Friday, January 22, 2016

 



The ITF/IDF routinely uses 0.22 caliber live ammunition against
demonstrators. Here is a video that was shot by one of the assailants
whose camera later dropped and was retrieved by Palestinian protesters
in the Ramallah district.

"Following the publication of the
Israeli military’s probe into yesterday’s incident in which 13-year-old
‘Abd a-Rahman ‘Obeid Allah was killed in ‘Aida Refugee Camp by a 0.22
caliber bullet, B’Tselem demands that Israel’s security forces
immediately cease use of this ammunition as a means of crowd control and
to refrain from the use of live ammunition – both 0.22 caliber bullets
(dubbed Two-Two) and “ordinary” live bullets – in non-life-threatening
circumstances.

Since January 2015, 0.22 caliber bullets have
killed at least four Palestinians in the West Bank (including
yesterday’s fatality), and injured dozens more, some gravely. For years
B’Tselem has documented the lethal outcome of firing 0.22 caliber
bullets at demonstrators, and has been cautioning that the reality on
the ground contradicts the military’s official statements that the use
of this weapon is regulated and restricted. If the sniper’s version of
yesterday’s events is indeed correct, namely - that despite being armed
with a weapon with telescopic sights and firing in broad daylight, he
missed the mark and inadvertently hit a 13-year-old boy, the incidents
merely serves to underscore even further the danger this weapon poses."

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