Two Killed, 54 Wounded as Israel Cracks Down on Antiwar Protests
Israel Reacts Violently to West Bank Protests
Though most of the Israeli military’s killing these days is focused on the Gaza Strip, the military is also reacting more violently than usual toward West Bank protests, particularly antiwar rallies condemning the Gaza attacks.
Two protesters in the West Bank have been killed over the weekend, including 31-year-old Rushdi Tamimi, who was shot in the back with live ammunition and later died of his injuries. The other slain protester, 22-year-old Hamdi Mohammad Jawwad al-Falah from Hebron, was shot four times by Israeli troops, who claimed he attacked them, and that despite apparently being unarmed he put the troops in “immediate and present danger for their lives.”
54 other protesters were wounded in rallies, mostly shot by rubber bullets or suffering from tear gas inhalation. Though Israel is regularly quick to move against West Bank protests, the intensity of the attacks has surprised many.
Though Israeli forces have arrested many West Bank protest organizers, they will likely be detained without charges, and the bulk of the demonstrators don’t appear to have been accused of any crime, despite being attacked by troops to disperse them.
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Bob
November 19th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
– shot in the back
– unarmed man shot four times
– 54 protesters wounded
– round ups of the protest organizers, who by now are being detained and probably tortured.
Tell me again the difference between Israel and Assad?
byrd_bahls22
November 19th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
American tax dollars hard at "work". I don't know how people can sleep at night.
Eileen Kuch
November 19th, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Make that stolen American tax dollars, taken from domestic use for repairing roads and bridges, to fund Israhell's brutal aggression and occupation instead. No wonder Americans are finally waking up from their long stupor and joining citizens worldwide in demanding the end of this terror state's brutality
Chris Randolph
November 19th, 2012 at 11:48 pm
This from what we're told is the region's only "democracy."
Victory to the Palestinians!
Rich
November 20th, 2012 at 4:58 am
Well, that doesn't seem very democratic from the only "democracy" in the Middle East!
henry
November 20th, 2012 at 7:45 am
One can see it over and over again Israel is using the so called holocaust to make western countriel let them do what they like. have a holocaust for arabs. steal the land and when they fight back call them terrorists. how Israel can get away with that is beond me. when this ends Israel will be back to the same thing stealind more land and nobody will say anything
JoaoAlfaiate
November 20th, 2012 at 8:21 am
Bye, bye Abbas!
carl
November 20th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Who doesn't hate the fucking Israelis? Greased palms.
Tonyandoc
November 20th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
More or less what you'd expect when the NYPD sets up shop in Tel Aviv under the banner " New York Police Department, the best police department in the world. alongside the self-styled "…Most Moral Army in the World".
Good field experience for Raymond Kelly's tanks and heavily armed legions when they have to quell the restless serfs of NYC, the tri-state area and, if he can get his way, the USA and the world.
Robert Emmet
November 20th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Wrong. Americans are too stupid, brainless and pacified by the absurd media. They have no interest in anything except maybe the best deal available on black friday.
contraviews
November 20th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
INTERNATIONAL LAW GIVE PALESTINIANS THE RIGHT TO RESIST AND THE RIGHT TO DEFEND THEMSELVES………
Jaime
November 20th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
That waking up is really slow. I wonder if waking up is enough because in this case people also need BALLS,
Jaime
November 20th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
The law is made by and for the powerful. Under the law we are all equal but some are more equal than others.