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<td><span class="text11">The Israeli military uses tear gas cannisters as anti-personnel weaponry against unarmed demonstrators. (Anne Paq/<a href="http://activestills.org/">ActiveStills</a>)</span></td>
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<em>Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East issued the following edited action alert on 6 January 2010:</em></p>
<p>On 1 January 2011, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11710.shtml">36-year-old Palestinian Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the West Bank village of Bilin</a> died at a hospital from the effects of tear gas inhalation suffered at a  protest the previous day against Israel&#8217;s construction of a wall and  settlements on Bilin&#8217;s land. Jawaher is only the most recent protester  killed or seriously injured by tear gas fired by the Israeli military.  For example, Jawaher&#8217;s brother <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10476.shtml">Bassem was killed almost two years ago</a>, and two US citizens, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10393.shtml">Tristan Anderson</a> and Emily Henochowicz were injured in 2009-2010.</p>
<p>Much of Israel&#8217;s tear gas is provided by the US company Combined Systems  Inc. (CSI) located in Jamestown, Pennsylvania. The letters CSI, or CTS,  a CSI brand name, are marked on many of tear gas canisters that litter  Palestinian villages after they protest. The Israeli military is using  CSI&#8217;s tear gas as a weapon as it tries to crush the growing movement of  unarmed protest against Israel&#8217;s illegal confiscation of Palestinian  land for Israeli settlements. Even more disturbing, US taxpayers are  paying for at least some of the tear gas that Israel is shooting at  Palestinian, Israeli and international protesters. For example, in 2007  and 2008, the US State Department provided $1.85 million worth of &#8220;tear  gasses and riot control agents&#8221; to Israel as part of the US&#8217;s $3 billion  in annual military aid to Israel.</p>
<p>Act now by emailing executives at CSI, and at the companies that invest  in CSI, the Carlyle Group and Point Lookout Capital, and tell them to  stop providing their tear gas to the Israeli military, before more  protesters are killed and maimed.</p>
<p>The Israeli military has a documented history of deliberately firing  tear canisters directly at unarmed protesters, and of blanketing entire  villages in clouds of tear gas whenever they hold protests against  Israeli land seizure. Jawaher&#8217;s brother Bassem Abu Rahmah was killed in  April 2009 when he was hit in the chest with an extended range CSI tear  gas canister fired directly at him by an Israeli soldier, according to  B&#8217;Tselem. In the villages of Bilin and Nilin alone, 18 persons have been  directly hit by extended range CSI tear gas canisters. Bilin resident <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10918.shtml">Khamis Abu Rahmah suffered a fractured skull and brain hemorrhage</a> after being shot in the back of his head. An Israeli soldier shot  California resident Tristan Anderson directly in the head with a high  velocity tear gas canister in a March 2009 protest in Nilin, leaving  Tristan partially handicapped and suffering slight cognitive damage. New  York City college student Emily Henochowicz lost her left eye when an  Israeli soldier shot her directly in the face with an aluminum tear gas  canister at a May 2010 protest at the Qalandiya checkpoint.</p>
<p>And no one knows the long-term health impact for residents of villages  like Bilin and Nilin, and their Israeli supporters, who have been  blanketed in tear gas at least once a week over a period of years, each  time they hold their weekly protests against Israel&#8217;s confiscation of  their villages&#8217; land for Israel&#8217;s wall and settlements.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://campaigns.adalahny.org/csi-submit">Send an email to Combined Systems Inc.</a></strong></span></p>
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