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November 11, 2009 – 1:00 am
inhabitants of Palestine and foreign nationals smashed yesterday the Israeli separation barrier during a demonstration in honor of the 20 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the town of Qalandiya in the occupied West Bank group of activists wearing masks with the help of the truck has turned inside out from the wall-Meter concrete block before Israeli security forces met them with gas grenades.
Several of the approximately 50 demonstrators forced their way into the formed hole hoisted on the side of the Palestinian flag and set fire to car tires, said Al-Jazeera “.
” Today we celebrate the 20 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – said the leader of the People’s Campaign the destruction of the wall (People’s Campaign to Fight the Wall), Abdullah Abu Rahma. – We are beginning to act, to show that this is our land, and we do not recognize this wall, personifies the suffering and humiliation “.
Protesters intend to spend a week of protests in the Palestinian territories and around the world, including the campaign for the release of all activists who opposed the illegal construction of Israeli separation wall, which is currently languishing in prisons.
Protests against the wall have become commonplace Nilin and the villages of Bil’in in the West Bank. Last Friday, nearly succeeded in overthrowing one of the segments of the wall using a hydraulic jack. But invariably activists from Palestine, Israel and other countries met with tear gas grenades and rubber bullets by Israeli soldiers.
Israel began building the separation fence, consisting of concrete walls and barbed wire, in 2002, for security reasons. In some places they reach 8 meters – twice as high as the Berlin Wall, the destruction is such a triumph was seen in the West. If construction is completed, the Israeli wall will stretch for 750 kilometers – more than four times longer than the Berlin!
And it is being built, according to the Palestinians on those lands that should be included in a future Palestinian state.
In 2004, the International Court of Justice has decided to ban the construction, stating that the wall being built illegally by Israel should be destroyed, because it comes to the occupied territory.
According to the report of the coalition of Palestinian non-profit organization “Stop the Wall”, in 2007 alone, Israel has destroyed over 160 houses and confiscated more than 3 sq km of the Palestinian West Bank under construction of the separation wall.
