The demonstration included internationals and Israeli activist. Membrs of the Peoples' Struggle Front also joined the protest today and carried banners. Today’s theme was the Iraqi journalist and the shoes he threw at outgoing US President George W Bush. Demonstrators carried shoes along with damning pictures and words of Bush and his allies Olmert, Barak and Sharon.
Beginning in the village of Bil’in, the march moved through the streets, and the demonstrators rang out chants rejecting US foreign policy and life under Israeli occupation. When the group of demonstrators and Palestinians turned toward the apratheid wall, in an attempt to cross into Palestinian land, Israeli soldiers waited behind concrete blocks.
From there the soldiers began firing tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets. Demonstrators responded to these attacks by throwing their shoes at the army. Dozens of people suffered injuries from the gas while eight were shot. Two journalists were hit, including WAFA photographer Issam Arrimawi. Also, among the wounded from the bullets was a 15-year-old Palestinian child who is currently receiving treatment in Ramallah’s Sheikh Zaid Hospital.