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March 16, 2009

Israeli Troops Shoot US Activist in West Bank
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An American activist from Oakland, California was critically injured
Friday when Israeli soldiers fired a tear gas canister directly at his
head during a weekly nonviolent protest against the wall in the West
Bank village of N’alin. Thirty-seven-year-old Tristan Anderson is the
fourth member of the International Solidarity Movement to be critically
injured or killed by the Israeli military since 2003.

Jonathan Pollack of the ISM: “He was shot at directly with a tear gas
projectile, with an extended range tear gas projectile from about fifty
to sixty meters. And the impact caused several condensed fractures to
his skull and collapsation of his eye socket. He was operated on in the
hospital a few hours later in critical condition, and large portions of
his frontal lobe had to be removed, because it was splattered with bone
fragments as a result of the impact of the tear gas canister.”

During their weekly demonstrations since last April, four unarmed N’alin
residents have been killed and over 400 injured by the Israeli Defense
Forces.



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