- 22 mrt 2011
Two Palestinians shot amid growing settler attacks
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Two Palestinians were shot Monday in Al-Khalil province as Jewish settlers escalated attacks against the Palestinians across the occupied territories of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
A Jewish settler opened fire at Palestinians attending a funeral in the city of Beit Ummar north of Al-Khalil, seriously injuring a 66-year-old man in the neck and another in the leg, medics said.
The Israeli army arrived after the incident and closed the city's main entrance, assaulted those gathered and disrupted the funeral's progression.
In separate incidents, four Palestinians were arrested for saying "Allah is greater" after around 40 Israeli settlers were permitted to enter the Aqsa Mosque.
Israeli police arrested four men who shouted "Allah is greatest" in response to the provocation.
Meanwhile, settlers from Burkan near the West Bank city of Salfit have attacked Palestinian vehicles near the town of Bruqin assaulting passengers and blocking movement around the town.
The assailants blocked the town's northern entrance and began hurling stones and glass bottles at Palestinian cars passing along the main street near the industrial settlement of Burkan.
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Maria 23 mrt 2011
Gaza: 8-year-old injured in IDF fire
An 8-year-old Palestinian boy injured from IDF fire in Gaza Tuesday was transferred to the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot for medical care.
Clashes near Jerusalem: 2 injured, 5 detained
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Two Palestinians were injured and five others detained during clashes that erupted between Israeli forces and residents of the Jerusalem-district village of Qatanna Wednesday afternoon.
Residents said the clash started when an Israeli patrol entered the village, adjacent to the separation wall northwest of the Old City of Jerusalem.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers were not involved in the incident, and an Israeli border police spokesperson did not immediately respond to phone calls seeking comment.
Jerusalem municipality spokesman Abu Silman identified those injured as Mujahed Samer Al-Faqih, 16, and Yehya Abdel Salam Shamasneh, who were both hit with rubber-coated bullets. One witness said live fire was also used.
Abu Silman said five others were detained, all between 15-16 years old. They were identified as Huthiefa Ali Shamasneh, Hamza Ahmad Faqih, Mohammad Saleh Shamasneh, Ismail Ayman Ismail Shmasneh and Mahmoud Omer Al-Faqih.
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Maria 25 mrt 2011
Israel breaks up anti-wall protests across West Bank
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces used tear-gas to break up anti-wall protests in villages across the West Bank on Friday.
Undeterred by the rain, demonstrators focused on Palestinian national unity as well as an end to Israel's occupation.
Hunger strikers from the March 15 youth movement left Ramallah's Manara square to join the protest in Bil'in, where this week's slogan was "End the division and the occupation."
Villagers, local and international activists marched to the site of the wall, carrying Palestinian flags and posters of Jawaher Abu Rahma and her brother Bassem. Jawaher died on January 1 after inhaling massive amounts of tear gas at a demonstration in Bil'in the day before. Bassem was killed at a protest in the village in 2009, when an Israeli soldier fired a high-velocity tear gas grenade into his chest.
Israeli forces were waiting at the wall, and fired tear gas grenades, rubber-coated steel bullets, sound bombs and a chemical liquid at the demonstrators.
According to an Israeli military statement, soldiers used "riot dispersal means" to end the protest after demonstrators threw rocks at the forces.
Protest organizers said four villagers were injured. Ahmad Abu Rahma, 16, was shot in his right leg with a bullet that disperses hundreds of metal balls when fired. Ibrahim Burnat, 28, and Samer Ataya, 30, were both shot in the leg with tear gas grenades. Mohamad Burnat, 22, was hit in his face with a tear gas canister.
They were all treated by medics at the scene, organizers said.
Nil'in demands national unity
Meanwhile in Nil'in, also in the Ramallah district, protesters waved Palestinian flags and demanded national unity between the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
Israeli forces used tear gas to break up the weekly rally. Protesters said troops entered the village and shot tear gas towards homes.
Organizers said around 100 activists joined the protest, but the Israeli army said around 30 participated in the demonstration.
Journalist, foreign nationals detained in An-Nabi Saleh
At a simultaneous protest in An-Nabi Saleh, three Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces used tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets to shut down the anti-wall rally.
Forces detained Udai At-Tamimi and photojournalist Bilal At-Tamimi in addition to 12 foreign nationals, protest organizers said, adding that the Israeli military imposed a security cordon around the village and targeted ambulances.
Demonstrators chanted "The people want to end the division" and said Palestinians would always resist Israel's illegal military occupation of their land.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said nine demonstrators were detained for throwing stones at soldiers.
Israel cracks down on anti-wall rallies
Protests are held every Friday around the West Bank in villages whose land has been confiscated by Israel's separation wall.
Israel says the wall is necessary to prevent attacks, but only 15 percent of the route of the wall is on the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank.
The other 85 percent of the wall's route runs inside the West Bank and confiscates Palestinian land, on which illegal Israeli settlements are built, the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs says.
The wall has confiscated some 60 percent of Bil'in villagers' land, on which Israel has constructed Jewish-only settlements.
Villages that participate in the non-violent popular struggle against the wall are constantly targeted by Israel's military, and residents are subject to night raids and detentions.
On Thursday, Israeli forces detained the leader of An-Nabi Saleh's popular committee, hours before he was scheduled to receive a delegation from the French consulate.
Bassem Tamimi was taken by Israeli forces during a raid on his home. His wife Nariman Tamimi said soldiers aggressively tried to stop her filming the arrest, and she passed the camera to her 10-year-old daughter.
Soldiers grabbed the camera and threw it outside in the mud, she said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed detaining the protest organizer, but could not say why he was detained.
The local committee said Israeli forces have detained 18 of Nabi Saleh's residents since February, half of whom were minors. The youngest was 11-year-old Karim Tamimi.
Since An-Nabi Saleh began non-violent protests in December 2009, Israel's army has detained 64 of the village's 500 residents, the committee says.
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Maria 27 mrt 2011
Israeli troops attack Palestinian woman in Beith Ummar village
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli soldiers severely beat a Palestinian woman called Najwa Sabarneh as she was trying to prevent them from kidnapping her son yesterday during the weekly anti-wall march held in Beit Ummar village, northwest of Al-Khalil city.
The troops also attacked and arrested a number of foreign activists during the march.
The march started from inside the village with the participation of foreign peace activist towards the segregation wall, before it was attacked with tear gas grenades on the main road leading to the village.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) announced the main entrance to the village a closed military zone following fierce clashes with the protesters.
In another incident, a number of Palestinian workmen revealed that Israeli intelligence officers at Qalqiliya checkpoint threatened them to withdraw their work permits if they refused to work as informers with them.
Human rights organizations had reported that the Israeli intelligence extorts and pressures Palestinian workmen in order to make them deal with it in exchange for renewing their work permits and allowing them to work inside the 1948 occupied lands.
For its part, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said Saturday morning that a military unit of Kfir brigade kidnapped one Palestinian man from his home in Al-Khalil city at the pretext he was wanted.
He was taken to the Israeli intelligence apparatus for interrogation, according to the newspaper.
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Beit Ummar to be fenced in from south
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- For a third day in a row, Israeli forces appeared in large numbers around the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar, installing road gates and fence posts in a move residents fear will close them in and stifle the population center.
Local activist Mohammad Ayyad Awad told Ma'an on Sunday that the installation of the infrastructure was impeding freedom of movement in the town, saying residents with cars were not permitted entry and exit for most of the day.
Awwad said the installations were part of Israeli military preparations to fence the town in, and prevent residents from accessing the surrounding areas.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the work, saying in a statement, that "In response to incidents of rock throwing at Israeli cars driving from the village of Beit Omer [sic], a number of temporary blocks were placed at certain entrances to the village (though not including the main entrance) in an attempt to stymie such actions."
According to his observations, Awwad said the fence would stretch 150 meters along the town's southern flank, closing it off from the Bethlehem-Hebron road, and would have a height of at least seven meters.
Metal gates, he added, were being installed on the street leading from the town to the cemetery.
Last week a settler opened fire on Beit Ummar residents at a funeral procession as they walked to the cemetery, injuring two, one critically.
Reports in the Israeli press said the mourner had thrown rocks at the settler car, before the driver parked, disembarked and fired on the gathered mourners.
The incident followed growing tension between settlers in the area, and Beit Ummar residents, who until March held regular Saturday protests against ongoing land confiscations by the nearby settlement of Karmi Zur.
Residents feared settler violence when rightist-groups announced that a "price tag" policy would be carried out against Palestinians first for the Israeli government decision to demolish an illegal settler outpost in the northern West Bank, and a grisly murder of five settlers in one family, which Israeli political leaders said was perpetrated by Palestinian militants, though police have not yet identified a suspect.
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Maria 28 mrt 2011
Provocative search of Palestinian young women at IOF roadblock
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) manning a roadblock in central West Bank ordered all young women boarding a bus to step out of it and subjected them to provocative search on Monday morning.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC that the young women were planning to reach Ramallah when they were ordered out of the bus and searched in what they described as an attempt to abuse them.
In a separate incident, Jewish settlers threw stones at Palestinian cars passing along the Husan-Nahalin road west of Bethlehem. Some of those cars' windows and windshields were smashed in the act.
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Maria 29 mrt 2011
Medics suspect teen beaten by soldiers
QALQILIYA (Ma'an) -- Palestinian medical crews were summoned to a checkpoint in the northern West Bank Monday night and told that a Palestinian youth had been involved in a car accident there.
When crews arrived, however, they said there was no sign of a car accident, and 16-year-old Omar Omran Hussein from the nearby village of Azzun was suffering from severe bruising. He was being treated by an Israeli medical team.
Palestinian officials said Red Crescent medics were dismissed with no explanation as to how the teenager sustained his injuries, and said they believed he had been badly beaten.
A report in the Israeli press Tuesday morning said a teenager was detained throwing stones on the main road between Qalqiliya and Nablus.
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Israeli security forces quell Silwan protest demo
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used machineguns and teargas to disperse a Palestinian demonstration in occupied Jerusalem's Silwan town against confiscation of their land and demolition of their homes.
The young men participating in the demo threw stones at the IOF troops who stormed the town, south of the Aqsa Mosque, in big numbers on Monday evening.
The IOF command claimed that two Molotov cocktails were hurled at two of the army vehicles but none was hurt in the incident. It added that the soldiers fired at the demonstrators to disperse them.
The IOF soldiers detained three Jerusalemites, including a child, at dawn Sunday for taking part in Silwan protest marches. Eyewitnesses said that a firebomb was tossed at an army vehicle and another at a settler's car in Silwan on Sunday night, and the IOF soldiers retaliated by firing gas and sonic bombs.
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Maria 2 apr 2011
Teenager detained while pasturing sheep in Jordan Valley
TUBAS (Ma'an) Israeli forces detained on Saturday a teenager from Tubas in the northern West Bank while he was pasturing his sheep near an Israeli settlement in the northern Jordan Valley.
Palestinian security sources said 19-year-old Ghazi Bisharat was pasturing his sheep near the Palestinian village Al-Hadidiya in the northern Jordan Valley before Israeli forces detained him and took the sheep to the nearby settlement.
Locals say fields around the Jordan Valley's settlements are excellent pastures, but Israeli forces do not allow shepherds to access them and sometimes fire into the air to scare them away.
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Israeli forces shut down anti-wall rally
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Protesters commemorated Land Day during a weekly demonstration against Israel's separation wall in the West Bank village of Bil'in.
Land Day marks the anniversary of a 1976 shooting in which Israeli troops killed six people during protests against land confiscations.
Israel's separation wall cuts through Bil'in, confiscating 60 percent of the village's land, on which Israel has built Jewish-only housing. In 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that the route of the wall was illegal.
Israeli soldiers routinely use force to shut down anti-wall protests in Bil'in, and have killed two protesters from the village since 2009.
At Friday's protest, soldiers sprayed chemical water over the demonstrators, and fired tear gas canisters, sound grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets, organizers said.
An army spokesman said forces used "riot dispersal means" against demonstrators who threw stones.
Protesters said troops began firing before they reached the barrier, and then stormed a gate in the wall.
Palestinian ambulances treated injured demonstrators at the scene.
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Maria 3 apr 2011
Palestinian injured, three arrested during march in Nabi Saleh
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- A Palestinian man was injured and three others including children were arrested after Israeli soldiers attacked a festival and march marking Land Day in the village of Nabi Saleh north west of Ramallah.
A young man was hit in the back by a tear gas canister fired by the Israeli soldiers as they dispersed the march by force.
The soldiers arrested Adham Falteh, 20, Tamir Farah al-Tamimi, 17, and Mahmoud Wajeeh al-Tamimi, 15, and took them to an unidentified destination after severely battering them.
The Popular Resistance Movement staged the festivities to mark Earth Day, drawing in leaders and youth groups as well as dozens of foreign activists and locals.
After the festival, a popular march set out from Shuhada Square to land seized by the Israelis as Palestinians shouted demands for an end to the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian political split.
When marchers arrived at Tahrir mountain, soldiers rushed in and attacked. Prior to that, soldiers also attacked the festival and occupied the homes of Abdul-Elah and Wajeeh al-Tamimi and turned them into military posts.
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Maria 3 apr 2011
Video shows troops hitting, cursing leftists
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'You Arab son-of-a-bitch,' soldier calls protester as arrests in Beit Ommar erupt in violence.
A video clip obtained by Ynet Saturday shows IDF soldiers cursing, beating and degrading leftist protesters they were sent to arrest in Beit Ommar.
One of the soldiers was caught on tape whispering in a protester's ear, "You're so gay, you son-of-a-bitch." When the protester said he hadn't heard, the soldier yelled the phrase out.
The violent clashes erupted in the West Bank village, where a number of people rallied to protest an IDF checkpoint established to prevent stone-throwing by residents, when one of the protesters asked a soldier why he was being arrested.
The troops then began to use force with the uncooperative leftists, some of them minors, and one was documented hitting a protester in the neck and pushing him away.
The clashes reached a climax when one of the troops yelled out the degrading phrase, afterwards saying, "Get out of here you Arab son-of-a-bitch".
Finally 17 members of the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement were detained for questioning, and four were taken into custody.
The IDF said earlier Saturday, in response to claims made by the movement of a closure in the village, that no closure had been imposed on Beit Ommar but that "precautions are being taken in order to lessen stone-throwing at Israeli vehicles in the area". The village is located close to Hebron.
The army has not responded to the video clip so far.
Lihi Yafe, one of the activists taken into custody, claims she and her colleagues had not broken any laws. "The soldiers said it was a closed military zone but refused to produce the orders. They were very aggressive. One of our activists took a punch, his shirt was torn and he was pushed. Later a stun grenade was fired at us," she said.
Assaf Sharon, another member of the movement, said, "We object to the continuing closure on Beit Ommar, following fire by settlers from which two residents of the village were injured two weeks ago."
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Maria 9 apr 2011
IOF targets journalists, medics in fresh Silwan clashes
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) targeted journalists and paramedics during clashes that broke out with Palestinians after Friday prayers in the Al-Bustan community in the Jerusalem district of Silwan, the Wadi al-Halwa information center reported.
The IOF troops fired random and tear gas near Shahid Samer Sarhan Street prompting civilians to respond with rocks and Molotov cocktails.
At least one man was injured after being hit by a rubber bullet, while dozens suffered the effects of breathing tear gas.
In a separate incident, Israeli bulldozers demolished two water wells and a shed belonging to Palestinians in Al-Khader village south of Bethlehem, said village councilman Mahmoud Abdullah.
Israeli authorities claimed the structures were built without permits, but Israeli courts had made a precautionary decision that they should not be destroyed without warning.
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Maria 12 apr 2011
Elderly woman arrested as Awarta arrests continue
NABLUS, (PIC)-- An eighty-year-old woman was arrested as the Israel occupation force (IOF) causes havoc in Awarta village near Nablus in search for the killers of a family of five Jewish settlers in nearby Itamar.
A burst of arrests took place after the IOF enforced a curfew on the village for the second straight day. Israeli soldiers continue to conduct repeated searches on homes, and have been deliberately destroying furniture and other contents, said Awarta mayor Qais Awwad.
No house, alley, field or mosque has been spared from being raided and searched by the IOF after five settlers from the Itamar settlement were declared dead on March 15, said Awarta researcher Salahuddin Awwad.
Some villagers incurred heavy material losses after the army brought in vehicles and police dogs and raided most of the homes in the village, he added.
According to his figures, more than 500 Palestinians were arrested in the village this month, including nearly 200 women and several elderly and sick people as well as children.
He said that 71 of those arrestees have been kept in detention including a 15-year-old girl, who was arrested alongside her father and her mother.
An 80-year-old woman said military jeeps raided her home on April 6 and arrested her and her husband before they were taken to the Hawara military camp and directly accused of the Itamar murders. She said she was taken to a room to be photographed and fingerprinted and returned to the village after four hours in the cold.
She added that four of daughters, their husbands, her sons and their wives were arrested and returned in the morning after ten hours of detention and questioning.
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IOF arrests minor, settlers uproot olive trees in tense West Bank
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Tensions ran high in the West Bank on Monday as Israeli soldiers raided several areas in Al-Khalil province arresting seven youths, among them a 17-year-old minor.
Four of those detainees, including the minor, were arrested in the West Bank town of Beit Ummer north of Al-Khalil, while other Israeli forces arrested one Palestinian man southwest of the city in the Al-Fawar refugee camp after searching his home. Another man was taken near his home in the Dewaya district in the Old City after being brutalized.
In a separate incident, a group of Jewish settlers raided and then desecrated a Muslim cemetery in downtown Al-Khalil near Shuhada Street as they shouted racial slurs and claimed the graveyard was situated in a Jewish district of the city. Witnesses claimed they did so as Israel soldiers and police provided protection.
The Israel occupation force (IOF) raided several other cities across the West Bank later that night. Random home searches and street patrols were conducted in Azzoun west of Qalqilya after gun shots were fired at the car of a Jewish settler near the village without report of arrest.
The IOF also set up a checkpoint at the town's entrance and searched vehicles and used flares to search the moutain areas.
Soldiers in Jenin used police dogs the following morning to search ten apartments and surrounded a home in the city's Al-Basatein district, where they searched and questioned residents on the spot. They searched a nearby building as well, but no reason was given to why the search was being done.
Locals said IOF soldiers patroled the streets of Kafr Rai and Zabbouba outside of Nablus until early hours in the morning, but no arrests were made.
Meanwhile, Jewish settlers worked alongside IOF soldiers to uproot more than 50 olive trees in Dir Istya near the West Bank city of Salfit. Israeli authorities warned two months back that the trees were planted in a protected natural area where agriculture is prohibited.
Dozens of settlers stormed Monday the the village of Ein al-Beida in the northern Jordan Valley and began planting trees paving the way for confiscating the land and using it for the interests of the nearby Rotem settlement. Villagers possessed documents confirming that the affected area was their property.
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Violent confrontations in Silwan
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Violent confrontations took place in the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday between the Israeli occupation forces and locals.
Local sources said that the raiding troops fired gas canisters at random and insulted women, which provoked the inhabitants and led to the confrontations.
They noted that the Israeli soldiers assaulted four women with batons.
The sources said that a number of citizens were injured in the clashes, one of them seriously.
They noted that the soldiers beat up a young man who was standing in front of his shop until he fainted then arrested him while unconscious.
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Stolen Youth
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Maria 15 apr 2011
Palestinian boy hurt in West Bank clashes
NABLUS (Ma'an) -- An 11-year-old Palestinian boy was injured Thursday after Israeli forces fired tear-gas canisters to break up clashes in the northern West Bank, onlookers said.
Palestinian Authority official Ghassan Daghlus said the boy, Amid Asous, was treated in hospital for tear-gas inhalation.
Local residents clashed with settlers between the Palestinian village of Burin and the illegal settlement of Givat Ronen, throwing rocks at one another, news reports in Israeli media said.
An army spokeswoman told Ma'an that army and border guard forces arrived at the scene. She confirmed witness reports that Nablus' Huwwara checkpoint was closed during the incident.
The Palestinians claimed that settlers used live fire in the incident, the Israeli news site Ynet reported. It said the military had reported opening an investigation into the claims.
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Maria 15 apr 2011
Bilin Protester shot with live ammunition by sniper
The protester, a 35 year old resident of the village was hit in his shoulder and foot by 0.22 mm live bullets shot at him by a sniper during a protest in memory of Vittorio Arigoni, murdered tonight in gaza. Live ammunition was also used in the village of Nabi Saleh.
Around 300 people participated in the weekly demonstration against the Wall in the village of Bilin today. This week's march was dedicated to the memory of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni, and protested his murder in Gaza City last night. As the peaceful procession approached the gate in the Wall, soldiers immediately began shooting tear gas projectiles at the protesters.
While most protesters were forced to retreat due to the gas, smaller groups of protesters remained in the area of the Wall, where clashes ensued. At some point, Samir Bournat, a 35 year-old resident of the village and regular demonstrator, noted that a sniper was aiming his rifle at a group of protesters standing nearby the iron gate in the Wall. He approached in order to warn them, and was shot by the sniper twice. One bullet hit his right shoulder, while a second bullet penetrated his left foot.
A Red Crescent ambulance which rushed to the sport to evacuate Burnat was also attacked with tear-gas projectiles shot directly at him by the soldiers. Burnat was eventually taken to the hospital in Ramallah, where an x-ray was taken and proved beyond a shadow of doubt that he was indeed hit by 0.22" caliber live bullets.
A short while after Burnat's injury, a few Border Police officers crossed the Wall in the direction of the village and proceeded to clash with the youth using tear-gas and rubber-coated bullets. Moreover, One of the soldiers, even threw rocks at protesters.
Following a number of deaths and subsequent ballistic tests held at the Adam military shooting range in 2001, the Judge Advocate General ordered the classification of 0.22" bullet changed from "less-lethal" to "live ammunition", forbidden for use as crowd control means. Despite the classification change, the Israeli Army resumed using these bullets against demonstrators, causing at least two deaths 14 year-old Az ad-Din al-Jamal from Hebron on February 13th, 2009, and Aqel Srour from Ni'ilin on June 5th, 2009.
Two other protesters who were lightly injured were treated by a medical team on the ground and did not require being evacuated to the hospital.
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Maria 15 apr 2011
Five Injured, Three Arrested as Israeli Troops Crack Down on Anti-war Protests in West Bank
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Ramallah PNN Five civilians were injured and three arrested when Israeli troops attacked the weekly anti-war protests taking place in Bil'in, Nil'in, al-Nabi Salleh and al-Ma'ssara. Protestors today demanded the release of all political prisoners and carried pictures of the Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni, who was killed in Gaza on Friday.
In Bil'in, three civilians were wounded and many were treated for effects of tear gas during the weekly protests there. As has been the case for the past six years, international supporters joined the villagers after their daily prayers and marched up to the wall to protest. Upon arriving at the gate of the wall, troops stationed there fired tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets at protesters, leading to their injuries.
In the nearby village of Nalin, villagers along with their Israeli and international supporters, marched up to the wall where soldiers fired tear gas and sound bombs at them. Many were treated for effects of tear gas.
In al-Nabi Salleh, also in the central West Bank, no locals were injured by troops fire though one international was arrested as Israeli troops attacked the weekly anti-war and settlements protests there. International and Israeli supporters after the midday prayers and marched up to the land where Israeli plans to build a new settlement.
Troops there attacked with rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas. The troops chased people back to their homes and used chemical water against them. One villager was injured in the foot; another in the abdomen and one international activist was arrested. According to villagers the protests this week ended with clashes between the locals and Israeli troops.
Al-Ma'sara village in the southern West Bank, international and Israeli supporters joined the weekly protest against the wall and settlements there and Israeli troops stopped villagers from reaching the construction-side of the wall and used rifle butts and batons to push people back into the village. Israeli troops also arrested two French activists before the weekly protest had ended.
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