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Dozens suffer from teargas inhalation in Bil’in protest
October 18th, 2008 *|* Posted in Reports
<http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/category/reports/>, Bil'in Village
<http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/category/bilin/>
*Report from the Bil’in Committee Against the Apartheid Wall and
Settlements*
Friday 17 October 2008
After the Friday prayer, the residents of Bil’in gathered in a protest
together with Israeli and international activists. A group from France
called on French people to support the Palestinian People and another
group from Norway joined the demonstration in solidarity with the
village in their struggle against the Wall and settlement building.
The protesters raised Palestinian flags and banners to allow Palestinian
farmers to pick olive trees from their land. The protest called to
remove the illegal wall and settlements, stop land confiscations, remove
checkpoints and road blocks, and the release of all the Palestinian
detainees.
Another delegation from the National and International Affairs
Department from the PLO visited the village to support the families with
picking their olives. The members of the Popular Committee Against the
Wall and Settlement Building gave a presentation to the delegation. The
head manager of the department, along with the head of the Information
Department, Abed Alrasol, and Myassar the manager of Foreign Relations
gave a plaque in an appreciation for the efforts and standing of the
village and the committee against Israeli aggression. They offered
Bil’in greetings and support from the head of the Department of
International and Arab Relations in the PLO Ghassan Asheka.
The demonstrators chanted against the discriminatory policies of the
occupation and called for a national unity among the Palestinians, while
they carried ladders and tools to pick olives. When the protest reached
the gate, protesters tried to access the land to pick olives, but they
were stopped by sound grenades and teargas canisters. The demonstrators
managed to damage and take off the gate to bring it to the village, near
the monument of Yassir Arafat in the center of the village.
A delegation from the village along with international and Israeli
activists joined the village of Almazra’a Alsharqiya and the neighboring
villages to remove a road block that has been placed for 17 years near
A’in Al-Haramiya area on the road between Nablus and Ramallah.
The International Human Rights Organization in Berlin announced the
nomination of Bili’in Popular Committee Against the Wall in Ramallah and
the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall for Carl Von Ossietzky’s prize
2008. Osseitzky was kidnapped and tortured in the Nazi prison camp
(Soninburg), located near the Polish city of Slontnick because of his
resistance against racism and war.
Bili’in Popular Committee Against the Wall in Ramallah and the Israeli
Anarchists Against the Wall were nominated because of their massive
efforts in resisting the wall which violates human rights. The award
ceremony will be held on October 7th at the House of World Cultures in
Berlin. That date was chosen to mark the sixtieth anniversary of signing
the International Declaration of Human Rights on 10th of October, 1948
in the UN General Assembly.
--
Linda
*http://freedetainees.org <http://freedetainees.org/>
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