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On-going resistance in Bil’in In the second Friday of Ramadan, dozen cases of suffocation in Bil’in’s weekly demonstration
Despite hot weather and the fasting of the holy month of Ramadan, dozen cases of asphyxiation from tear gas observed in the march organized by the Popular Committee against the Wall and settlements in Bil'in. The march began from the center of the village towards the liberated land adjacent to the apartheid wall. People from Bil’in, dozens of Israeli and foreigner peace activists participated the march. Participants raised Palestinian flags and chanted slogans calling for the demolition of the wall, ending the occupation and liberation of prisoners. Upon the arrival to Abu laimon area, the occupation soldiers who situated behind the wall shot tear gas, stun grenades towards demonstrators and also they sprayed skunk water, which led to the suffering of dozens from inhaling the gas all of them were treated on the field. On other hand some of youths threw stones at the soldiers
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