Sunday, March 15, 2009
Israeli army seriously injure another Nilin peace protester
Well, just as I arrive in Palestine again, the grim news that on Friday the Israeli army seriously injured another peace activist, a 37 year old American called Tristan Anderson. The protests against the daily oppression of the people of Nilin by the proximity of the Wall to their lands have been met with utter brutality from Israeli forces, with a number of Palestinian children and youth being hurt and killed in recent months. At the moment, Anderson's condition is said to be life-threatening, and parts of the frontal lobe of his brain have had to be removed because they had been punctured by bone fragments caused by the force of the tear gas canister he was hit by - a type of canister I've never had the misfortune to encounter in my days with ISM, as it's a new high-velocity one which makes no sound and emits no smoke trail, and is therefore impossible to run away from. Classy one there, IDF.
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