On 15 April 2002, Samer was arrested by the Israeli army in Ramallah as part of Operation Defensive Shield during the Second Intifada.
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In 2005, as a reaction to the Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, a group called "Mateh Chomat Magen" (the name referring to Operation Defensive Shield) published a letter with 10,000 signatures of soldiers who signed a petition saying that they would refuse to uproot and remove Israeli settlements.