Israeli police state in action in Niin -- March 27th, 2009

posted Monday, 30 March 2009

After the initial attack, military jeeps entered the village, occupying homes to shoot at demonstrators. Several jeeps drove through the streets, periodically stopping to shoot at residents. Israeli forces positioned on the roofs of Palestinian homes also shot into the streets. The military incursion on Ni’lin lasted until 4pm and caused the injury of one demonstrator hit by a tear gas canister and another shot with live ammunition in the leg.
Responding to the Occupation, the theft of their lands and increased suppression of the village’s resistance, several demonstrators threw stones at the armed Israeli forces.
The struggle has intensified as Israeli forces have begun conducting military incursions in the village at the start of the weekly Friday demonstration for the past month. Protesters are being denied not only access to their olive fields, but their freedom of expression against the Occupation within the town. Despite public criticisms in response to the recent, critical injury of Tristan Anderson, the army continues the dangerous tactic of shooting tear-gas canister at demonstrators, utilizing the canisters as weapons rather than the gas as crowd dispersal.
Israeli occupation forces have already murdered four Ni’lin residents during demonstrations against the confiscation of their land and critically injured one international solidarity activist.

Tristan Anderson was an accident waiting to happen. And given that they have not changed their tactics, another accident is waiting to happen as well. Israel is destroying itself by straying from the values of Western Civilization that it purported to uphold by denying people the right to freedom of assembly. In an environment like this, the only law that matters is the law of might.

Fuck the police.

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Israeli police state in action in Niin -- March 27th, 2009