Dozens of Cases of Suffocation in Bil'in Weekly March
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- Published on Friday, 28 December 2012 21:35
Friday 28th December, dozens of demonstrators suffocated after inhaling tear gas in Bil'in weekly march organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil'in. The march began after Friday prayers from the center of the village towards the wall.
Dozens of Israeli and international activists Participated in the march along with the people of Bil'in, the participants raised Palestinian flags and chanted slogans calling for resisting the Israeli occupation , the demolition of the separation wall and also they called for a real solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners to liberate them from the Israeli Jails.
Upon the arrival of the participants to the Abu Lemon area adjacent to the wall, they cut some of the barbed wire around the apartheid wall and removed them away. The Israeli soldiers Who situated behind the wall shot tear gas , sound grenades, lead rubber-coated metal and they also sprayed wastewater mixed with chemicals at the protesters, which led to the injury of dozens of cases of suffocation, all of them were treated in the field.
Violent clashes broke out between the youths and the Israeli occupation soldiers continued for hours. During that, the Israeli soldiers used jeeps to chase youths in the fields in an attempt to arrest them, in their side the youths threw stones at Israeli soldiers.
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