Demonstrators marching to the wall

This week’s demonstration in Bil’in protested military violence against children, and was dedicated to Abir Aramin, a ten year old from the village of Anata near Jerusalem. Abir was hit in the back of her head with either a rubber coated steel bullet, or with a concussion grenade, as border policemen invaded Anata Tuesday. She died of her wounds last night at the Hadasa Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem.

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Villagers demonstrating against the wall in Um Salamuna

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in Um Salamuna today, to conduct the Friday prayer on lands recently bulldozed for the wall. They were joined by Israeli activists from the Anarchists against the wall initiative and by international activists who came to express their solidarity. Fortunately, there were no bulldozers working on the village’s lands today, and even the military stayed afar, on an overlooking hill.

A Palestinian demonstrator expressing solidarity with wounded Photographer Fadi El-Arouri

This week in Bil'in, after almost two solid years of at least one demonstration a week, over a hundred people took part in the weekly demonstration. In addition to protesting the wall and the occupation, this week's demonstration was also held in solidarity with Maan News Agency photographer, Fadi Al-Arouri, who was shot with live ammunition in the stomach and groin during a Special Forces invasion to Ramallah recently. Fadi is hospitalized in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, and is still unconscious.

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Hundreds march in Bil'in

In a semi-historic day for the popular movement against the wall, the central committee of Fatah decided to mark its 42nd anniversary by joining the weekly demonstration in Bil'in.

Over 500 Palestinians from the entire Ramallah district gathered in Bil'in despite pouring rain and the previous day's military invasion of Ramallah, that left four people dead and about twenty injured, some critically. They were joined by Israeli and international supporters.

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Border policemen grabbing a Palestinian demonstrator

This week’s protest, on the eve of the Eid El-Adha fest, saw the participation of a larger group of villagers than the usual.
As in every week lately, on their way to the wall, demonstrators spotted border police officers entering the village to taunt the youth and attract stone throwers. On reaching the closed gate, with soldiers barricaded behind it and razor-wire, protesters were able to breach through the razor-wire nearby, the first barrier of the wall, creating a passage. Soldiers, limited by the same razor-wire they placed in front of the gate, slowly made their way to close the passage. By that time a small group had already crossed, and was now between the razor-wire and the second barrier of the wall, a 2.5 meters fence.

A traffic jam in Tel Aviv after activists blocked the street with razor wire from the West Bank Wall

Basel Street, one of Tel Aviv's hippest coffee shop centers, was blocked by 20 anarchists, using razor wire from the wall itself today at around 14:00.

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