Palestine News Network (PNN) : "Weekly nonviolent demonstration memorializes late leftist leader eight years after assassination"

                                                                                              

Weekly nonviolent demonstration memorializes late leftist leader eight years after assassination

29.08.09 - 12:14

Ramallah / PNN -
The weekly nonviolent demonstration against the Wall and settlements in Bil’in Village on Friday was dedicated to the eighth memorial of the 2001 assassination of leftist leader Abu Ali Mustafa.

The leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was killed when Israeli forces fired two missiles from an Apache helicopter into his office.

The local PFLP was joined at this week’s demonstration by members coming from the nearby city of Ramallah and from as far away as Lebanon and Syria.

Several demonstrators, including a 10 year old girl, had to be rescued by ambulance and provided oxygen due to heavy gas.

As the protesters reached the Wall, Israeli activists had joined them. Dressed as construction workers with yellow helmets, they held road signs reading "Illegal Wall ahead", "Wall Removal in Progress", and "Construction work Ahead", and cordoned off the barbed-wire fence and gate inside the Wall. One of the activists hit the steel fence with a huge hammer in a symbolic action of destroying it.
As several people, among them officials Khalida Jarrar, Qais Abu Laila, and other leaders of the PFLP, addressed the occupation forces through the megaphone soldiers fired multiple gas cannon very early on. The "bad smell" truck arrived soon thereafter effectively dispersing the protesters closest to the Wall by spraying a rancid water mixture. Gas continued to be shot from two directions causing many people acute respiratory problems. Ambulances were again in action.

Suddenly one shot of live ammunition was fired into the air but no one was shot directly.  

The “Elders”, Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, had visited the Wall in Bil’in the day before.

 


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