Residents of a number of villages in the Ramallah area organized a protest joined by a number of International and Israeli peace activists at Highway 443, on Friday after the noon prayer.
Protesters carried anti-racism signs and Palestinian flags, and demanded that the Israeli authorities allow them to use this road that passes through the villagers' land.
Troops installed barbed wire in an attempt to prevent the protesters from reaching the highway. However, the villagers insisted and managed to reach the road. Troops fired several rounds of rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas at the protesters, however no injuries were reported.
For seven years in a row, Israel prohibits Palestinians from using this 200-mile road which is built on the land of Palestinian villages, and allows only Jewish settlers to use it.
This is Israeli racism at its finest.
Palestinians from the village of Bil'in, near Ramallah in the central West Bank, along with their international and Israeli supporters conducted their weekly protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall on Friday midday.
Shortly after the midday Friday prayers, villagers and their Israeli and international supporters marched towards the location of the illegal wall built on the village's land.
The Israeli army installed a barbed-wire roadblock to try and prevent the protesters reaching the construction site.
As soon as the demonstration reached the roadblock troops showered the protesters with tear gas and metal rubber coated bullets. Three protesters were injured by the rubber-coated bullets.
Among the internationals who participated in this week's Bil'in anti wall protest were representative of the Norwegian Socialist Youth, a youth movement from the Socialist party in Norway. Most of the Norwegians were from the city of Turnham, which was the first city in the world that boycotted the South African Apartheid regime in the 1980s.
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