The cold and stormy weather did not deter the people of An Nabi Salih from coming out to demonstrate the theft of their lands Friday. As one of the organizers put it, "I prefer the rain to the tear gas". As it turned out, he got both.
Like previous weeks the small village was joined by many supporters from outside. In particular, dozens of young men from Beit Rima walked about 5 km in the intermittent rain to join the demonstration.
an Nabi Saleh, 5.2.10

The March started as it has every week for the past month by heading to the village lands near the settlement of Halamish. Unlike last week the soldiers did not surround the village before the start of the demonstration and for a moment it seemed as if it would be possible to march to the lands. However, as the people started down the hill towards the lands several army jeeps arrived on the access road to the village and started shooting tear gas from above. That set the pattern for the next 4 hours as the army continued to shoot tear gas and rubber and plastic coated metal bullets at the crowd.
Dozens of injuries were suffered by demonstrators, mostly from plastic coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters shot directly at demonstrators. One young man who was hit by two plastic coated metal bullets lost sensation in his lower leg and had to be evacuated to hospital. He later made a full recovery and will surely be back to demonstrate next week.

At the weekly demonstration in Ma'asara approximately 25 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists gathered in protest against the building of the Apartheid Wall. Due to the rain and cold demonstrators took car rides to the regular blockade in the entrance to the village in, where they were met by a unit of reserve soldiers combined with a regular squad and 7 military jeeps, who welcomed the demonstration with a touch of cynicism. However, several soldier fingers were lifted in what looked like support when singing broke out and speeches carried in Arabic and Hebrew. The demonstration ended peacefully after half an hour.

Little under 20 Israelis and 10 internationals joined a select bunch of Palestinians for the local weekly demonstration against the land annexation wall in Bil'in. The rain ceded, the clouds let a few rays of sun through, the almond trees were at full bloom, but that's as optimistic as it got. The demonstrators reached the fence gate, the army shot tear gas, the village youth tried to disperse the army with stones, and soon enough the demonstration was declared over. It was only after the last of the youngsters was already far along on the road leading back to the village that the army decided to invade, just to show they can. They did their show off excursion into the village, throwing gas and sound bombs directly at demonstrators' feet, and made a point of calling the demonstrators "Nazis". It did seem, however, that even some of the soldiers realized how stupid their commander's orders were, or so it seemed to some optimistic spectators.

In a smaller than usual demonstration in Ni'ilin, some 50 demonstrators marched through a muddy agricultural road to a gate in the wall. The demonstrators chanted and called slogans against the wall, and the massive oppression against the village youth manifested in dozens of arrests. As the demonstrators closed the heavy gate the soldiers started shooting tear gas & stun grenades. Some of the village youth retaliated with stones, and the confrontations went on for half an hour before the demonstration ended.

Sheikh Jarrah demonstration

Later that day Sheikh Jarrah demonstrators proved water-proof as more than a hundred of them gathered in the park near the neighborhood for nearly two hours of singing and drumming in the pouring rain and Jerusalem cold. For the second week in a row the police excelled in uncommon calm, and no arrests nor provocation were made towards the demonstrators. However, entrance to the neighborhood itself was still allowed only to Jewish settlers, and a small group of children and clowns carrying balloons was turned back at the improvised riot police checkpoint. Demonstrators still kept their spirits up, danced around and eventually ended the demonstration – only to move on to a nightly fundraising party for the struggle, which took place in West Jerusalem.