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11.05.09

West Bank, achter het nieuws

Wanneer u goed kijkt ziet u misschien Joël Voordewind van de ChristenUnie ergens in zijn gepantserde auto van “het Heilige Land” genieten.


Israeli forces carry a handcuffed peace activist following a demonstration against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Maasarah near Bethlehem on May 8, 2009. Dozens of Palestinian and foreign activists sporting protective face masks demonstrated against the “occupation flu” from Israel they claimed is worse than swine flu.


A Palestinian demonstrator tries to protect his face from tear gas fired by Israeli forces during clashes following a demonstration against Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, on May 8, 2009.


A Palestinian protester overcome by tear gas fired by Israeli security forces is carried away during a protest against the construction of the controversial Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah May 8, 2009.


A Palestinian boy pushes an Israeli soldier during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Maasarah near Bethlehem on May 8, 2009.


An Israeli settler clashes with an Israeli left wing activist during a demonstration against settlements in the West Bank town of Hebron on May 8, 2009. Tens of Israeli left wing activists and Palestinian land owners demonstrated against the settlers of Kharsina settlement in Hebron after they built wooden rooms on Palestinian land. Israeli settlements on occupied land are viewed as one of the main stumbling blocks in the Middle East peace process and Israel’s main ally Washington has on numerous occasions spoken out against the continued expansion.


Palestinian demonstrators use home-made shields to protect themselves from flying tear gas canisters fired by Israeli troops during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, May 8, 2009.


Armed Jewish settlers walk in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Hagai after a Palestinian who infiltrated the settlement was killed by settlers Friday, April 17, 2009.


Palestinians take part in a protest in the West Bank city of Nablus April 16, 2009, calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. On Friday, Palestinians mark the Palestinian Prisoners Day.


The brothers (2nd L and C) of Hammam Naseredin mourn near his body during his funeral in the West Bank city of Hebron May 7, 2009. Israeli troops killed an unarmed Palestinian, Naseredin, at the entrance to a contested biblical shrine in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, a military spokesman said. The Palestinian drew the attention of paramilitary policemen guarding the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron by trying to avoid a security checkpoint at the entrance, he said.


A female Palestinian protester takes cover as Israeli security forces (not seen) fire tear gas and rubber coated bullets during a violent protest against the construction of the controversial Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah May 1, 2009.


Palestinian men sit on the ground after being arrest by Israeli border police and policemen during a rally against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Maasarah near Bethlehem, Friday, May 1, 2009.


sraeli troops guard a Jewish settler at a recently constructed outpost during a protest by Palestinian and Israeli peace activists who said the building was illegal, in the West Bank city of Hebron, April 25, 2009.


Israeli soldiers stand guard while a bulldozer clears the ground to expand the Israeli settlement of Carmel (top), south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank on April 26, 2009.


Palestinian and foreign peace activists try to take cover as Israeli troops fire tear gas at them during a protest against Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, on April 24, 2009.


A Palestinian youth mourns over the body of Bassam Ibrahim, a fellow protester shot dead by Israeli forces on April 17, 2009, at a hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Ibrahim, aged about 30, was shot dead by Israeli forces during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank against Israel’s separation barrier, a military spokeswoman said. The pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement said the man was hit by a high-velocity teargas projectile and was the 18th person to be killed during a demonstration against the controversial barrier.


Palestinians carry an injured man during a clash with Jewish settlers after the settlers rampaged through the West Bank village of Safa near Hebron April 8, 2009. Dozens of Israelis from a Jewish settlement where a Palestinian killed a youth last week rampaged on Wednesday through the West Bank Arab village, smashing car windows and damaging homes, residents and medics said.


An injured Palestinian man is taken away in a car after he was shot by Israeli soldiers during a protest in the village of Safa near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bat Ayin, Wednesday, April 8, 2009.


A Palestinian woman carries a national flag behind barbed at the spot where Israel is building its controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, during a protest against the wall on April 24, 2009.

 

 

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