The Bilin report - in a concise manner:
1. Gathering: 30 Israelis, 40+ internationals, more Palestinians than in last few weeks.
2. Procession: chanting in three languages.
3. Special effects: Funeral procession to international law, symbolised by giant scales in a coffin, with scales tipped to the Israel side; French delegation carrying a banner of people-holding-hands against ocupation and for human rights.
4. Army encounters: new troops, gas, gas and more gas, with a load of the multi canister cannon right at the end of the demo.
5. Shabab: increased army agressiveness was met with increased shabab retaliation. In acts of good non-citizenship, quite a few unexploded gas grenades were returned to their rightful owners, who got a taste of their own medicine.
6. casulaties: gas inhalation injuries.
and in an audio-visual version:
A report from Maasara, by a participant in the deomnstration:
We marched, 50 Palestinian together with Israelis and internationals towards the adjacent section of the separation fence robbing lands of 4 villages in the region. Like in previous Fridays of the last two years, Israeli soldiers waited for us in a line behind a stretched spool of barbed wire at the border of the village.
Facing that line, speeches were carried in Arabic, Hebrew, and English against the the continuous atrocities... and kids faced the soldiers and asked why they are there.
They mainly kept quite, but when some started to respond, the officer in charge ordered them to stop listening and not to respond.
After the end of the speeches and the chanting of slogans we returned to the village with the fresh news on the adoption of the Goldstone report on the infringement on the human rights in the last Gaza attack of Israel, rising a bit our moral.
And from Ni'ilin:
The weekly protest against the wall in Ni'lin began by marching to the area looking over one of the bends in the wall route.
Ddemontration in Niilin, October 16 2009
The protest then continued west, to the section of the wall where the concrete wall has not been erected (yet...)
Soldiers fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and the stinking "skunk" while some of the protesters threw stones and others protested in other ways. Border police crossed the wall twice, triggering temporary withdrawals, and a group of soldiers entered the wadi in which a group of youth was operating. The protesters then returned to the wall, and continued the protest late into the afternoon before disperssing.
Demonstration in Niilin, October 16 2009
No injuries were recorded, other than tear gas damage.
