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Spent live ammunition shells found after weekly Bil’in protest
08/02/2008
Source : ISM
On the 8th of February, around 70 Palestinian, Israeli, and international gathered in the village of Bil’in to demonstrate against the Annexation Wall. The illegal wall steals more than 60% of Bil’in village land. People marched peacefully to the gate in the wall, able to see their stolen land but not access it. On the 4th of September there was a Supreme Court decision which said the wall must move back, and give back half the land it took. This has yet to be implemented, and people are left at the gate to hold signs and chant.
Activists opened the two gates before soldiers, unprovoked, began to shoot rubber-coated steel bullets nearby. Demonstrators were forced back down the hill, where they continued their demonstration. The army continued to fire volley after volley of rubber bullets. Later, as the demonstration wore on, the army came inside the wall and position themselves on the hill, then the tear gas began.
It was not long after that they began to chase us up the hill, still firing rubber-coated steel bullets dangerously close. After sometime people moved back to the village, but one person found nearby where the soldiers were, after they had gone back up the hill, spent live ammunition shells. So they were not only firing rubber-coated steel bullets at the demonstration, but sometimes live.
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