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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Shaving the head trends as the newest Palestinian resistance method</h1>October 18, 2022</div>
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<p>Jerusalem /PNN/ By Khaled Tayeh</p>
<img src="cid:ii_l9ekwq1s0" alt="image.png" width="435" height="218"><br><p>Palestinians finding new, creative methods of resisting the Israeli
occupation is not new. The newest method, though, is shaving the head
and going bald. It is the latest act of resistance as it shows support
and solidarity with a fellow Palestinian fighter pursued by all of
Israel’s manpower.</p>
<p>According Wafa news agynce few days ago, Palestinian guys in the
refugee camp of Shufat shaved their heads as a form of showing support
to a fellow camp Palestinian identified as Oday al-Tamimi, who the
Israeli authorities accuse of carrying out a shooting attack at an army
checkpoint at the camp’s entrance about two weeks ago, killing one
soldier and seriously injuring another.</p>
<p>Seemingly, the “wanted” Palestinian is bald, and in order to confuse
the Israeli forces looking for him, youths from the camp shaved their
heads in an attempt to look like the wanted youth so the soldiers would
not be able to recognize him.</p>
<p>This is not the first time Palestinians come up with creative ways to
resist the occupation by confusing its forces. More than 80 years ago,
Palestinians wore the kuffiyeh and agal (the traditional head cover for
men) on their heads to protect the fighters against the English soldiers
during the British Mandate on Palestine.</p>
<p>Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Palestinian resistance fighters sneaked
into the occupied territories walking backward in order to confuse the
Israeli soldiers and make them think they were leaving Palestine, not
entering it.</p>
<p>Shufat camp’s barbershops started offering free haircuts to whoever
wanted to shave their heads to show support for Tamimi, something that
later turned into a trendy campaign all across the occupied Palestinian
territories and even abroad.</p>
<p>Guys from Jerusalem-area towns and villages joined in the trend and
posted videos and pictures of themselves shaving their heads in
solidarity with the Palestinians in Shufat.</p>
<p>Additionally, Palestinians in several areas in the occupied West Bank
and even the Gaza Strip, all joined forces and shaved their heads,
proving that Palestinians can be united and come up with innovatively
original ways to show support to each other and still resist the
occupation in whatever way they can.</p>
<p>This resistance method was even echoed abroad, in Pakistan, where a
man tweeted that his son, Salah Eddin, has shaved his head in solidarity
with the Palestinians.</p>
<p>The Israelis, on the other hand, were not happy with this resistance
trend. Reports said more than 15 Palestinian workers, who happened to be
from Shufat refugee camp, were fired from their work as sanitation
workers in a town in Israel for shaving their heads bald.</p>
<p>Two weeks ago, life was disrupted in the camp and the town of Anata
after the Israeli occupation authorities, in a revenge act for the
killing of the soldier at the checkpoint, decided to collectively punish
more than 130,000 Palestinian residents of these two neighborhoods by
locking them in.</p>
<p>The decision backfired as the camp’s residents declared civil
disobedience and started daily protests at the checkpoint demanding an
end to the punishment, which forced the Israeli army to quickly lift it
even before apprehending the alleged attacker.</p>
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