The murder of Rushdi Tamimi and beating and jailing of Bassem Tamimi

The murder of Rushdi Tamimi and beating and jailing of Bassem Tamimi

Two days ago, Rushdi Tamimi was murdered for nonviolent protest against the Occupation of Gaza in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. He was shot by armed young men sicced by the government of Israel, which also occupies the West Bank, on nonviolent protestors. The villagers protest against the Wall, dividing and stealing their land, and the settlers who seize or burn the olive trees on which these farmers depend.

Here is a youtube video of the killing, filmed by Boshra Tamimi. Do not watch it unless you are prepared to take in horror.

I was watching from a rooftop a nonviolent demonstration at this place in Nabi Saleh four weeks ago.

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After the initial tear gas canisters, after the rubber coated bullets hard as rocks, after their demonstration was attacked, teenagers throw rocks far away from the tanks, David against Goliath.

And the soldiers come with their guns and shoot live ammunition. Rushdi was shot once, was surrounded by soldiers shot again and kicked in the head. The film shows his relatives in Nabi Saleh surrounding him, pleading with the soldiers to let them take him to a hospital in Ramallah.

He survives to the hospital, his parents kiss him, he kisses them before being taken to the operating room.

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Everyone should see this video - suppressed in the America "news" media.(h/t Itziar). Though such videos are easily available, they are beyond the Wall of silence of the American corporate media for whom Israeli lives are valuable, Palestinian lives are not.