Israeli Military Fires on Media Crew in West Bank (VIDEO)

Israeli forces terrorize peaceful Palestinian protesters who decry the theft of their land by Israeli settlers.

Courtesy: Al Jazeera

(BILIN, Occupied Palestine) - Al Jazeera Correspondent Jacky Rowland was fired on today by Israeli soldiers while covering protests at an Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank village.

Bilin is an area that the Israeli's have illegally occupied. I was horrified and felt anger surge as this brave journalist and photographer team stood their ground while IDF soldiers lobbed and fired tear gas canisters directly at them. Jacky Rowland had to move to avoid being struck.

The world has to stop the madness taking place in the Occupied territories of Palestine.

Every concession the Israeli's offer is met with reprisals and overreactions. Israel is wrong, they are persecuting people. They are tyrants and the IDF has to be stopped. The United States needs to greatly increase pressure in these areas.

From one of Jacky's reports:

Hundreds of Palestinian villagers have made a short but symbolic march to the separation wall that Israel has built on their land, a non-violent protests that they regularly undertake.

Equally, the protesters, marching from the village of Bilin, are regularly met with a violent response from the Israeli army.

"The village of Bilin is literally on the frontline of Israel's confiscation of Palestinian land and the construction of its separation barrier," Jacky Rowland, Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from the village, said.

"Later today the villagers of Bilin will protest the fact that not only they, but also five neighbouring villages, have lost their land which has been seized to build an Israeli settlement.

"This huge settlement will result in 40,000 Jewish settlers living on occupied land here in the West Bank and as Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu is planning to give the go ahead for even more of these settlement homes to be built," she said.

Netanyahu is set to approve plans to build hundreds of new homes on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, before considering US demands for a construction freeze.

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