West Bank Protestors injured by Israeli Forces

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A small group of Palestinians protesting against Israeli’s forcible occupation in West Bank town of Bilin were fired tear gas and war Annunciations. They were protesting to mark 50 years of separate wall built by Israel in there Country.

When few demonstrators crossed the fenced and threw empty cans at the soldiers, the Israeli army fired tear gas and began throwing various war ammunition over the fence like Skunk gas which is very harmful and can even cause death.

The soldiers are acting very desperate and the situation is getting dangerous day by day.

Several international Palestinian activist have been killed since the last past few years when tear gas canisters hit them or when they were shot by rubber bullets and war weaponry.

This act of dispersing the crowd using war weapons has been condemned by several human rights groups and is against the international law.

In response to this the Israeli Defense Forces(IDF) said that it can use any means to disperse the crowd. Palestinians feel the wall as an act of land grabbing, the wall cutting through some towns like Bilin. Few months back Israel started Rerouting a part of the separated barrier near the town of Bilin, as a result of a two and half year old court order.

If this order is implemented then 70,000 square meters of land will be returned back to Palestine and the wall has to be taken down. The International Court of Justice and the United Nations have said the wall is illegal. And that is reason why there are protest. The wall which separates villages, cuts through Palestinian land and makes life difficult in the occupied West Bank.

[Source:AP]

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