So then, why does the IDF <snip> go to quell a demonstration that does not matter?
Well, because in Nabi Saleh, as an example, the protest is violent and marches toward Halamish. The IDF stands on the road preventing the violent protesters from reaching the Jewish town, thus protecting both the Jews there and the Palestinians. So they are NOT sitting at home. Nor are they protesting in their village.
For first time, weekly Nabi Saleh protest reaches destination: its own spring
Dozens of residents of Nabi Saleh, joined by supporters from Israel and abroad, marked a historic victory on Friday when they succeeded in reaching the village’s confiscated spring.
Nabi Saleh is a small village of approximately 550 people, twenty kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the West Bank. Halamish (also known as Neveh Tzuf ) was established on lands belonging to the villages of Nabi Saleh and Deir Nidham in 1976.
For first time, weekly Nabi Saleh protest reaches destination: its own spring | +972 Magazine
They are protesting in their own village.
That's a lie,
they basically have to reach 2 big roads to an area adjacent to the slope of a mountain where Halamish and other Arab villages are located. It's a different area geographically and visually, a different neighborhood.
That claim is based on a say so. Since the Tamimis first established their settlement of 5 houses there in 1877, their neighborhood always stayed in the same location close to the green to the north-east from the land they claim, their Nabi Saleh settlement never reached the spring and it's apparent for anyone who looks at a satellite image -
they're reaching out 2 km walking with their kids from their village, to a central road where they can create confrontation with police.
These are all coordinated actions, and recently we see they're being done at intervals of 10-15 min within the beginning of Hamas confrontations.