in "activity against the security forces" within five years.
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Bassem Tamimi was permitted a visit from his lawyer shortly before Eid al-Fitr in April 2024.
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Bassem's cousin Rushdi Muhammed Sa'id Tamimi was convicted of the October 1993 murder of Haim Mizrahi, a settler from Beit El, and was released in 2013.