Biddu demonstration. Twelve Hurt
haaretz | 14.04.2004 19:15 | Anti-racism | World
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12 protesters hurt during protest against West Bank fence
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and AP
12 protesters hurt during protest against West Bank fence
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and AP
Last Update: 14/04/2004 20:50
12 protesters hurt during protest against West Bank fence
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and AP
Some 12 people were wounded Wednesday during during clashes between Border Police officers and protesters demonstrating against the West Bank separation fence under construction between the villages of Biddu and Beit Ajaza, west of Jerusalem.
Security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters.
Ten Palestinians were hurt, including a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was seriously injured after being hit in the head by a rubber-coated bullet.
Two Israeli protesters were also lightly hurt in their legs.
There are almost daily protests near this section of the fence, which is close to the Israeli town of Mevasseret Zion. Hundreds of Biddu residents, as well as five to ten members of the Anarchists Against the Wall groups and foreign left-wing protesters participate in the demonstrations.
On February 26, three Palestinians were killed and more than 50 injured during clashes with IDF troops near Biddu.
Also Wednesday, some 3,000 Palestinians, including 400 gunmen, attended a rally in Gaza City calling for the release of jailed Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti and the other Palestinian prisoners.
One Palestinian, identified as Ali Amar, 22, was killed when he was shot in the head by gunmen firing in the air, hospital officials said.
Barghouti, the highest ranking Palestinian captured by Israel, has been charged with being involved in attacks that killed 26 Israelis. The rally came in the run-up to the day Palestinians mark in solidarity with their prisoners in Israeli jails.
Earlier in the day, about 3,000 Palestinian laborers refused to cross into the Erez industrial zone along the boundary between Gaza and Israel for the second day.
Workers say they were protesting what they called humiliating security checks, especially body searches.
IDF troops also blew up a house in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday that belonged to the family of Sabih Abu Saud, a suicide bomber who blew himself up in a West Bank village last November as the army hunted him down.
12 protesters hurt during protest against West Bank fence
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and AP
Some 12 people were wounded Wednesday during during clashes between Border Police officers and protesters demonstrating against the West Bank separation fence under construction between the villages of Biddu and Beit Ajaza, west of Jerusalem.
Security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters.
Ten Palestinians were hurt, including a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was seriously injured after being hit in the head by a rubber-coated bullet.
Two Israeli protesters were also lightly hurt in their legs.
There are almost daily protests near this section of the fence, which is close to the Israeli town of Mevasseret Zion. Hundreds of Biddu residents, as well as five to ten members of the Anarchists Against the Wall groups and foreign left-wing protesters participate in the demonstrations.
On February 26, three Palestinians were killed and more than 50 injured during clashes with IDF troops near Biddu.
Also Wednesday, some 3,000 Palestinians, including 400 gunmen, attended a rally in Gaza City calling for the release of jailed Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti and the other Palestinian prisoners.
One Palestinian, identified as Ali Amar, 22, was killed when he was shot in the head by gunmen firing in the air, hospital officials said.
Barghouti, the highest ranking Palestinian captured by Israel, has been charged with being involved in attacks that killed 26 Israelis. The rally came in the run-up to the day Palestinians mark in solidarity with their prisoners in Israeli jails.
Earlier in the day, about 3,000 Palestinian laborers refused to cross into the Erez industrial zone along the boundary between Gaza and Israel for the second day.
Workers say they were protesting what they called humiliating security checks, especially body searches.
IDF troops also blew up a house in the West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday that belonged to the family of Sabih Abu Saud, a suicide bomber who blew himself up in a West Bank village last November as the army hunted him down.
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BEITUNIA demonstration 16th April
14.04.2004 19:21
For Immediate Release
ANTI-WALL PROTEST IN BEITUNIA
Residents of Beitunia remain steadfast in their struggle against the
Wall
[Beitunia, RAMALLAH] On Friday April 16, 2004, international activists
will join the residents of Beitunia in their protest against the
construction of the Apartheid wall throughout their lands. Protestors
will gather at 12:30PM in front of the Municipality Council of
Beitunia to head to the worksite and stop the bulldozers.
Residents of Beitunia stand to lose most of their farmland due to the
construction of the Apartheid wall. The Israeli army bulldozers will
destroy at least 1,560 dunums for the clearing of the path of the
wall. Residents of Beitunia estimated that the Israeli army bulldozers
uprooted over 400 fruit trees during the past three weeks of
construction. Over 10,000 dunums of the town farmland will fall on the
other side of the wall and be eventually inaccessible for the
residents.
Over the past three weeks, the Israeli army has consistently repressed
the demonstrations held in Beitunia with excessive violence, imposing
curfew on the town after the last demonstration on Friday, April 9,
2004 as a measure of collective punishment.
The Palestinian community of Beitunia is asking for your participation
in their struggle against the destruction of their land and livelihood.
DATE: Friday, April 16, 2004
TIME: 12:30PM
PLACE: Beitunia – Meet at Municipality Council
For more information, please contact:
Ghalib: +972.59.845.366
Atle: +972.66.485.243
ISM Media Office: +972.66.505.237
To see report and photos of previous action in Beitunia, please see:
www.palsolidarity.org/reports/writings/30Mar04_19_16_03RamallahPerlaandGabr=
iel.htm
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INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
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