Tag: Demonstration

  • Judge Advocate General to B’Tselem: 0.22-caliber bullets are not crowd-control measures

    B’Tselem 9 July 2009 The army does not classify 0.22 inch caliber bullets as a means to disperse demonstrators or quell disturbances, the Israeli Military’s Judge Advocate General, Brig. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, informed B’Tselem. Since the end of 2008, security forces in the West Bank have used 0.22-caliber bullets as an additional means, along with…

  • IDF’s JAG says .22-caliber rounds should not be used to disperse protesters

    Amos Harel | Ha’aretz 12 July 2009 The army does not classify .22-inch caliber bullets as a suitable means to disperse demonstrators, the judge advocate general, Brig.-Gen. Avichai Mendelblit, told the human rights group B’Tselem yesterday. According to the organization, the use of .22-caliber bullets resulted in the death of at least two unarmed Palestinians.…

  • Physicians for Human Rights Israel, mobile clinic in Bil’in

    Bil’in Popular Committee 11 July 2009 Today, July 11th, Physicians For Human Rights Israel came to visit the Palestinian village of Bil’in. Volunteer doctors, nurses, paramedics, optometrists, pharmacists, psychologists and translators came to Bil’in with the mobile clinic to offer their support to the community. At their arrival, PHR Israel was warmly welcomed by the…