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March 30, 2009

Israeli Troops Shoot at West Bank Protesters
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In the occupied West Bank, Israeli troops fired tear gas and rubber
bullets on Friday at a crowd of Palestinians protesting the construction
of the separation wall in the town of Bilin. Reuters video showed an
Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian demonstrator with a rubber-coated
bullet at point-blank range, injuring his leg. Palestinian legislator
Mustafa Barghouti attended the demonstration and said the new Israeli
government will further damage the lives of the Palestinians.

Mustafa Barghouti: “The only thing that the new Israeli government is
bringing is more settlement, more land confiscation, more
discrimination, more apartheid and more building of this wall that is
killing the lives of the Palestinians and destroying the option of peace
based on two-state solution.”



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