Army attacks an anti Wall demonstration near Ramallah

Friday April 25, 2008 22:13 by Manar Jibrin - IMEMC News

Friday afternoon, dozens of residents of Shabateen village , north west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah marched to the construction site of the Separation Wall on their farm lands.

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After reaching the site, the residents stopped the Israeli bulldozers from working there and attacked one of them. Then the Israeli army who were at the scene fired rounds of live ammunition on the demonstrators.

Four residents were critically injured who were identified as, Rabeh Ya'qub, live bullet in the foot, Anwar Abed al Kreem, a live bullet in the hand and the head of the village council, Jameel Sa'adat and Ali Ya'qub hit with a coated rubber steel bullet.

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