Bethlehem, 18-07-08 – On Friday the 18th of July, the peaceful weekly march against the apartheid Wall held in the town of El Masara, South of Bethlehem, was intercepted immediately after the participants reached the new section of the Wall, by a huge amount of Israeli occupation forces. The IOF prevented the peaceful demonstration and attacked the participants by using sound grenades and sticks. Clashes took place between the demonstrators and the soldiers.
The spoke person of the media campaign for the popular resistance against the Wall in the Governorate of Bethlehem, Mohammed Barijya, stated that “the barbaric policy made of occupation and repression will not discourage our people to keep on the popular resistance” and called for the recognition of the rights “of people who refused to surrender and to live as slaves 60 years ago.”
Mohamed Aouda, the Secretary of Palestinian National Initiative in Bethlehem thanked a group of international people for showing their solidarity to the people of Bethleem and stressed on the idea that massive popular struggle is now necessary in this stage of the early building of a new section of the Wall to defeat the occupation. Aouda called for solidarity, stressing that popular resistance has to still over into every villages and towns in
“Weekly peaceful marches against the apartheid Wall will keep on expanding, despite the Israeli violence shown during the on demonstrations”, said Mazen El Azza, the coordinator of the campaign for the popular resistance against the Wall in the governorate of Bethleem.
He called the international community to launch a broad international solidarity campaign to support