RAMALLAH (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday afternoon wounded three protesters and dozens more suffered tear gas suffocation during the weekly anti-wall protest in Bil’in village west of Ramallah city.
International and Palestinian activists participated in the march against the segregation wall which cuts villagers off from more than 60 percent of their land. The international court of justice criminalized the building of the wall in 2004.
Protesters marched through village streets calling for Palestinian unity and for political prisoners to be released and chanted slogans condemning Israeli Judaization and settlement activities in occupied Jerusalem.
Then they headed to the wall where IOF troops were waiting for them. Soldiers fired tear gas grenades and rubber bullets at them preventing them from reaching the villagers’ lands behind the wall.
Abdelbaset Sharteeh 18 and Ala Abu Sa’ea 35 were both injured by tear gas grenades in their hands and a soldier hit Fawwaz Maghari 35 in the head with a baton.
The villagers of Ni’lin near Ramallah also organized their weekly nonviolent anti-wall protest Friday at noon.
This week’s march was dedicated to Yousuf Abu Amira who was killed by Israeli troops in 2008 during an anti-wall protest in the village.
Following Friday prayer protesters carried Abu Amira’s photos and waved Palestinian flags as they marched towards Palestinian lands that were confiscated by Israel in order to expand its apartheid wall.
Israeli troops there fired a number of tear gas canisters at them causing breathing problems for dozens of them.
Dozens of Palestinians and multinational activists participated in similar protest against the wall and settlement expansion in the villages of Ma’sarah and Artas on the same day.
In separate incidents three savage Israeli settlers physically assaulted two pro-Palestinian activists from Denmark and Canada in Al-Bouira area east of Al-Khalil city.
Local sources said three masked settlers stopped the car the two activists were traveling in before beating them severely and stealing their documents and photo cameras adding that the victims sustained different bruises all over their bodies.
On Thursday night a Palestinian woman called Suzan Sultan also sustained injuries in different areas of her body especially in her head and hands and fell unconscious after she was attacked by a group of settlers in Bouira area.
A source related to the woman said that the security men of Kharsina settlement intercepted the car she was aboard and let a group of settlers beat her.
