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RAMALLAH, Sept 17 (KUNA) -- Dozens of Palestinians protesting peacefully
against the Separation Wall and the Jewish settlement expansions in several
parts of the occupied West Bank were injured Friday when the Israeli military
forces responded harshly.
Hundreds of Palestinians took to streets in Bal'in town, to the west of the
West Bank, after the noon prayers in the weekly protests against what they
call "the apartheid wall" with several foreign sympathizers, including
Israelis, participating.
They sought to show solidarity with villagers whose land, located on the
route of the wall, were confiscated by the Israeli authorities; they also
sought to show solidarity with the Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails.
The Israeli forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at the protesters
which resulted in the suffocation of dozens of protesters including a foreign
female sympathizer.
In Al-Ma'sara village, near the central West Bank city of Bethlehem,
several protesters suffered suffocation when the Israeli forces, stationed at
the confiscated land, fired tear gas grenade heavily at them in order to block
their way to the confiscated land.
In a similar incident in Nilin town dozens of protesters were injured and
suffered suffocation as the Israeli forces used force against a demonstration
against the judaization of Jerusalem and the burning of copies of Holy Quran
by a number of Jewish extremists recently.
Some protesters climbed the Separation Wall and raised the Palestinian flag
in defiance of the Israeli authorities. However the Israeli soldiers opened
the gate of the wall, ran after them and injured several of them. (end)
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