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Video: Nabi Saleh activist shot at point blank range by Israeli border police (Updated)

Mairav Zonszein has some details on the video above:

An Israeli Border Policeman was videotaped shooting Palestinian activist Manal Tamimi in the leg with a rubber-coated bullet from very close range in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh on Friday.

According to Bilal Tamimi, who shot the video, and a report from the Palestine News Network, the border policeman was no more than a few meters from Manal when he shot her in her knee region, reportedly causing a fracture to her bone from the impact. Tamimi told +972 they also tried to break his camera.

Zonszein adds, “In addition to Manal, two journalists were lightly injured and a girl was taken to the hospital after being hit with skunk water.”

Here’s another video circulating:

(Update) The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee just sent out this update:

Israeli forces shoot a Palestinian from a close range

Israeli forces shot a local female activist from Nabi Saleh Manal Tamimi today with rubber coated steel bullets from a close range. In addition to Manal, another two Palestinian and two journalists were lightly injured.

Manal was hit with 4 rubber coated steel bullets in her knees and legs and was later taken to a hospital in Ramallah. Another girl from Nabi Saleh was also taken to hospital after being hit with skunk water.

Israeli forces attacked the protestors in the village who protest weekly against the settlements with tear gas canisters, sound grenades, rubber bullets, rubber coated steel bullets and skunk water.

In 2011 a similar incident took place when Israeli forces shot dead Mustafa Tamimi in the face with a tear gas canister from a close range.

(Hat tip Refaat Alareer)

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It’s hard to find documentation of anything that cowardly. The Israeli soldier is a empty shell waiting to crack

Yeah, this is the kind of stuff the Palestinians have to put up with every day (and count themselves lucky that no one was killed), but the likes of Fish and Dovkind and the ivory tower “intellectuals” are aghast that some organization — that most people have never heard of — had the temerity to make a symbolic step to do something to protect the shooting victim.

if anyone is wondering how Manal was hit by four bullets from the one shot

The israeli defence force (if you want to call them that) uses several rubber bullets that are fired from a special adapter attached to the muzzle of a rifle, similar to those used to launch rifle grenades. The rubber bullets are loaded into the front of the adapter, and propelled with a blank cartridge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_bullet

>> An Israeli Border Policeman was videotaped shooting Palestinian activist Manal Tamimi in the leg with a rubber-coated bullet from very close range in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh on Friday.

1. Supremacist “Jewish State” border policemen have no business being deep inside Palestinian territory – far from Israel’s / Partition borders – and assaulting Palestinians.

2. Despite possessing weapons and being decked out in safety gear, those supremacist “Jewish State” soldiers managed to look like frightened little girls. I wonder if they were praying for Captain Israel to show up and rescue them.

@- annie,

Are you sure Manal Tamimi didn’t step in between the border cop and his target?

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These guys should come to Vegas and play poker…

Impact of rubber bullets !!Warning. Images might distress some!!