Three protesters injured at Bil’in weekly Protest

27/09/2008

by Abdellah Abu Rahamah
Coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in

On the 26th September 2008 after the Friday prayer, the residents of Bil’in, joined by international and Israeli solidarity activists, held a demonstration against the apartheid wall and the confiscation of their land. The protesters carried banners for the 8th anniversary of the Al-Aqsa intifada. They called for a third Intifada to remove the wall, stop settlement construction, remove checkpoints, open roads and stop the confiscation of Palestinian land. They also called to break Israeli racism and for the freedom of Palestinian detainees.

The protesters marched towards the wall carrying Palestinian flags and banners calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and for Palestinian national unity.

When protesters tried to get close to the gate to reach the village’s confiscated land behind it, the Israeli army fired tear-gas cannisters and sound grenades causing many to need treatment for tear-gas inhalation. Two Palestinian protester and a Scottish solidarity activist were shot with tear-gas cannisters and were taken to Sheikh Zaide hospital in Ramallah.

Three civilians wounded by Israeli troops in Bil’in

Source : IMEMC

by George Rishmawi

Three protestors were wounded Friday noon including a Scottish human rights activist with rubber-coated steel bullets fired by the Israeli military forces in the village of Bil’in near Ramallah.

The wounded were identified as Yassin Mohammad, Tamer e-Khatib and Oliver, their wounds were described as light.

Troops fire rubber-coated steel bullets and C.S gas at civilians who gathered after the Friday prayer to protest against the land confiscation and settlement and wall building on the village’s land.

Protestors carried Palestinian flags and banners calling for more active nonviolent resistance to the wall and settlements and the opening of the roads closed by the Israeli military.

Among the protestors was an Israeli young man who refused to enlist with the Israeli army. Yuval Oron, 19 a resident of the mixed Arab-Jewish village Neveh Shalom, “Peace Oasis” near Tel Aviv, said that he will not join military service in the Israeli army, although he knows that he will end up in jail for doing so.

He added that some of his friends are already in jail for refusing the service. Oron, who will be called to for the military service next month, said the reason for refusing the service, is that he would not serve an army that forcefully occupies other people’s land.