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9-Year-old boy wounded in nonviolent protest near Bethlehem

author Friday November 28, 2008 15:59author by IMEMC Staff Report this post to the editors

9-year-old, Hareth Bregieyh from Al-Ma'asara, South of Bethlehem, has been injured after he was brutally beaten by Israeli soldiers this Friday afternoon, during a nonviolent protest. The boy suffered cuts and bruises in his arm after troops pushed at the barbed wire.

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The villagers protested against the Wall, which is being built on the land of the village. The demonstrators raised the Palestinian flag and banners that condemn the Israeli operation and the wall.

Banners were also raised to mark the anniversary of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People, which is to denounced the Israeli continue escalations against the Palestinian people during the last 6 decades.

The soldiers used barbed wires to stop the demonstrators to get close to the construction sight. During this the child was hurt, while all the Palestinian and the Internationals activist were demonstrating peacefully, according to Mohammed Bregieyh, spokesman of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements.

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