(Remember back in August? Here's a "refresher" for us):
Seven injured as Israeli army attacks prayer demonstration in Ni’lin
August 16th, 2008 | Posted in Reports, Ramallah Region
Over 50 soliders and jeeps surrrouned them while they were helpless in salat (worship service).
As they finished, without reason the army shot 36 tear gas canisters in a very short time, using a multiple-shot machine carried in one of the jeeps.
They kept shooting tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets for more than half closer than 100 yards from the homes - many got tear gas inside as well.
Two little boys brutually murdered in similar attacks on civilians . . . /Read More /559/52/
r more than half an hour from less than a hundred meters distance from the houses, so many of them got teargas inside as well.
After the people were dispersed from the site of the prayer, soldiers continued shooting massive amounts of gas into the village and in the olive groves between the village and the site of the apartheid wall. Seven people were injured by tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets, two of which has to be sent to the hospital in Ramallah for treatment. The clash between the soldiers and the villagers finished around 4 pm, when all the jeeps suddenly left after an Israeli filmmaker was seriously injured by a rubber-coated steel bullet.
Non-violent demonstrations have been taking place in Ni’lin several times a week for several months, after construction began of the apartheid wall which will annexe roughly fifty percent of the villages farmlands. The occupation forces have responded to the non-violent struggle by using increasingly extreme violence, resulting in the injury of hundreds of people.
Two boys, 10 and 17, have been brutally murdered by the Israeli army, both shot in the head at close range.
