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Title: In pictures: When a non-violent protest ends in death
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aljazeera.com
URL Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe ... 1/12/20111210155456690198.html
Published: Dec 12, 2011
Author: Lazar Simeonov and Renee Lewis
Post Date: 2011-12-12 10:22:55 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 2929
Comments: 4
Palestinian villager killed after being shot in the face with a tear gas canister by an Israeli soldier at close range. Nabi Saleh, a small village of about 550 people, 20 km northwest of Ramallah in the West Bank, has been organising non-violent protests against land theft since 2009. On December 9, 2011, the Friday demonstration began as it always did: villagers, international and Israeli activists gathered in the centre of the village and marched towards land usurped by the Israeli settlement of Halamish. Soon after, the Israeli military drove to the entrance of the village in jeeps and began firing teargas at the protesters. Mustafa Tamimi, 28, was protesting with other young men from the village. As the jeeps stopped to let a bulldozer clear rocks that had been placed in the road to prevent their entrance, Tamimi and a few others moved closer to throw stones in a symbolic gesture against occupation. An Israeli soldier opened his door, aimed his gun and shot Tamimi directly in the face with an "extended range" teargas canister; he was shot from a distance of less than 10 metres, according to witnesses. Tamimi died from his injuries. Some experts trace conflict in the area back to 1976, when the illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish (or Neveh Tzuf) was established on land belonging to Nabi Saleh. Since then, the settlement has continued to grow and expand. In 2008, residents of the village challenged the construction of a fence by Israeli settlers on private Palestinian land. When the case was brought to Israeli court, it was decided that the fence must be removed. However, like many Israeli court rulings on Palestinian grievances, it was not upheld "on the ground" and the settlement continued to illegally annex Palestinian land. Soon after, settlers seized control of several springs which were all located on land belonging to Nabi Saleh residents. Today, around 13 per cent of the villagers has been arrested by Israeli authorities for participating in the demonstrations - including 29 children and four women. Recently, two prominent leaders of the non-violent struggle, Naji Tamimi and Bassem Tamimi, were arrested and remain prisoners in Israel. They are charged with "incitement" and organising "illegal" demonstrations. 
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#2. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
he was shot from a distance of less than 10 metres, according to witnesses Must be true, if you can trust Hamas "witnesses" and al Jazeera, who can you trust?
#4. To: Happy Quanzaa (#2)
Coming from a person who routinely changes elements of the stories he or she posts, this means nothing.
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