WEST BANK: Palestinian and international peace activists partake in weekly anti-barrier demonstration

Record ID: 560756

  • Title: WEST BANK: Palestinian and international peace activists partake in weekly anti-barrier demonstration
  • Date: 9th May 2009
  • Summary: BILIN, WEST BANK (MAY 8, 2009) (REUTERS) PALESTINIAN AND INTERNATIONAL PROTESTERS MARCH FROM WEST BANK VILLAGE OF BILIN TOWARDS BARRIER LOCATION DEMONSTRATORS GATHERING CARRYING PALESTINIAN FLAGS AND HOLDING BANNERS ISRAELI ARMY AND JEEP BEHIND BARBED WIRE SEVERAL DEMONSTRATORS HOLDING FLAGS STANDING BESIDE BARBED WIRE FENCE ISRAELI SOLDIERS THROWING TEAR GAS GRENADES MAKING THICK WHITE SMOKE DEMONSTRATORS THROWING STONES AT SOLDIERS / SOLDIERS FIRE TEAR GAS / DEMONSTRATORS FLEE ISRAELI SOLDIERS SHOOTING TEAR GAS CANISTERS WHITE SMOKE DEMONSTRATORS CARRYING MAN OVERCOME BY TEAR GAS SOLDIERS BEHIND BARBED WIRE FIRING TEAR GAS AND YOUTH THROWING STONES TEAR GAS CANISTER ON THE GROUND DEMONSTRATORS AND CAMERA CREWS DURING DEMONSTRATION YOUTH THROWING STONES WHILE ISRAELI SOLDIERS SHOOTING, AMIDST WHITE SMOKE
  • Embargoed: 24th May 2009 13:00
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  • Topics: War / Fighting,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAB8U0PMUBI6X8UCOTSPGZ5KSL1
  • Story Text: Dozens of demonstrators in the West Bank village of Bilin on Friday (May 8) marched towards the site of the construction of the Israeli-built separation barrier. The demonstrators threw stones at the Israeli soldiers while they fired tear gas at them.
    An Israeli army spokesperson said that at least 40 rioters took part in the demonstration and hurled stones at the Israeli soldiers who then responded by using riot dispersal means.
    The barrier in Bilin cuts some three kilometres (two miles) into the village, separating some of the village farmers from their fields.
    Israel has said that the barrier, a mix of electronic fences and walls that encroaches on West Bank territory, is meant to keep suicide bombers out of its cities.
    Palestinians call the barrier - the course of which encompasses Israeli settlements in the West Bank - a disguised move to annex or fragment territory Palestinians seek for a viable state.
    The World Court in The Hague ruled in 2004 that Israel's building of the barrier was illegal.
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