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<p class="byline"><abbr class="published" title="Sunday, January 9th, 2011, 10:04 am">Sunday, January 9 2011<span class="author vcard">|<a class="url fn n" title="Joseph Dana" href="http://972mag.com/author/josephd/">Joseph Dana</a></span></abbr></p>
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<div>Amid controversy over Israel’s use of tear gas against  unarmed demonstrations in the West Bank and the media attention placed  on Bil’in’s protest after the killing of Jawaher Abu Rahmah, Israel  attacked the village of Nabi Saleh with poisonous gas. As soldiers were  leaving the village, marking the end of the demonstration, the army  covered the entire place with tear gas. Houses, shops and mosques  engulfed in the tear gas which killed Jawaher Abu Rahmah. The army was  able to do this with a  special device called ‘the ringo’ which fires 60  rounds of tear gas in about 7 seconds. The footage speaks for itself  especially from minute 7:00.</div>
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<div>The following is the report of the demonstration from the <a class="external" href="http://www.popularstruggle.org/" target="_blank">Popular Struggle Coordination Committee</a>.</div>
<p>Dozens of villagers, joined by Israeli and international supporters   took part in the weekly demonstration in the village despite the siege   laid on the village by the army, and the unusually large number of   soldiers who occupied the village’s streets. Many hiked through the   mountains the entire area was declared a closed military zone as early   as 9 am and a gate that was installed at the entrance to the village   earlier this week was shut closed.</p>
<p>Unlike most weeks, this Friday’s midday prayer, which precedes the   demonstration, did not take place in the village’s mosque, but rather on   the hill opposing the settlement. As people gathered to pray, soldiers   and Border Police officers rushed towards them, ordering them to enter   their homes for the duration of the closed military zone order. In   response, the protesters  staged a sit-in and refused to leave the   place.</p>
<p>At the same time, clashes broke inside the village between the armed   soldiers who took over the village, and local youth. Throughout the  day,  soldiers shot rubber-coated bullets at the protesting villagers  and  their supporters, as well as massive quantities of tear-gas.  Tear-gas  projectiles were often shot directly at the protesters,  causing one  injury. At some point, a pregnant women was evacuated to  the hospital,  after soldiers fired a tear-gas projectile directly into  her house. Naji  Tamimi, a member of the village’s popular committee,  was beaten by a  group of Border Police officers as he tried to approach  the house in  order to evacuate her.</p>
<p>During the day, soldiers randomly took over houses and arrested a   seventeen year-old from the street. They have also tried to detained a   thirteen year-old boy, but after other demonstrators gathered around him   to prevent his arrest, the soldiers decided to not peruse his   detention. At nightfall, on the army’s retreat out of the village, a  final  barrage of tear-gas was volleyed, as 64 projectiles were  simultaneously   fired into the village.</p>
<p><a href="http://972mag.com/israel-engulfs-an-entire-west-bank-village-with-tear-gas/">Israel engulfs an entire West Bank village in tear gas</a>.</p>
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