Residents of Bil'in were joined by supporters from surrounding villages and representatives of all Palestinian factions, as well as Israeli and international activists, to protest the demolition of the "Bil'in Outpost" last Monday, and to demand the dismantling of the Wall and settlements.

Approximately 250 people joined the demonstration, marching from the center of the village towards to re-routed length of the Wall. Upon viewing the demonstration from a significant distance, the army began shooting large amounts of tear gas canisters at the marching crowd. As the march arrived near the Wall, a small group of demonstrators managed to make their way through the closed gate and reach the seam zone between the three fences surrounding the village. This accomplishment, so to speak, soon enraged the army and led soldiers to add shock grenades to their arsenal of weaponry used against the demonstration.  Eastern winds caused most of the tear gas to travel back to the soldiers post. Then another tactic was used: the "skunk" a fouling smelling water cannon.

A small group of youth threw stones at the soldiers, and clashed erupted apart of the main demonstration, east to the Wall. Some four protesters were injured by tear-gas canisters that hit them directly. During clashes, the army made an incursion into the lands, moving all the way to the old route of the Wall.

The "Bil'in Outpost" was built on December 2005, on lands which were then located between the path of the Wall and the Jewish-only settlement of Modi'in Illit. It was established after the scope of construction in the nearby settlement, illegal even according to Israeli law, was exposed, as was the complicity of the Israeli military in it. 

While Israeli authorities failed to act against the construction of hundreds of residential units in the settlement, built illegally even under Israeli law, the Palestinian "Outpost" was issued a stop-work order by the Israeli Civil Administration merely hours after its construction began. While hundreds of residential units that were illegally built in the adjacent settlement were since whitewashed and retroactively approved, Israeli authorities refused to do so in regards to the Palestinian structure and issued a demolition order. The path of the Wall has since been rerouted, and the structure stood on lands supposedly returned to the villagers, who were outraged by its destruction on Monday.