- Title: WEST BANK: Clashes erupt at barrier demo in the West Bank
- Date: 20th December 2008
- Summary: NILIN, WEST BANK (DECEMBER 19, 2008) (REUTERS) HUNDREDS OF DEMONSTRATORS HOLDING PALESTINIAN FLAGS AND SHOES ON STICKS DURING ANTI-BARRIER DEMONSTRATION YOUTH COVERING FACE WITH PALESTINIAN SCARF VIEW OF PALESTINIAN FLAG MORE OF DEMONSTRATORS MARCHING DURING WEEKLY ANTI BARRIER DEMONSTRATION SITE WHERE ISRAEL IS BUILDING A SEPARATION BARRIER SOLDIERS IN DISTANCE SHOOTING GUNS SMOKE BILLOWING FROM TEAR GAS CANISTERS ISRAELI SOLDIERS FIRING TEAR GAS YOUTH THROWING ROCKS AT BARRIER CONSTRUCTION SITE PALESTINIAN CARRYING PALESTINIAN FLAG NEAR BARRIER CONSTRUCTION SITE SMOKE BILLOWING FROM TEAR GAS CANISTER ISRAELI ARMY VEHICLE DRIVING AT BARRIER CONSTRUCTION SITE INJURED JOURNALIST VARIOUS OF PARAMEDICS TREATING INJURED AMBULANCE DRIVING AWAY SMOKE BILLOWING FROM TEAR GAS CANISTER INJURED MAN RUNNING AWAY TEAR GAS SMOKE MASKED MAN ON TOP OF OLIVE TREE THROWING STONES AT SOLDIERS STONE THROWING
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- Topics: International Relations
- Reuters ID: LVA3LRWMGUDQBBP2QM2464T96QOT
- Story Text: Activists clash with the Israeli army during two separate weekly demonstrations protesting Israel's construction of a separation barrier in the West Bank International and Palestinian activists clashed with the Israeli army during two separate anti-barrier demonstrations on Friday (December 19) in the West Bank villages of Jayyous and Nilin.
Near the town of Qalqilya, in the village of Jayyous, two demonstrators were injured during the weekly anti-barrier demonstration against Israel's construction of a separation barrier.
Palestinians threw rocks at the Israeli army and the army responded by firing rubber bullets and tear gas. A foreign female civilian was wounded in the head from rocks thrown by Palestinians. An Israeli army spokesperson said that the female foreign civilian was lightly injured and taken to an Israeli hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile in Nilin, activists marched in a separate anti-barrier protest against Israeli construction of separation barrier which cuts through Palestinian olive groves.
Six journalists were injured including a cameraman who was hit in the knee by a rubber bullet shot by the Israeli army.
In a third demonstration near village of Bilin, an Israeli army spokesperson said that two Israeli officers, two soldiers injured by rocks.
The army used riot dispersal methods against 100 stone throwers.
The international court of justice declared the planned 600-km (370-mile) separation barrier, more than half of which is completed, illegal, but Israel has ignored the non-binding ruling.
Israeli authorities say the barrier is needed to prevent would-be suicide bombers from infiltrating Israeli communities.
Palestinians say, that the barrier impose restrictions on Palestinians movement between cities and villages and prevents residents from tending to their farm land, and is an attempt by Israel to claim land Palestinians wish to have for a future independent state.
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