Residents Wounded in Anti- Wall Rallies
IPC+WAFA

Four residents were wounded Friday in Aboud village, North West of Rammallah and al Birah district when the IOF soldiers attacked anti-Apartheid Wall march, built by Israel dipping deep inside the occupied Palestinian territories.

Sources at the Popular Committee against the Wall in the village reported that the Israeli soldiers assaulted a peaceful rally organized by the committee, following the Friday's Noon Prayer, in an association with the other popular activities and the national and Islamic streams in the districts.

The same sources confirmed that the Israeli troops opened fire at a rally included a number of internationals and Israeli peace activists while they were heading off to Wadi Abu Khameis area, where the construction acts of the wall are on the go.

Four residents were injured; one Israeli peace activist and two brothers Abed Allah and Abed Abed al Rahman Wajeh and Suleiman Khouri for three hours in which they were violently pummeled and badly bruised allover the body.

Elias Azar, head of Aboud village council, spoke to Wafa News Agency said that the Israeli occupation authorities has started since 9 November to bulldoze vast areas of Olive orchards after issuing orders to grab 3887 Dunams, which belong to the residents, jeopardizing to turn the village into a big jail.

Azar appealed the relative international and local humanitarian bodies alongside the peace activists to triumph the residents of the village in their unwavering struggle against the Apartheid Wall.

In Bilin village, the weekly protest against the Wall came in synchronize with a similar march in Berlin,the German capital, demanding the world to work on removing the wall as the same as with the defunct Berlin wall at early of 90s.

Residents and tens of the internationals and Israelis carried out their massive the weekly peaceful rally in Bilin village after the Friday prayers heading to the construction site of the wall.

The protestors carried a large piece of cloth which had four maps of Palestine printed on it.

The first drawing represents the historic Palestine, complete and undivided; the second represents Palestine after Security Council resolution No. (181), in November 1947, which recommended the partitioning of Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state (with an international enclave comprising Jerusalem and Bethlehem)

The third map represents the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the east of Jerusalem following the 1967 war while the fourth resembles a map of the Apartheid Wall with the symbol (2006, 2007 printed on it resembling the unclear future of the Palestinian territories, and the Palestinian residents.

The protestors intercepted the Israeli bulldozers and managed to stop them from working for several hours. Soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets and gas bombs.

A resident, identified as Adeeb Abu Rahma, was injured after the soldiers attacked and hit him severely with their batons; one Israeli peace activists was arrested, and dozens of protestors received medical treatment after inhaling gas fired by the Israeli occupation soldiers.

In the battered city of Hebron, the Israeli occupation authorities issued a military proclamation, locking down the Ibraheimi mosque in the face of Muslims in the city for a day on the pretense of Jewish festivities

And, additional military proclamations were issued against the residents of the city and their properties. Accordingly, tens of the stores and vivid roads are to be closed.

The military orders signed by the IOF commander of the West Bank includes the closure of more no less than 60 stores, situated along 2km adjacent to main road linking the Ibraheimi mosque to the illegal Jewish settlement of Kryat Arbaa , which is slated to be used for military purposes and the movement of the Jewish settlers.