Tag: Rubber-coated steel bullets
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Nabi Saleh: Israeli Soldiers Shoot 15 year old in the face with rubber coated steel bullet
by Jonathan Pollack 23 March 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The bullet shot from a short distance hit the boy in the face penetrating his right cheek and piercing it. Israeli Border Police officers shot a rubber-coated bullet at 15 year-old Ezz Tamimi’s face from a distance of about 20 meters, during the weekly…
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Awaiting release and hearings of local activists, Kufr Qaddoum met with more Israeli violence
by Robin and Leila 23 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank It was under a bright, sunny sky that the people of Kufr Qaddoum once again gathered to protest against the roadblock which isolates them from the rest of the West Bank. The past week there had been much frustration and anger since Murad Ashtawi, member…
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When teargas and rubber bullets are not enough: Israeli soldiers release the hounds on unarmed Palestinian protesters
17 March 2012 | Ni’lin Village In Kufur Qaddoum, clashes between Israeli Border Police officers who shot tear-gas projectiles and rubber-coated bullets and local youth who threw stones at the forces developed. Roughly 15 minutes later – in a scene that seemed as if it was taking place in the American South of the…
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Introducing Bil’in: The ritual of resistance and oppression
by Sophie Van Dijk 2 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Today we went to Bil’in, a small village 17 km from Ramallah. For decades it has been harassed by the Israeli army. When the Apartheid Wall was constructed, it separated the farmers from their land. Seven years ago, the villagers succeeded in moving…
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Clashes and arrests in the town of Tur
by Asmaa Thaher 28 February 2012 | Jerusalem Center for Media Broke out this evening clashes in the town of Tur East Jerusalem and the occupation forces arrested two young men from the region. Our correspondent said that the clashes broke out near Al-Maqased hospital and Tur club down to the Sawwanah neighborhood crossroads. He…