Um Salamuna village protest against the construction of the Wall

Friday March 30, 2007 17:32 by George Rishmawi - IMEMC

Around two hundred protestors marched in the village of Um Salamuna, south of Bethlehem, to protest the construction of the Illegal Wall on their land and to commemorate the 31st anniversary of Land Day.

Nonviolent Protest in Um Salamuna aganist the Wall on Land Day (Photo: Hussam Jubran)

Around two hundred protestors marched in the village of Um Salamuna, south of Bethlehem, to protest the construction of the Illegal Wall on their land and to commemorate the 31st anniversary of Land Day.
Protestors, including Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis, carried signs and banners and chanted slogans calling for the removal of the Wall, describing it as land theft that is killing Palestinian livelihood.

The protest started with a prayer on the land slated for confiscation by the Israeli authorities for the construction of the wall.

No clashes erupted with the soldiers as the protestors remained nonviolent. Provocative moves by some of the protestors were stopped by the organizers of the action.

The crowd arrived at the Mosque of the village where some speeches concerning the Land Day were made. The speakers stressed the importance of the nonviolent resistance to protect the land from being confiscated by the Israeli army.

A wide area of the village of Um Salamuna and the nearby villages are confiscated for the construction of the wall and the expansion of the Israeli settlement of Ephrata.

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