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it has really been a long day of violence here over the west bank, especially where we re at, the kolondia checkpoint. as we look down the battlefield, if you will, you see a number of israeli soldiers up on that perch, trying to drive back the palestinian rock throwers. you also see the palestinian with a large fire there, that s to put up a smoke barrage so the israeli snipers can t see what they re shooting at. this is the palestinians coming to the refugee camp. you can hear the tear gas coming in from the israeli soldiers. the palestinians are here for the nokba day, which translates to the catastrophe, it was 64 years ago. i ll give you a sense of the battle situation out here. this is what the tear gas comes in, one of these grenades fired from an m-16. this is what the palestinians are throwing back, the rocks. one of these rocks hits you in the head or in the arm, thrown by a sling shot, it ....
Could hurt an awful lot and the israelis have been trying to keep things calm as the anger in the west bank continues to heat up. why are you throwing stones? we don t have nothing to do, you know? we don t have guns, anything else. this is my country. i have to keep it safe. reporter: the israelis have know cloud the kolondia checkpoint to suspect a suspicious package put on wall. they think it may be a bomb of some type. there you have the bomb squad robots coming out to inspect it, the robots put what they think is the explosive device into the bulldozer. this is an armoured bulldozer. they feel safe enough having that drive off with this device. in the meantime, of course, the israeli soldiers are still trying to push the palestinians back and keep them from throwing rocks. right now, some of the israeli soldiers are finally able to take a break here from this continual day of rock throwing. you can see all of the rocks that came in on this position, and at one point, we were g ....