Amnah Tabouk

Amnah was born 1971 in the old city of Nablus. Her father owned a bakery and her mother worked at home as a tailor. She grew up under Israeli Occupation, witnessing the arrests of her family members and relatives and harassment by Israeli soldiers on a regular basis. With the outbreak of the First Intifada in 1987 Amnah joined her classmates and friends in protests against the Israeli Occupation, and was subsequently arrested and sentenced to four years in military jail at the age of 17. She continued Tawjihi (12th grade) in jail, where she also became more active in the Fatah movement inside Israeli prisons. During her time in jail she met with Fatmah Abu Awad, one of the local leaders of the Intifada and of Fatah movement, and also met Fatmah’s son Yousef, who she got engaged to while they were both in jail. Amnah was released in 1992, and then got married to Yousef and moved to Beit Ummar. She had two kids, Yazan and Bayan. In late 2000, Amnah's husband Yousef was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier at the entrance of Beit Ummar; he was one of the first casualties of the Second Intifada. Amnah was 29 years old with two kids when Yousef was killed.

In 2004 Amnah, along with the family of her husband, established the Bereaved Families Circle Forum. In 2016, she joined Roots’ activities. Through all of these years Amnah didn't invest her emotions in seeking revenge from the other side but in meeting them as bereaved people, as peace partners, as Israelis, as human beings.