Zionist Forces Injure Dozens of Palestinians
The demonstrations were held in the villages of Bil’in, al-Masara and Nabi Saleh on Friday in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners who are on a hunger strike in Israeli prisons.
The protesters condemned Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the construction of settlements and the apartheid wall in the Palestinian territory.
Israeli forces used rubber-coated steel bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas to disperse demonstrators.
International activists were among the protesters, including the parents of slain American activist Rachel Corrie.
Corrie was killed by an Israeli military bulldozer while trying to protect a Palestinian home from being demolished in the Gaza Strip in 2003.
On Wednesday, Corrie family appealed to Israel’s Supreme Court after a lower court in 2012 refused to hold the Israeli military accountable for the killing.
The lower court cleared the military from all wrongdoings. The Israeli military claims the driver of the bulldozer could not have seen Rachel, although she was dressed in fluorescent orange vest at the time of the fatal incident.
The death has inspired many international rights activists to go to Gaza.
Meanwhile, over 5,000 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons on Thursday launched a hunger strike in solidarity with another group of Palestinian detainees who have been on hunger strike for nearly a month.
The Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs said the solidarity strike is a move to pressure the Israeli regime to comply with the demands of the 100 Palestinian detainees who have been on hunger strike to protest their “administrative detention.”
Administrative detention is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows Israel to imprison Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order can, however, be renewed for an indefinite period of time.
Palestinian prisoner human rights organization Addameer estimates that around 183 Palestinians are currently being held in administrative detention.
Source: Press TV
