RAMALLAH, September 11, 2009 (WAFA)- Two citizens were injured and dozens were suffocated in Bil’in and Ni,lin due to tear gas shot at them by the Israeli soldiers, during their participation in the weekly demonstrations against the construction of the Apartheid Wall and settlements.
The two: Ashrsf Abu Rahmah and Khamees Abu Rahmah. As Bil’in citizens participated in a demonstration after Friday prayers, with a group of international peace activists and Israeli peace movements members.
The demonstrators raised up the Palestinian flags and banners calling for an end the Israeli army attacks, night raids and arrests, calling for the release of all detainees, and to stop building settlement and the seizure of Palestinian lands.
The demonstrators walked in the village streets’, chanting national slogans condemning the occupation polices, and when the demonstrators approached the gate of the Wall which they tried to open, the Israeli soldiers sprayed them with gas and sound bombs, causing tow injured and dozens of suffocation cases.
On the other hand, said an International Solidarity Movemnt (ISM) press release, a delegation from the German and Swedish diplomats visited the village yesterday as they have listened to an explanation from the Popular Committee in Bil'in on the experience of their resistance to the Wall. The diplomats toured to the wall thus they saw the negative effects caused by the Wall on the villagers. Although they have seen the yards around the Wall full of empty sound and gas bombs, which were used to suppress the demonstrators.
At another level, the popular Committee condemned the Israeli government decisions relating to increasing housing units in settlements and land seizure. As the popular committee called the international organizations to move quickly to stop such schemes, and called for boycotting punishment procedures against Israel.
In Ni’lin, dozens were suffocated due to tear gas shot by Israeli soldiers in the demonstration agaist the Wall and settlements.
Hundreds of citizens, internationals and Israeli pacifist stepped towards the Wall, then the Israeli soldiers opened fire against the demonstration.
The protesters chanted, while the soldiers opened fire with tear gas and water jets. It is one of the longest-running and best organized protest operations in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and it has turned this once anonymous farming village into a symbol of Palestinian civil disobedience, a model that many supporters of the Palestinian cause would like to see spread and prosper
