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Security forces firing tear gas grenades at protestors in Bi'ilin on Friday. (AP)
Last update - 00:04 09/06/2008
Eight leftists hurt in clash with police at rally against separation fence
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Tags: Bil'in, European Union, IDF 

Eight left-wing activists protesting against the separation fence on Sunday were lightly wounded in clashes with police near the West Bank village of Na'alin.

Witnesses said a combined contingent of Israel Police and Border Police hurled tear gas grenades at a group of over 150 demonstrators who gathered to protest the planned construction of the fence in the area.

According to Channel 2, the Israel Defense Forces maintained that the troops did not use disproportionate force and that they only acted in response to protestors who threw stones at them.
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On Friday, the vice president of the European parliament, an Italian judge and a Northern Irish Nobel Peace prize laureate were among the five people injured at the weekly demonstration against the separation fence in another West Bank town, Bi'ilin.

The three dignitaries - Giulio Toscano, Luisa Morgantini and Mairead Corrigan Maguire - were visiting the Palestinian village as part of a three-day international conference on non-violent resistance, which ended Friday.

The other two casualties in the clashes between protesters and security forces were Palestinians.


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      1.   arrogance 03:31  |  potobac 08/06/08
      2.   Rogue State not looking for Nobel Peace prizes 03:32  |  Labhras 08/06/08
      3.   WHERE were they when sucide bombers got through BEFORE the fence? 03:51  |  PETER SM 08/06/08
      4.   Y-net reports it was a closed military zone 04:24  |  Free Gilad Shalit 08/06/08
      5.   THE"dignitaries"will protest QASSEM launching?NO Uberleft points 05:10  |  PETER SM 08/06/08
      6.   closed military zone 05:28  |  wibism 08/06/08
      7.   Non-Violent Protests? Arafat Was Surely No Ghandi! 06:13  |  Lavi 08/06/08
      8.   Making violent resistance possible 08:10  |  Janice 08/06/08
      9.   closed military zone 08:22  |  rm 08/06/08
      10.   POTOBAC the whole story of what happenned being? 08:54  |  PETER SM 08/06/08
      11.   Israel knows how to make friends and influence people... 09:30  |  Silvienne 08/06/08
      12.   Free Gilat Shalit... 09:33  |  Silvienne 08/06/08
      13.   PETER SM 10:04  |  Fritz 08/06/08
      14.   wibism 10:10  |  saul a. readner 08/06/08
      15.   peter sm no.5 - you asked a good question 10:11  |  saul a. readner 08/06/08
      16.   #15, SILVIENNE AND ISRAELS DEMISE 10:12  |  VIPER 08/06/08
      17.   labhras 10:20  |  saul a. readner 08/06/08
      18.   anti-racist 10:21  |  saul a. readner 08/06/08
      19.   wibism 10:24  |  saul a. readner 08/06/08
      20.   janice 10:27  |  saul a. readner 08/06/08
      21.   silvienne 10:29  |  saul a. readner 08/06/08
      22.   How to win friends and influence people! 10:39  |  jan Jansen 08/06/08
      23.   peter sm 13 10:40  |  potobac 08/06/08
      24.   Another own goal 11:23  |  Nick Ferriman 08/06/08
      25.   International conference on NON-VIOLENT resistance? LOL 11:41  |  Paul Henzen 08/06/08
      26.   Saul Readner 11:50  |  wibism 08/06/08
      27.   # 4 Labhras/Laurel - Mairead didn`t need incident to hate Israel 11:54  |  Paul Henzen 08/06/08
      28.   #25, Jan Jansen... 11:54  |  Silvienne 08/06/08
      29.   #24, saul a reader... 12:03  |  Silvienne 08/06/08
      30.   wibism... 12:08  |  Silvienne 08/06/08
      31.   #27 Ferriman: Don`t Get Too Comfortable As An Armchair Airhead 12:26  |  Lavi 08/06/08
      32.   potobac 12:33  |  ChanahS 08/06/08
      33.   Beat Them Senseless And Expel Them 12:38  |  Yishai Kohen 08/06/08
      34.   jan jansen - what kind of friends are these? 12:39  |  scallywag 08/06/08
      35.   Arrogance, look at map of Middle East. 13:51  |  Jackie 08/06/08
      36.   Yishai Cohen & the moral bankruptcy of Zionism 14:31  |  Mike Friedman 08/06/08
      37.   Lavi - talking nonsense 14:35  |  Sylvie 08/06/08
      38.   #24 nick the fairy man and the "palestinians" 14:57  |  victor hardman 08/06/08
      39.   chanah s 15:47  |  potobac 08/06/08
      40.   jackie 35 15:51  |  potobac 08/06/08
      41.   victor hardman 38 15:54  |  potobac 08/06/08
      42.   Potobac - You`re doing an awful lot of writing 16:27  |  * BEN JABO 08/06/08
      43.   To Lavi from Seattle 17:07  |  Lebanese in Canada 08/06/08
      44.   Potobac: Unsure of What Is Big 17:49  |  Tex 08/06/08
      45.   Arrogance? 18:05  |  msh 08/06/08
      46.   Nick Ferriman 18:34  |  Janice 08/06/08
      47.   #43 Lebanese in Canada 18:37  |  MR 08/06/08
      48.   saul readner 18:48  |  Janice 08/06/08
      49.   #37 Sylvie: Educate Yourself Out Of The "Occupation" 18:55  |  Lavi 08/06/08
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      51.   # 13 Fritz 19:45  |  Guber 08/06/08
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      63.   silvienne no. 29 23:30  |  saul a. readner 08/06/08
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      67.   Mr Olmert ... 23:42  |  Ronnie Numen 08/06/08
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