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<p>RAMALLAH (Ma&#8217;an) &#8212; Israeli forces shut down anti-wall protests in villages across the West Bank on Friday.</p>
<p>The Israeli army says the unarmed weekly protests in Palestinian villages are illegal.</p>
<p>Asked why the protests were illegal, an army spokesman said the areas between Israel&#8217;s separation wall and villages Ni&#8217;lin and Bil&#8217;in, near Ramallah, were declared &#8220;closed military zones&#8221; every Friday between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.</p>
<p>Any civilian who entered the area was breaking Israeli law, the army official said,</p>
<p>Palestinians, Israelis and foreign nationals join protests every Friday in villages along Israel&#8217;s separation wall, which runs deep inside the West Bank and confiscates villagers&#8217; land.</p>
<p>The International Court of Justice and Israel&#8217;s Supreme Court have ruled that the route of the wall is illegal under international law.</p>
<p>In Nil&#8217;in, the wall cuts off around one third of the village. On May 20, protesters marked the third anniversary of non-violent protests against the wall. Since 2008, Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians and injured hundreds more at demonstrations in the village.</p>
<p>On Friday, the army installed a checkpoint at the entrance to Ni&#8217;lin, stopping activists from joining the rally. Troops fired tear-gas grenades into fields, setting fire to over 100 olive trees, witnesses said.</p>
<p>At a simultaneous rally in Nabi Saleh, soldiers declared a closed military zone and detained 6 protesters for entering the area and &#8220;hurling rocks&#8221; at forces, an Israeli military spokeswoman said.</p>
<p>In Al-Ma&#8217;sara, south of Bethlehem, more than 30 international activists joined the weekly demonstration against the wall, but Israeli forces shut down the rally.</p>
<p>Popular committee coordinator Mahmud Zawahra said villagers would continue to protest Israel&#8217;s confiscation of their land &#8220;despite Israel&#8217;s suppression.&#8221;</p>
<p>Israeli forces frequently raid villages which participate in non-violent resistance and detain protest organizers and residents, including children.</p>
<p>In Ni&#8217;lin, entering its fourth year of protests, popular committee member Salah Khawaja said that despite Israel&#8217;s military campaign against the village, the demonstrations would continue.</p>
<p>&#8220;We lost five people, 700 have been injured and 150 arrested, many of them children.</p>
<p>&#8220;But we vow to continue and to bring more people to our strategy of non-violent resistance. We saw in Egypt what can be achieved when the people work together,&#8221; Khawaja said.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Universal Declaration of Human Rights</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong></strong><span lang="EN-US">Art  20(1): Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(Not in </span><span class="hash-text"><span lang="EN-US">Palestine</span></span><span lang="EN-US">) </span></p>
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