Tag: Tristan Anderson
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When the pain hits home – Tristan Anderson shot at Palestine wall protest
Stephanie | Infoshop News Oakland, California is ground zero for many members of the Slingshot collective, but on March 13, Oakland felt like a distant outpost, really far away from Ni’ilin, in the West Bank, where our friend Tristan Anderson, who also lives in Oakland, was struck in the forehead and almost killed by a…
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Live from the West Bank, Israel’s repression of Ni’lin
Max Blumenthal 16 May 2009 I have been in the West Bank of Palestine all week filming a video series on the Occupation that I will release in a few days. Yesterday, I traveled to Ni’lin, a town in the West Bank that has been the site of weekly demonstrations against the construction of a…
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State Attorney’s Office to police: forbidden to fire tear-gas canisters directly at demonstrators
B’Tselem 4 May 2009 According to media reports, the State Attorney’s Office has ordered the Police to review its guidelines for dispersing demonstrators. The order comes in the wake of the death of Bassem Abu Rahma, a Palestinian who was demonstrating in Bi’lin, and of injuries suffered by a number of other demonstrators recently. B’Tselem…
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Misuse of firearms suspected in Ni’lin
Aviad Glickman | YNet News 4 May 2009 Deputy State Prosecutor Yehoshua Lamberger has ordered the police to update protocols pertaining to the use of crowd control measures in demonstration dispersals, Ynet learned Monday. The order followed several cases in which demonstrators suffered injuries by gas and smoke grenade fire. The nature of the injuries…
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Police negligent in probing fence protest casualties
Dan Izenberg & Yaakov Katz | The Jerusalem Post 5 May 2009 The death of Palestinian Bassem Ibrahim in Bil’in two-and-a-half weeks ago might have been prevented had the police carried out orders to investigate previous incidents in which protesters against the separation barrier were hurt by grenade canisters, a senior Justice Ministry official told…