Some 50 protesters, who responded to a call by the Budrus Popular Committee, marched on the quarry to protest the theaft of natural resources. The said quarry, which is owned by a former officer in the Israeli Civil Administration, lies on lands belonging to the village's of Shuqba, Qibya, Shibtin, Ni'ilin and Budrus.

Despite the entirely peacful nature of the demonstration, fire was quick to be shot. As soon as the quarry's security guards noticed the procession, form a distance of about 200 meters, they opened fire with live ammunition. Initially, the guards fired a vollies of bullets in the air, which caught the protestes by surprise and caused them to freeze in their place. Some laid down on the ground, while other stood up and shouted at the guards in Hebrew calling on them to stop shooting. In response, the guards took aim, and started shooting directly towrds people.

When the protesters realized they are acctually being shot at, they started running away, which did not bring the guards to stop shooting. As the bullets riddled the ground, one demonstrator, a 47 year-old construction worker from the village of Budrus was hit with a shrapnell in his left eyebrow.

Soon after, three military jeeps arrived to the scene, ordered the people to disperse throuh one of the jeeps' loudspeakers, saying that "Demonstrations are prohibited by law". Tear-gas fired by the soldiers set fire to the fields, damading a number of olive trees.