Around 60 people - Nabi Saleh residents, including many of the village's children, Palestinians from surrounding villages, as well as Israeli and international supporters - participated in the weekly demonstration against the Occupation and the creeping expansion of the adjacent Jewish-only settlement of Halamish.

Israeli soldiers lined up to block protesters from marching on the village's main street, but were unable to stop them. The demonstrators broke through the lines, and when they could advance no longer sat on the main road, defiant of the soldiers' pushing and shoving. Soldiers then attacked one of the Palestinian demonstrators, in an unprovoked attempt to arrest him. Other protesters managed to pull him away from between the soldiers' hands, who had beaten him unconscious in the process. When soldiers realized they had failed taking the Palestinian, they grabbed a Danish activist and dragged him away instead.

After much chanting, the march began to retreat, only to be followed by the contingent of soldiers it had left behind it. The deepening army incursion into the village attracted stone-throwing by the youth who attempted to stop the soldiers' advance. At one point, soldiers stationed in the village's center were warded off by the village's young children, throwing back stun grenades as they left the area.

The military incursion into the village had lasted for several hours, until the four military jeeps had eventually left.