Tag: Live Ammunition

  • Gate forced open in Ni’lin’s separation barrier – eight demonstrators wounded and one arrested

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 28 November 2009 For immediate release: This morning, a group of demonstrators in the West Bank village of Ni’lin managed to surprise the Israeli army and, using bolt cutters, cut open one of the gates in the fence built on the village’s lands. Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene and fired…

  • Israeli forces shoot at Gaza bird-catchers, farmers

    Eva Bartlett | The Electronic Intifada 20 November 2009 On 15 November at 8:30am, a number of young men went as usual to the land near Gaza’s northern border with Israel planning to catch birds. Amjad Hassanain, 27, was among the bird-catchers hunting near the border fence when Israeli soldiers began shooting. The shots which…

  • Two injured in anti-wall rally

    Ali Waked | YNet News 20 November 2009 Some 400 Palestinians, left-wing activists take part in weekly demonstration against separation fence’s route in West Bank village of Naalin, say IDF violated law by dispersing crowd with sniper fire. Army says protestors were hurling stones. Two Palestinians were moderately injured Friday afternoon by Israel Defense Forces…