Tag: Demonstration
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Dozens were suffocated by tear gas canisters at the weekly demonstration
Bil’in Popular Committee 18 September 2009 Dozens were suffocated with tear gas canisters at the weekly demonstration in Bil’in. As the people of Bil’in with international and Israeli peace activists participated in Bil’in’s weekly demonstration after Friday prayers today, although they have raised Palestinian flags and banners to mark the twenty-seventh anniversary of the massacre…
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Border Control / Better late than never?
Akiva Eldar | Ha’aretz 16 September 2009 A little over four years ago, when Kadima’s Ze’ev Boim was deputy defense minister in the Likud government, he launched a huge attack on Col. (res.) Shaul Arieli and his colleagues from the council for peace and security. These people, he said, make the saying “Those who destroy…
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Oakland man to sue for injury in Israel protest
Bob Egelko | The San Francisco Chronicle 14 September 2009 An Oakland man who was seriously wounded by a tear gas projectile fired by Israeli police during a West Bank protest will file suit despite a military report concluding that he was engaged in an “act of war,” his lawyers said Sunday. The case of…