[News] Toilet water – the new kind of weapon used against the people from Bil’in

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Toilet water – the new kind of weapon used against the people from Bil’in
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Bil’in’s Protest 8/08/08

Today,8 August 2008, after the Friday Prayers, 
the inhabitants of Bil’in, Israeli, and 
international peace activists participated in a 
demonstration against the wall. They raised 
Palestinian flags and signs with slogans that 
condemn the policies of the occupation.
The slogans condemned the construction of the 
wall, the confiscation of Palestinian lands for 
the construction of settlements, the road 
closures, and the seizure of Palestinian 
villages, towns, and cities. The protesters also 
carried signs with slogans against the killing of 
innocent civilians, especially children. In 
addition, the slogans condemned the attacks on 
detainees, in particular, shooting at them while 
detained, hand cuffed and blindfolded.

The protest started from the centre of the 
village, and the protesters chanted similar 
slogans in addition to those that called for 
national unity. Upon arrival to the wall, the 
protesters while raising photos of the murdered 
children, Ahmed Husam Yousef Musa and Yousef 
Ahmed Amera, attempted to cross the wall in to 
their land. The action was a symbol of protest 
against the monstrous violations that Israeli 
soldiers commit against Palestinian civilians. 
Israeli soldiers murdered Ahmed 10 days ago, 29 
July 2008, and Yousef 3 days ago, 4 August 2008 - 
both while participating in non-violent protests 
against the construction of the segregation wall in Ni’lin.

Today, the protesters succeeded to arrive at the 
location of the wall, and they repeated chants 
and slogans against the occupation soldiers and 
their officers that command them to shoot unarmed 
civilians. Soon after, confrontations started, 
the soldiers started firing tear gas, and sprayed 
us with toilet water. We would like to take a 
sample for analysis. Many people immediately had 
to be sick after being sprayed with this water. 
This is not the first time they use water, but 
this time was the first that they used water from 
the toilets. In addition to the water, the 
soldiers use many types of weapons on the 
Palestinians. For example they use many types of 
gas, many types of rubber bullets, clean water, 
water mixed with gas, scream, saltball, 
sackbeans. All of these are new weapons.

 From a different point, the Israeli Supreme 
Court gave 45 days (52 as of today) to the 
Israeli army to correct the current track of the 
segregation wall that passes through the village. 
Israeli Chief Justice, Dorit Beinisch, and two of 
her fellow colleagues, condemned the Israeli 
government’s neglictance of the Supreme Court’s 
ruling last year, which ordered the correction of 
the current track of the wall.

Chief Justice Beinisch confirmed to the Israeli 
government representative, Avi Lisht, her ruling 
to correct the track of the wall and added; “we 
ruled that the current track cannot sustain as it does now.”

The people of Bil’in submitted a petition to the 
Israeli Supreme Court in 2005, hoping to prevent 
the Israeli occupation army from confiscating 
their lands. The confiscated lands would be used 
to build the segregation wall and further annex 
the remaining of the land in favor of 
constructing the illegal settlement, ‘East Metateaho’.

On July 2007, the Israeli Supreme Court decreed 
the illegitimacy of constructing the wall on 
Bil’in’s lands, and further ordered the 
government to propose a different track of the 
wall without harming the nature of the village. A 
year after the ruling, and because the Israeli 
government did not act in accordance with the 
ruling, the people of Bil’in through their 
advocate, Mikhael Sfard, decided to return to the 
Supreme Court. The Israeli government further 
continues the same policy without acknowledging the Supreme Courts ruling.





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