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Palestinians protest land seizure
West Bank residents staging non-violent march are met with tear gas.
Last Modified: 05 Sep 2009 03:54 GMT

Palestinian villagers protest land seizure

Hundreds of Palestinian villagers have made a short but symbolic march to the separation wall that Israel has built on their land, a non-violent protests that they regularly undertake.
 

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  Israeli soldiers fire on Al Jazeera correspondent

Equally, the protesters, marching from the village of Bilin, are regularly met with a violent response from the Israeli army.
 
"The village of Bilin is literally on the frontline of Israel's confiscation of Palestinian land and the construction of its separation barrier," Jacky Rowland, Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from the village, said.
 
"Later today the villagers of Bilin will protest the fact that not only they, but also five neighbouring villages, have lost their land which has been seized to build an Israeli settlement.
 
"This huge settlement will result in 40,000 Jewish settlers living on occupied land here in the West Bank and as Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu is planning to give the go ahead for even more of these settlement homes to be built," she said.
 
Netanyahu is set to approve plans to build hundreds of new homes on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, before considering US demands for a construction freeze.
Source:
Al Jazeera
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