On Friday, 22 February 2013, demonstrators at a-Nabi Saleh in the Ramallah district held another in the series of weekly protests conducted since December 2009 against the occupation and to protest the settlers' takeover of the al-Qus spring near the village. During the demonstration, a border policeman pepper-sprayed Bilal a-Tamimi in the face; Tamimi, a resident of the village and a volunteer with B'Tselem's Camera Project, was filming the demonstration as he has done regularly in recent years. Over the last three years, B'Tselem has documented 18 incidents in which demonstrators and photographers described the unjustified police use of pepper-spray against unarmed, non-violent civilians, in violation of official police regulations.