Bil'in Protests Against CRH 30 -04-2010 By Haitham Al Katib

April 30, 2010
Todays demonstration began with speeches in honor of International Workers Day by the Union of Palestine Workers, after which the crowd processed to the Wall. After several minutes, soldiers fired the first rounds of tear gas into the crowd, and continued to launch tear gas deep into the protestors route. Soldiers aggressively entered the village in waves in an effort to make arrests.

Four people were arrested today, including a female journalist and an international activist. Prior to the demonstration, two Israeli activists broached the Wall and attempted to post flyers calling for the arrest of the soldier who shot Imad Rizka in the forehead at last Fridays demonstration. When soldiers approached them, they moved away, and soldiers instead arrested two Al-Jazeera cameramen who were sitting in a car by the Wall.

Injuries this week consisted of a girl who was struck from behind with a tear gas canister. Cameraman Haitham al-Khatib was also hit in his stomach by a canister. The international activist who was arrested was treated roughly by the soldiers, who ripped off his gas mask, threw him to the ground, resulting in a 3-inch gash to his right leg and the loss of a piece of his left ear in the process.

Todays demonstration was held in solidarity with the actions of IPSC the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign which is organizing major demonstrations this week against the Irish multinational company CRH. CRH acquired a 25% shareholding in the Israeli group Mashav Initiating and Development Ltd, which is the holding company for Nesher Cement. Nesher is the sole Israeli cement Israel, to coincide with the CRH annual general meeting that will take place on company, meaning it supplies cement and building materials for the ongoing construction of the illegal Separation Wall, the Wednesday, May 5. Jerusalem Light Railway project, the illegal colonial settlements and the network of apartheid settler-only roads, underpasses, bridges and tunnels in occupied Palestine.
Demonstrators in todays procession carried signs calling for CRH divestment from Mashav.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Bil'in
• CRH
• Cement Roadstone Holdings
• Tommy Donnellan
• Apartheid Wall
• Nesher Cement
• CRH AGM

[zorgi1000]

חחחח בול פגיעה

[bwanjep9]

The Israeli army is out of control.

There are no weapons in the hands of the Palestinians, so chill out guys!!!

Look at you - behaving as if you were under threat while YOU are the aggressor!