A-Infos (en) Palestine-Israel, Bil'in, Another quite Friday demonstration against the separation fence and occupation

It is probably the ninety ninth (99) Friday demonstration in a row 
(since February 2005) of the joint struggle of the Bil'in people and the 
Israeli anarchists against the wall initiative. Though the separation 
fence had already been built in the region, and in spite of the Israeli 
supreme court of "justice" approval of the robbery of most of the 
village lands on the west side of the separation fence, and even when 
lot of the village people do not support the Friday demonstrations any 
more - the struggle continue. There are still enough people of the 
village, of the Israelis anarchists against the wall, international 
activists, and Palestinians out of the village who persist. This Friday 
about 80 of us marched at noon from the village center on the road 
towards the route of the separation fence. Holding some flags and 
placards, and chanting all the way we arrived at the blocked gate to the 
other side of the fence. (When we exited the built area of the village 
we have seen on the two sides of it the Israeli state force waiting for 
the stone throwing youngsters who engage them with the stones against 
shock and tear gas grenades and rubber coated bullets each Friday - 
after the nonviolent demonstration is already out of the village.)

When we arrived at the blocked gate, we found that like the previous 
Friday, the spools of barbed wire were not "protecting" the gate and the 
"ritual" of pulling it with response of shock grenades - that 
characterized previous demonstrations, was   not carried out. Thus after 
some verbal confrontation with the soldiers protecting the closed gate 
we started to march along the separation fence. As usual, Few officers 
and a platoon of soldiers accompanied us to prevent "assault" on the 
spool of the barbed wire that protect the fence  that protect the route 
the electronic fence pass in its middle.

As in the previous demonstration some of us pooled a bit, but stopped 
when the soldiers insist... some of us succeeded to pass the barbed wire 
and stand along the fence bordering the route, before the soldiers 
blocked the points the passing was possible at.

And as usual, there was there the verbal confrontation with the state 
force personal - mostly privates serving the mandatory 3 year service of 
high school graduates and their officers.

After a while, we  started to return to the village. However, it was not 
so simple, as the area around the entrance of the road to the village 
was the war zone the confrontation between the village youngsters and 
the state force was continuing. So we made a long detour around them and 
arrived back to the center of the village without casualties.  
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