Waves of freedom.
Dozens of demonstrators tear-gassed in the village of Bil'in west of Ramallah.
Dozens of demonstrators suffered from asphyxiation in the weekly march organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil'in this Friday. Present at the demonstration was a Norwegian delegation from the Palestinian Cultural Exchange Foundation and dozens of Palestinians and international and Israeli peace activists.
The march began after Friday prayers, heading from the center of the village to the land that was liberated after the separation fence was dismantled in June. Participants raised Palestinian flags and a banner reading Waves of Freedom, in honor of the Irish and Canadian ships heading to Gaza to break the siege. The demonstration also commemorated the signing of the Balfour Declaration on November 2nd, 1917. They shouted patriotic slogans calling for the departure of the occupation, destruction of the apartheid wall, freedom and rights for Palestinian prisoners, and an end to the siege on the Gaza Strip.
Upon their arrival to the Abu Lemon nature reserve, some local participants were able to remove some of the barbed wire and iron posts that surround the wall. The demonstration continued for some time, during which some local participants threw stones over the wall. The soldiers behind the concrete wall shot tear gas canisters at these participants, as well as journalists and international witnesses.
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