What you don’t see on CNN: IOF Shoot Live Ammunition on Peaceful Protest
By Haitham Sabbah • Jun 14th, 2008 at 8:55 • Category: Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, VideoWarning: Parental Guidance Suggested!
June 13 2008 - A young man from Bilin was shot with live rounds during the weekly Bilin Protest. Ibrahim Burnat who was shot in his right thigh was taken directly to Sheik Zaid Hospital in Ramallah and was described by doctors as being in critical condition. Ibrahim posed no threat to Israeli soldiers who shot him with live rounds simply for attempting to scale the Apartheid Wall as a symbolic gesture against the ongoing illegal occupation.
Here is the video:
Spread the word. Get the code from here:
- http://blip.tv/file/992275
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF1ibN40FJE (God knows how long it will stay on YouTube before some Zionist flag it to be removed like the previous video)
- http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ruot_iof-shoot-live-ammunition-on-peacef_news
The protesters were shot with tear gas, rubber coated steel bullets, and finally live ammunition as the protest wound down.
One Israeli activist was wounded and another more seriously injured from rubber coated steal bullets. In addition dozens were treated for tear gas inhalation.
Locals where joined by international activists this week to protest against the apartheid wall and the expansion of Israeli settlements. The weekly protesters raised the Palestinian flag and slogans against the occupation. The signs demanded the dismantling of the Apartheid Wall, land confiscation, and the expansion of Israeli Settlements.
The protesters also demanded an end to Israel’s killing of unarmed Palestinian civilians, the closure of roads in the West Bank, and large scale imprisonment as a form of collective punishment.
In other news, earlier this week the Israel Occupation Army arrested Bil’in resident Ashraf Mohammed Al-Jamal Tafwik Al-Khatib. Ashraf was passing through one of the many checkpoints on his way to work in Jericho when he was arrested. No reason was given for his arrest.
Ashraf was active in the weekly Bi’in peaceful protests and villagers believe this was the reason he was targeted, in a continued effort by the army to silence the people of Bilin. The Occupation Army had previously harassed Ashraf and his family by making unwanted visits to his family’s home in previous failed attempts at arresting him.
(Source: http://www.palsolidarity.org Via: Sabbah’s Blog)
Haitham Sabbah is an uprooted Palestinian blogger. Webmaster of Palestine Blogs and Palestine Think Tank. His personal blog is http://sabbah.biz/
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More on Bil’in:
from an email received June 14, 2008:
“Ibrahim, Wageeh’s 26 years old son was shot with live ammo in the thigh yesterday during the demo, and was evacuated to the hospital in critical condition due to massive blood loss. The bullets, apparently 3, who pierced through his leg ripped an artery, a vein and cause some yet uncertain nerve damage. After being operated on for about three or four hours, Ibrahim was moved back into the intensive care unit at Sheikh Zeid hospital. It is still uncertain if he will be able to walk on the leg again.”
MORE on Bil’in WAWA Blog June 13, 2008:
The Beat from Bil’in and Belfast UPDATE 9:30 PM EST and June 14 @ 8AM
http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=935&Itemid=201
This true evidence of Israeli terrorism projected on innocent people. There should be a website called Palestine-tube, where all terrorism from Israel (the illegal state) should be uploaded for everyone.
Israel is made up of two realities:
1. Support from America
2. Nuclear weapon.
If point 1 fades, and America is no longer a superpower (which seems to be the case in the near future) then Israel can only depend on point 2. But if another Muslim country obtains Nuclear weapons then no doubt Israel is in big trouble, where the only escape is either the ocean or Europe, but neither would have them.