Israeli soldiers used force to shut down weekly non-violent anti-wall protests in villages across the West Bank on Friday Aug. 13. International, Israeli and Palestinian activists in Bil'in [2], Nil'in [3], and An-Nabi Salih, near Ramallah, and in al-Ma'sara, near Bethlehem, were met with tear-gas grenades as they marched towards the separation wall to protest the confiscation of their lands.
In Nil'in, soldiers crossed the gate in the wall and chased demonstrators, throwing tear-gas grenades, leading to an outbreak of clashes as activists responded by throwing stones, organizers said. Clashes also broke out in An-Nabi Salih, where demonstrators reported that Israeli soldiers closed roads leading to the village. Tear gas and sound grenades were launched at protesters in al-Ma'sara village, organizers said, adding that hundreds of villagers and foreign solidarity groups participated in the rally, and sang Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Italian protest songs. (Ma'an News Agency [4], Aug. 14)
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