RAMALLAH (PIC)– Palestinian sources reported that an American citizen was critically wounded during the weekly anti-apartheid wall protest held Friday afternoon in the Na’lin village west of Ramallah when IOF troops as usual assaulted Palestinian citizens and foreign activists participating in the march.
The sources added that activist Tristan Anderson was directly hit in the head with a tear gas grenade fired by IOF troops and consequently taken to an Israeli hospital inside the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948.
IOF troops also fired rubber bullets wrapped in a hard rubber shell and a number of tear gas and sound canisters at the protesting crowd leading to the injury of five participants and suffocation cases among many others
In the Bil’in village IOF troops quelled another weekly peaceful anti-wall march organized by the popular committee against the wall and settlement in protest at Israel’s decision to annex 142 dunums of Palestinian lands in Bil’in and the villages of Deir Qedis and Kharbata Bani Harith in favor of the expansion of the apartheid wall.
A’hed Al-Khawaja the coordinator of the anti-wall committee said that the IOF troops used rubber-wrapped metal bullets in addition to tear gas and sound grenades to subdue the crowd causing four injuries and a number of suffocation cases among the protesters.
Four Palestinian citizens were badly injured Friday in the Ma’sarah village south of Bethlehem when IOF assaulted them with rifle butts during a non-violent anti-wall protest in which hundreds of Palestinians and foreign activists participated.
