18 July 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the West Bank village of Bil’in village, died of cardiac arrest caused by inhalation of excessive amounts of tear gas. The Israeli High Court laid the onus of ...
Read More »More deaths and injuries from US tear gas in Palestine, around the Middle East, and in Oakland
15 January 2012 | Adalah-NY US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and Nonlethal Technologies, continues to be used by governments including Egypt, Israel, Yemen, Bahrain and the United States to repress popular protest movements for social ...
Read More »Ashraf Abu Rahmah, brother of two Bil’in casualties, arrested during protest
22 October 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Ashraf Abu Rahma, brother of Bassem and Jawaher Abu Rahma who were killed by the Israeli army in Bil’in is falsely accused of stone-throwing and was sent to Ofer Prison. Ashraf himself was shot in the ...
Read More »Bil’in: A village in mourning
9 January 2011 | Al Jazeera, Renee Lewis One West Bank family has paid the highest price for their village’s peaceful pursuit of justice. People say that time heals, but the Abu Rahmah family feels as though it is living ...
Read More »“Gas won’t tear us apart”: a return to Bil’in
8 January 2010 | +972 Magazine, Joseph Dana Hundreds march in Bil’in to commemorate Jawaher Abu Rahmah, the 36-year-old woman who was killed last week in an unarmed demonstration against the separation wall. The former vice president of the European ...
Read More »Tell Combined Systems Inc. to Stop Providing Tear Gas that Israel Uses to Kill and Maim Protesters
CLICK HERE TO SEND AN E-MAIL TO COMBINED SYSTEMS INC. On January 1, 2011, 36-year-old Palestinian Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the West Bank village of Bil’in died at a hospital from the effects of tear gas inhalation suffered at a ...
Read More »Substantial evidence contradicts the army’s version of the events surrounding the death of Jawaher Abu Rahmah
4 January 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The evidence surrounding the events leading to the death of Bil’in resident Jawaher Abu Rahmah disproves completely the army spokesperson’s version, to the point of putting the army in a ridiculous light. ...
Read More »Demonstrators ‘return’ tear gas canisters to US ambassador’s home
2 January 2011 | +972 Magazine Israeli activists protesting the killing of Bil’in’s Jawaher Abu Rahmah ‘returned’ spent tear gas canisters to the residence of the American ambassador to Israel late Saturday evening. Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to ...
Read More »Israeli forces kill woman in Bil’in
1 January 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Doctors at the Ramallah hospital fought for Jawaher Abu Rahmah’s life all night at the Ramallah Hospital, but were unable to save her life. Abu Rahmah suffered from severe asphyxiation caused by ...
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