October 17, 2008

In the West Bank, the IDF fires rubbercoated steel bullets, tear gas, percussion grenades at Palestinian, Israeli, international peace activists taking part in a nonviolent demonstration against the separation wall in Bil‘in (10s suffer tear gas inhalation); fires rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas at Palestinian, Israeli, international peace activists taking part in a similar nonviolent demonstration in Ni‘lin (injuring 13, including 2 children ages 7 and 12); conducts latenight arrest raids, house searches in al-Fawar r.c., nr. Hebron. (OCHA 10/22; PCHR 10/23)