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Israeli 'shooting video' causes outrage
Peter Beaumont
* The Observer,
* Sunday July 27 2008
It was an image that shocked the world: a blindfolded Palestinian demonstrator in the West Bank village of Ni'ilin being subjected to a punishment shooting in his foot with a plastic-coated baton round.
The protester was Ashraf Abu Rahma, 27. The video was shot by Salam Kanaan, 17. It has emerged as part of an increasing and highly successful effort encouraged by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, which has distributed dozens of cameras to record human rights abuses by right-wing Israeli settlers and the army.
A constant presence at demonstrations in the Palestinian villages in the rocky hills of the West Bank, Rahma is employed as a watchman on land that is threatened with being taken to build the separation wall. Arrested during a demonstration against the wall in Ni'ilin on 7 July he recalled last week being almost immediately blindfolded.
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Israeli 'shooting video' causes outrage
Peter Beaumont
* The Observer,
* Sunday July 27 2008
It was an image that shocked the world: a blindfolded Palestinian demonstrator in the West Bank village of Ni'ilin being subjected to a punishment shooting in his foot with a plastic-coated baton round.
The protester was Ashraf Abu Rahma, 27. The video was shot by Salam Kanaan, 17. It has emerged as part of an increasing and highly successful effort encouraged by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, which has distributed dozens of cameras to record human rights abuses by right-wing Israeli settlers and the army.
A constant presence at demonstrations in the Palestinian villages in the rocky hills of the West Bank, Rahma is employed as a watchman on land that is threatened with being taken to build the separation wall. Arrested during a demonstration against the wall in Ni'ilin on 7 July he recalled last week being almost immediately blindfolded.
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