Tag: Tear-Gas Canister

  • 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 tear-gas inhalation yesterday in Bil’in, and was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital unconscious. She was…

  • IDF resumes use of prohibited tear gas canisters

    8 December 2010 | Ha’aretz, Chaim Levinson   The canisters, which are used to disperse demonstrations in the West Bank, have been responsible for serious injuries and at least one death Israel Defense Forces soldiers recently resumed the use of prohibited tear gas canisters to disperse demonstrations in the West Bank. These tear gas grenades,…

  • High-velocity tear gas canisters and skunk water used in assault on Nabi Saleh demonstration; 18-year-old to undergo surgery

    High-velocity tear gas canisters and skunk water used in assault on Nabi Saleh demonstration; 18-year-old to undergo surgery

    20 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Yesterday, 19th November, the weekly demonstration in An Nabi Saleh was again met by violent opposition from the Israeli Army. One young villager is scheduled to undergo surgery to insert a platinum implant in his leg where the bone was crushed from the impact of a high-velocity tear…

  • Weekly Demonstration Report — High Velocity Tear Gas Canisters used in an Nabi Saleh

    14 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Al Nabi Saleh demonstrators assaulted with high velocity tear gas canisters and rubber bullets The weekly demonstration at Al Nabih Saleh took place again this Friday, one day after the six year anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death. One young boy was shot in the hand with a rubber…

  • Weekly Demonstrations: Friday, 29 October 2010

    29 October, 2010 | International Solidarity Movement 22 people injured, 5 still in hospital, at increasingly violent An Nabi Saleh Demonstration by Henni Many shebab, two journalists and a girl were injured on Friday at the weekly demonstration in An Nabi Saleh. Villagers had employed a new strategy in response to the increasing violence of…