Palestinian Injured, Dozens of Suffocation Cases in Bilin Weekly Anti-Wall Protest

RAMALLA, January 20, 2012 (WAFA) - A Palestinian was injured as well as dozens others were tear gassed by Israeli Soldiers on Friday in the village of Bil'in, west of Ramallah, according to local sources.

Twenty four year-old Mohammed Abo Rahma was shot with a rubber bullet in the left thigh as well as dozens of protesters were suffering with tear gas choking in the weekly march which organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil'in in solidarity with the prisoners, specially the activist from Bil'in, Ashraf Abu Rahma.

Dozens of Palestinian, international and Israeli peace activists participated in the demonstration.

The march began after Friday prayers from the center of the village headed to the land near the wall, Participants raised Palestinian flags, the yellow banners which painted with the image of the prisoner leader Marwan Barghouti and pictures of the prisoner, Ashraf Abo Rahma, who was sentenced by Israeli military court last week with six months and a half and 3000 NIS in addition to six months suspended for three years.

The participants chanted the national slogans which calling for the departure of the occupation, destruction of the apartheid wall and also calling for freedom of the prisoners.

Upon the arrival of participants to Abu Limon area, one of the participants was able to break through the barbed wire and draw the flag of Palestine on the concrete wall and he wrote patriotic slogans which are calling for the departure of the occupation and its settlers from the land of Palestine

The occupation soldiers stationed behind the concrete wall fired tear gas , sound bombs , rubber bullets, and they sprayed waste water mixed with chemicals towards the participants, which resulted the injury of a citizen, in addition of dozens of participants were suffered choking.

Injuries were treated in the field by ambulance crews.

Palestine News & Info Agency - WAFA