Peaceful anti-wall protest in Ni'lin attacked again by IDF

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Three protesters were injured and dozens suffered tear gas suffocation when Israeli occupation forces attacked the weekly anti-wall march held at noon Friday in Ni’lin village, west of Ramallah.

Despite the Israeli attempts to quell the march, the Ni’lin protestors managed to reach the Palestinian lands in the village where the Israeli occupation authority is expanding its apartheid wall.

Palestinian citizens and foreign activists also stationed on rooftops and at doors of homes and blocked the arrival of IOF troops to the village.

The IOF troops also used armed force against dozens of Palestinians and foreign activists participating in an anti-wall protest march held Friday in Al-Ma'sara village near Bethlehem.

IOF troops established barriers and barbed wire to bar the march from approaching the segregation wall.

Al-Ma’sara protesters demanded during the march the immediate release of two members of the popular committee against the wall who were arrested weeks ago by IOF troops while participating in a non-violent protest against the apartheid wall and settlement expansion in the village.

Meanwhile, the participants in the weekly anti-wall protest held in the village of Bil’in, west of Ramallah, threw at IOF troops balloons filled with animal dung in retaliation to Israeli troops’ persistent use of poisonous gas and rubber-coated bullets against their peaceful march.

IOF soldiers also fired upon the Bil’in march injuring four protesters including photographers working for the Associated Press and the Agence France Presse.

In another development, Hebrew Radio reported Thursday that IOF troops kidnapped 260 Palestinians in the Hasharon area in recent days on the pretext that they were living and working inside the Palestinians lands occupied in 1948 without permits.

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