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<p><strong>10 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_17505" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width:410px;"><a rel="attachment wp-att-17505" href="http://palsolidarity.org/2011/04/17504/wael-scuttlinga/"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-17505" title="Army shoots tear gas" src="https://i2.wp.com/palsolidarity.org/multimedia/2011/04/wael-scuttlinga-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a></p>
<p class="wp-caption-text">Army shoots tear gas</p>
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<p>Bullets  and tear gas were fired upon Palestinians and internationals whilst  they planted olive trees on the land legally owned by the village of  Iraq Burin yesterday.The popular committee asked for a group of internationals to assist  them in planting olive trees on the village land which is close to an  army out post and the illegal Israeli settlement of Bracha. The trees  were successfully planted even under the aggressive presence of the  Israeli Army.</p>
<p>As the trees where being planted one army jeep came close and was a  looming presence as local people took the chance to go further into the  land to pick “akoub” (a plant used for cooking.)</p>
<p>After some 20 minutes, another jeep turned up, and the heavily armed  soldiers started moving towards the people. One of the soldiers was seen  aiming his gun directly at one of the boys.</p>
<p>When one boy, who in a symbolic act of resistance, threw a stone  towards the soldiers in the far distance, they responded by firing shots  and tear gas directly at the people, who had to run and duck to avoid  being hit. More shots where fired at the youth but it is not clear if  they were live or rubber coated steel bullets. However, what was clear  was the completely disproportionate use of weapons and force on people  partaking in a peaceful act of planting trees.</p>
<p>Despite the dangerous aggression of the Israeli army all 50 olive  trees were planted on the hillside and three in the local cemetery – one  for each of the boys that were killed in the village in the last year.  On 19th March 2010, 16-year-old Muhammed Qadus, together with his cousin  Asaud Qadus were shot and killed by the Israeli Army during a peaceful  demonstration. On the 27th January this year, 19-year-old Oday Maher  Hamza Qadous was shot dead by a settler on the hilltop just outside the  village.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Graves of the murdered youngsters</p>
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<p><a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2011/04/17504/">Source</a></p>
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