American citizen shot in head with tear gas canister by IDF

Tristan Anderson has been critically injured in the village of Nilin after Israeli forces shot him in the head with a tear-gas canister (big hole, brain visible).

Tristan Anderson was shot as Israeli forces attacked a demonstration against the construction of the annexation wall through the village of Ni’lin’s land. Another resident from Ni’lin was shot in the leg with live ammunition.

Four Ni’lin residents have been killed during demonstrations against the confiscation of their land.
Fadesays...

Seriously, if I ever meet a jew who gets emotional about the Holocaust I will freaking rip their fuckin head right off.
There, I said it. The holocaust is officially no longer off limits.

dannym3141says...

>> ^Fade:
Seriously, if I ever meet a jew who gets emotional about the Holocaust I will freaking rip their fuckin head right off.
There, I said it. The holocaust is officially no longer off limits.


The fuck are you talking about? Israel performing atrocious acts = all jews are culpable?

Anyway, I really don't like the use of "american citizen" in this topic title.. i'm sorry to go there, but like stewie i feel i must. It feels like war mongering. This isn't toward you joedirt, you just used the terms from the youtube video.

Propagandistic titles like this drum up "we demand revenge!" cries from the masses and before you know it you're in another war where you're losing loved ones from the armed forces and you're asking the question "What? You mean people die in a war? That's unacceptable, pull out!"

joedirtsays...

Dannym, you are wrong. It is relevant that an American citizen protesting or even walking down the street or whatever... in the West Bank was shot in the head by IDF troops.

So ask yourself, was this some militant, combatant or terrorist? Was he working with terrorists? Did he put himself in some dangerous conflict spot?

The point I guess is that IDF suppresses anyone protesting the occupation walls. The sad part is that if it was just another Palestinian being shot and killed by IDF it isn't news at all.

We should demand accountability from IDF especially after their butchering of Gazans.

joedirtsays...

By the way.. this is all in response to reports of rocks being thrown. All that tear gas and attempted murder shown here with a 40mm canister over rock throwing protesters.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/16/AR2009031602666.html

JERUSALEM, March 16 -- An American injured last week during a demonstration near the West Bank village of Naalin remains in critical condition, still heavily sedated but breathing on his own, a hospital official said Monday.
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The Californian has been removed from a respirator, and a spokesman for Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv said he was "semi-conscious" after days under full anesthesia. Anderson's associates and hospital and other officials said he was able to lift fingers on one hand in response to a voice command.

joedirtsays...

I don't know how much I trust this source but..


Last Friday, at a rally against the ongoing construction of Israel's "separation wall," Tristan was shot in the head by a high-velocity tear-gas cannister. He was taking photographs at a weekly demonstration in the West Bank village of Ni'lin, which stands to lose 25% of its remaining land to the wall. (The wall was ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice in 2004. Undertaken in the name of state security, it effects a further massive land theft by the Israeli government on behalf of Jewish settlers in the West Bank.)

Tristan's skull and face were shattered. Surgeons removed part of the frontal lobe of his brain, and he may lose an eye.

Because the Israeli army does not allow Palestinian ambulances into Israel, Tristan's ambulance was detained for 15 minutes at a military checkpoint, while he lay bleeding from his brain. He was ultimately transferred to an Israeli ambulance.

Israeli government spokespersons said the soldiers followed proper policy, as the protest took place in a closed military zone. This stance is hardly surprising. Since July 2008, Israeli soldiers have killed four unarmed residents of Ni'lin, ages ranging from 10 to 22, at demonstrations against the wall. Three of these four Palestinian youths were shot in the head, and one in the back; three by live ammo, and one by "rubber-coated steel bullets" that lodged in his brain.

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