Dozens treated for tear gas inhalation at the weekly Bil'in protest

Friday May 30, 2008 14:29 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Villagers from Bil'in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by international and Israeli peace activists conducted their weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village's land on Friday.

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The villagers called for the removal of the of the Israeli wall, settlements. Like wise each week the protests started after the mid-day Friday prayers were finished in the local mosque.

Protesters marched towards the location of the Wall which is separating the village from its land. Immediately after the protest reached the gate of the Wall, soldiers showered the protestors with tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets. Scores of protesters were treated for gas inhalation, and three were injured by rubber-steal coated bullets.

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Iyad Burnat of the local committee against the Wall and Settlements said that the soldiers used a new army vehicle that fires tear gas at protesters. "It can fire 30 gas bombs in one go." Burnat told IMEMC.

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