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Friday protests in the West Bank in support of Palestinian prisoners Haithm Katib, May 12, 2012
Weekly demonstrations continued in Bil'in village West of Ramallah. Many citizens and foreign activists suffered from cases of suffocation by poison gas during the weekly march organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil'in. Many local, foreign and Israeli activists came to show solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike and to support Palestinian prisoner Bilal Diab and Thaer Hlahalh for entering the day 75 of the open hunger strike by participating in the march called by the People's Committee, and the people of Bil'in and in solidarity.