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Violent Repression Of Anti-Wall Demonstration In Kharbatha Bani Harith

ism media office | 22.03.2004 01:17 | Anti-militarism | World

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
Sun March 21, 2004
For Immediate Release



VIOLENT REPRESSION OF THE ANTI-WALL DEMONSTRATION
Several people injured and arrested during the protest in Kharbatha
Bani Harith


[Kharbatha Bani Harith, RAMALLAH] Today, Sunday, March 21, 2004,
during a demonstration against the Wall in Kharbatha Bani Harith,
37 people are reportedly injured due to use of excessive violence
by Israeli army to disperse the crowd. Around 30 of them were
reportedly shot with rubber-coated steel bullets in the upper part
of the body, 5 of whom injured in the head including a 14 year old
Palestinian boy and an elderly Palestinian women. Another one of
them, Etai Lewinsky, an 20 year old Israeli citizen, was shot
between the eyes by a rubber-coated metal bullet and was taken to
hospital.

This morning, the residents of Kharbatha Bani Harith attempted to
stop the bulldozers from destroying more farmlands in their village.
They were joined by international and Israeli activists in their
protest. The Israeli army allowed the crowd 15 minutes to leave
before charging them violently, using tear gas, batons, sound
grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets shot directly at the
nonviolent protestors. This is the second violent repression of an
anti-wall protest in this village.

The villagers in the area of Budrus stand to lose thousands of
dunums of land, including olive groves. The planned route of the
wall will eventually turn the cluster of villages around Budrus into
a prison for its residents, cutting them off from Ramallah, where
most education and health facilities are located.

For more information, please contact:

Anwar Nazne (local contact): +972.52.877.230
Abu Ahmed (local contact): +972.67.924.952
Erik (ISM volunteer): +972. 66.556.749
ISM Media Office: +972.22.77.46.02


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  1. more news from stop the wall — stw
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