Bil'in
About 35 Israelis and 25 internationals joined Bilin's weekly demonstration against the land grab, arrests of local youth and the occupation in general. The demonstration was led by a large delegation of men and women from the Palestinian People's Party from all over the West Bank. The protesters marched to the wall, but were on their way there by a line of Israeli soldiers in full crowd control gear. The demonstrators stood peacefully, chanting and singing at contact range with the soldiers. When the local shabab wanted to force the soldiers back so they can reach the fence and their land, the People's Party organizers strongly objected, and made the shabab wait. It was only when the soldiers started shoving demonstrators that stones and gas/concussion grenades began to be exchanged, and the protesters had to retreat through the mists of gas. The shabab continued their efforts for a while, and the army's weapons caused a few bush fires between the olive trees already scorched from previous demos.
Ni'ilin and Nabi Saleh
Wad Rahhal
About 40 Palestinains, internationals and Israelis, gathered in Wad Rahhal for a work day in the fields. After a few hours work, when the participants have already begun to make their way back to the village, armed settlers arrived at the scene accompanied by two military jeeps and made false allegations that stones have been thrown in the direction of one of the settlements. After it was explained to the soldiers that no stones have been thrown and that the group was merely working in the field, cutting branches and clearing the ground from rocks, the settlers changed their allegations and claimed that the rocks that have been moved are blocking a nearby motor pathway. Eventually, after pointing out that the pathway has been blocked from both sides long before works in the field began, both the settlers and soldiers left without making any arrests.
