A-Infos (en) Palestine-Israel, 100th weekly Friday joint demonstration in Bil'in against the separation fence and occupation

The Israeli state still do not like the joint Friday demonstrations 
against the separation fence and occupation,  (as was expressed by the 
patrolling armored car who found us waiting to the car to Bil'in and 
declared the area as closed military zone and ordered us to return to 
the Israeli territory.. which we ignored). However they adopted a  less 
belligerent pattern. As usual there were Palestinians from the village, 
from neighboring villages, and from Ramallah, and as usual ISM 
international (including this day a two dozen strong delegation from 
Spain), and of course the Israeli activists of the anarchists against 
the wall that never missed any of the demos in Bil'in.
As usual we started at noon the march from center of village to the 
route of the separation fence. As usual we carried a banner and 
placards, chanting all the way. As usual we seen the border police 
gendarmes on the roof of the last house and around it as provocation 
inviting the youngsters of the village to start the usual battle of 
stones against shock and tear gas grenades and rubber coated bullets. As 
usual we marched the one kilometer road  through the olive grooves. As 
usual we found the gate to the route of the separation route blocked, 
with few soldiers in front of it.

As usual, there was the verbal confrontation and  and low intensity 
physical pushing to - mainly from the soldiers side. As usual (but not 
the previous Friday), there was also the "hero" youngster who throe few  
stones behind our backs and quickly run away... but not as usual, the 
soldiers did not respond with the usual barge of shock grenades... and 
the nonviolent demo continued without the expected disruption

after a while we started to walk along  the rote of the fence and in 
many points comrades pulled the barbed wire spools protecting the fence 
of the rote the electronic one is in its middle. The less belligerent 
mode of the soldiers was expressed by their refraining from throwing on 
us shock or tear gas grenades or arresting the most daring - they just 
approached the ones who pulled the barbed wire and pushed them away....

As usual, we heard all along the grenades and the shooting from the 
fringe of the village - though it seemed to be in lower intensity than 
usual. We were able to pass the "war zone" and return to the village 
without the need for a long detour with only the remnants of tear gas 
bothering us.
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