Hardly a day or two goes by without witnessing confrontations erupting between Palestinian youth and the Zionist occupation forces, without witnessing the outbreak of confrontations among the townspeople from time to time.

Many factors play a role in fueling the fire of confrontation in Issawiya. The Hebrew University and the French Hill settlement are usurping thousands of dunums of land in the town, and the occupation is targeting its agricultural lands with the Judaizing “national park” plan.

The matter does not stop there, as Al-Issawiya presented many martyrs, which gave it more momentum in the struggle, including: Fadi Al-Issawi, brother of the prisoner Samer Al-Issawi, who was martyred during solidarity confrontations with Hebron, following the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in 1994, and Nour Al-Din Ubaid, who He rose to fame while resisting an attempt to demolish his house in 1999, and the martyr Muhammad Samir Obaid, who was martyred while confronting the occupation forces’ storming of the town in 2019.

Today, Al-Issawiya’s struggle does not stop only at the direct confrontation with the occupation. Al-Issawiya and its sister, Jabal Al-Mukaber, are the only ones in Jerusalem in which the popular situation prevents the occupation and its institutions from imposing the Israeli curriculum on its schools.