A Shoe Demonstration Against the Apartheid Wall in Bil'in 19-12-08

Bil'in 19-12-08 clip:

Bil'in: Israeli Army Attacks the Weekly Protest Injuring at Least 10 People, including Journalists
Source: IMEMC
Date: Friday December 19, 2008

In Bil'in village near Ramallah city, central West Bank, demonstrators marched today after the Friday prayer carrying Palestinian flags and banners calling for an end to the Israeli occupation, the building of the apartheid wall, illegal settlement expansion, land confiscation, settler attacks, closures and roadblocks, and the release of all 11,000 plus detainees.

The demonstration included internationals and Israeli activist. Members of the Peoples' Struggle Front also joined the protest today and carried banners. Today’s theme was the Iraqi journalist and the shoes he threw at outgoing US President George W Bush. Demonstrators carried shoes along with damning pictures and words of Bush and his allies Olmert, Barak and Sharon.

Beginning in the village of Bil’in, the march moved through the streets, and the demonstrators rang out chants rejecting US foreign policy and life under Israeli occupation. When the group of demonstrators and Palestinians turned toward the apratheid wall, in an attempt to cross into Palestinian land, Israeli soldiers waited behind concrete blocks.

From there the soldiers began firing tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets. Demonstrators responded to these attacks by throwing their shoes at the army. Dozens of people suffered injuries from the gas while eight were shot. Two journalists were hit, including WAFA photographer Issam Arrimawi. Also, among the wounded from the bullets was a 15-year-old Palestinian child who is currently receiving treatment in Ramallah’s Sheikh Zaid Hospital.





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