WEST BANK: ISRAELI SOLDIERS FIRE LIVE AMMUNITION AND TEAR GAS AT STONE-THROWING PALESTINIANS DURING ANTI-SEPERATION BARRIER PROTESTS IN BEIT LEHIA

Record ID: 400906

  • Title: WEST BANK: ISRAELI SOLDIERS FIRE LIVE AMMUNITION AND TEAR GAS AT STONE-THROWING PALESTINIANS DURING ANTI-SEPERATION BARRIER PROTESTS IN BEIT LEHIA
  • Date: 28th March 2004
  • Summary: (W6) BEIT LEHIA, WEST BANK (MARCH 28, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF TEAR GAS CLOUD IN FIELD AND PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS RUNNING AWAY 0.15 2. CLOSE OF ISRAELI BORDER POLICEMAN FIRING LIVE AMMUNITION TOWARD PALESTINIANS DEMONSTRATING AGAINST CONSTRUCTION OF CONTROVERSIAL SEPARATION BARRIER 0.19 3. PALESTINIAN BOY USING SLINGSHOT TO AIM STONE AT I
  • Embargoed: 12th April 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BEIT LEHIA, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAA6K3MJ9SV09H6LLJ75FAZ5Z0L
  • Story Text: Israeli soldiers fire live ammunition and tear gas
    towards Palestinians at an anti-barrier protest.



    Israeli forces fired live bullets and tear gas at
    stone-throwing Palestinians protesting on Sunday (March 28)
    against a controversial West Bank barrier being built by
    Israel to divide it from West Bank.

    The clashes in the village of Beit Lehia, near the
    Palestinian city of Ramallah, was the latest of a series of
    violent protests in the West Bank against a project that
    Israel says stops suicide bombers and Palestinians call a
    land grab.

    The bulwark of fences and walls built so far in the
    West Bank runs 180 km (110 miles) and is to stretch over
    700 km (420 miles).

    Palestinians say the barrier, by snaking well into the
    West Bank and taking in Jewish settlements, is intended to
    annex territory that Israel occupied in a 1967 war but
    which they want for a viable state under a U.S.-backed
    peace plan.

    The barrier, whose legality if under World Court
    scrutiny, has cut off tens of thousands of Palestinians
    from urban markets, services, neighbouring villages and
    farmland.


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