RAMALLAH (PIC)– Some anti-wall marches of the West Bank on Friday afternoon were dedicated to advocating the issue of slain peace activist Rachel Corrie who was crushed brutally to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in March 2003.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) as usual attacked these marches and others held in memory of Palestinian caricaturist Naji Al-Ali.
Many protestors sustained injuries from the fairing of tear gas grenades and rubber bullets. The IOF also used wastewater to disperse them.
In Bil’in village west of Ramallah city protestors were attacked intensively as they reached near the segregation wall in Abu Leimun area.
The IOF also suppressed the peaceful march held in Kafr Qaddum village near Nablus and kidnapped a 16-year-old boy named Firas Jum’ah a protestor from the village.
The marches against the wall and settlement held in Masarah and Nabi Saleh villages was also quelled by the troops and prevented from reaching the annexed Palestinian lands.
Several injuries were reported in these two marches especially two young men and one girl from Nabi Saleh village who suffered different wounds when Israeli soldiers showered their march with a barrage of bullets and tear gas grenades.
