A new slogan appeared in the protest was "Stop the Occupation flu," chanted by all participants. The action took place Friday against Israeli separation wall that cuts the village off from its land.
"The Occupation flu first infected Palestinians sixty-one years ago. It has caused the deaths of thousands of Palestinians, injured hundreds of thousands and has put millions in prisons, including Israeli prisons but also the prisons created by the wall in the West Bank and the siege on Gaza," protesters shouted from beside the wall.
The Occupation flu, said organizers, has already killed 100 times more than the most recent flu outbreak of H1N1 or swine flu. "It is an epidemic here," one protester said.
Demonstrators called on international health and human rights institutions to intervene in order to save the Palestinian people from the "dangerous disease which is spreading in the region and is threatening the rest of the world."
The Israeli army responded to the demonstration by firing teargas and rubber-coated steal bullets into the crowd, causing eight injuries. Those taken to hospital were:
Abdullah Aburahma,
Fadel Alkhatib,
Adib Aburahma,
Abdullah Yassen,
Ibraheem Burnat,
Mohammed Aburahma,
Mustafa Alkhatib,
Hytham Alkhatib
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