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Resistance to the Colonial Occupation of Palestine continues

by MH.
Israeli Military and Police Shoots Human Right Protesters, While Defending Racist March
In the last four days resistant to colonial occupation in Palestine continued. On Friday, March 20th, the weekly protest against the wall in Ni'ilin included a march that chanted against the occupation and in support of injured ISM activist and Indybay reporter Tristan Anderson. 6 people were injured one of them critically. Soldiers occupied a house in the village and shot at people in the street. Extended-range tear gas canisters of the type that injured Tristan were again used, but aimed mostly at Palestinians and not at internationals and Israelis. This led some to suspect that once again in the eyes of the Israeli government and the corporate media, the lives of Palestinians worth less. In the last year dozens of Palestinians were killed and injured demonstrating the apartheid wall.

On Monday, Israeli police violently shut down an event held in conjunction with the Jerusalem Capital of Arab Culture festival in Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem. The event, celebrated throughout the occupied West Bank, marked Jerusalem as the Cultural Capital of the Arab World for the year 2009. On the day of the event, the Israeli police, assisted by the Border Patrol, disrupted a march of school kids, and brook into a schoolyard to burst balloons in the color of the Palestinian flag. At least eleven people, including an American and a Danish solidarity activist, were arrested. A Palestinian woman was thrown into a police car with severe bleeding to her head and nose after being roughly handled by police.

On Tuesday, March 24, members of the outlawed Kahana movement, marched adjacent to the streets of Umm el Fahm. The Kahana movement, an outlawed political party in Israel who vocally advocates the explosion and extermination of all Palestinians living in Israel, has been attempting for years to organize marches in Palestinian villages. While marching, protected by thousands of Israeli soldiers and Police, the group was met with stones and protesters. When the Kahana march concluded, the Israeli Army remained in Umm el Fahm, shooting tear gas and sound grenades at protesters, residents, and homes. Fifteen protesters were arrested. After the demonstration concluded, the city of Umm el Fahm released a statement commenting on the day's events: "responding to a decision by the Israeli establishment to allow a protest that its sole propose was to skirmish the community of Umm el Fhem, the residents of our town, the Arab community, and Israeli peace activists have managed together to stop the fascists and racists. We hope that this kind of incident will not spread and that Kahana members will not become a tool by the government to achieve secret planes for Umm el Fahm and to the area." Reporting from Umm el Fahm, Hannah Mozy gives her first hand account of the demonstrations, and corporate media representation of the Kahana march.
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