Ramallah – Ma‘an – Four Palestinians were injured on Monday as the Israeli military opened fire at a rally protesting the separation wall in the central West Bank village of Ni‘lin west of Ramallah.
Local residents from the village rallied in protest against the Israeli separation wall after Israeli construction companies began to draw the borders for the passage of the separation wall through the village‘s agricultural fields in the south.
According to ‘Ahid Khawaja, coordinator of the popular campaign for countering the separation wall in Ni‘lin, the Israeli authorities handed over warrants, informing the villagers that 2,500 dunums of the village‘s lands will be confiscated. He said there were 5,000 olive trees in the area threatened with confiscation.
"The village possessed 57,000 dunums before 1948, of which 21,000 was confiscated after 1967, and now after the separation wall, only 19,000 will be left," he said.
He also pointed out that a large number of the village‘s residents have emmigrated because of Israeli pressure and unemployment.