WEST BANK: Photojournalist and two Israeli border police injured during violent demonstration against construction of controversial Barrier

Record ID: 565118

  • Title: WEST BANK: Photojournalist and two Israeli border police injured during violent demonstration against construction of controversial Barrier
  • Date: 13th May 2006
  • Summary: WIDE SHOT ISRAELI TROOPS SHOOTING IN THE DIRECTION OF DEMONSTRATORS WHO REACHED THE BARRIER'S CONSTRUCTION SITE / DEMONSTRATORS RUN AS GAS GRENADES EXPLODE AROUND THEM
  • Embargoed: 28th May 2006 13:00
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  • Story Text: A photojournalist and two Israeli border policemen were injured on Friday (May 12, 2006) during a violent demonstration in the construction site of the controversial West Bank barrier.
    Dozens of Palestinian villagers accompanied by Israeli and foreign peace activists chanted slogans calling to end the Israeli occupation as they marched out of the West Bank village of Beilin and towards the construction site of the barrier.
    An Israeli army spokesman said some 150 demonstrators violated a closed military zone declared in the area, west of the city of Ramallah.
    Scuffles broke out as protesters hurled rocks at soldiers who responded with rubber bullets.
    A photojournalist from the Associated French Press (AFP) was moderately wounded during the clashes, and received medical treatment at a Ramallah hospital. Palestinian doctors said he was wounded by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli troops.
    The Israeli army said he was more likely hurt by rocks thrown by demonstrators.
    Israel says that the barrier, a mixture of electronic fences and walls that encroach upon West Bank territory occupied in 1967 Middle East war, is meant to keep suicide bombers out of its cities.
    Palestinians call the barrier, whose course encompasses Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a disguised move to annex or fragment territory Palestinians seek for a future state in the occupied West Bank.
    The World Court declared the planned 760 kilometre (470 miles) barrier, some 335 kilometre (208 miles) of which is completed, illegal but Israel has ignored the non-binding ruling.
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