This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.On 24 February 1989, Nablus Palestinians dropped a cement block on the head of Binyamin Meisner, killing him.
[3][4] During the First Intifada, violent demonstrations took place in Nablus after a funeral cortege was fired on by Israeli troops on 18 December 1988.
[9] Journalist Stephen Franklin of the Chicago Tribune described Nablus, where Meisner was killed, as one of the "most militant" towns in the West Bank, writing that "rocks, stones and huge hunks of metal" were regularly "dropped" on Israeli soldiers "from rooftops as they patrol alleys covered with freshly painted slogans urging on the uprising.
"[10] The week before Meisner was killed, Israeli troops shot "a young Arab who was poised to throw a concrete block down on them from a roof in the market in Nablus on Thursday night.
[12][23][24] According to the official Palestinian Authority daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the Palestinian Authority "honored" Samir Al-Nanish and his fellow released prisoners upon their arrival in Nablus with a "reception ceremony" attended by Fatah Central Committee Member Tawfiq Tirawi.
Speaking at the ceremony Mahmoud Al-Aloul, a Fatah Central Committee Member, congratulated Al-Nanish and the other prisoners on their release.
[28] Stephen Flatow, writing in the Algemeiner Journal in 2014, described rocks thrown by Palestinian youth as "terrorist weapons", pointing out that 11 people have been killed by Palestinians throwing rocks at Israelis; he characterized stone-throwing by Palestinian youth acts of "attempted murder", pointing out that when a group of youths in Washington, D.C. threw rocks at passing cars, they were convicted of "assault with intent to murder", and "each sentenced to 40 years in prison".
[12] In her book, Conscience at War, psychology professor Ruth Linn relates a story told to her by an Israeli who chose to immigrate to Australia rather than to continue to serve in the army.