Un altro pacifista dell?ISM colpito, ferito da uno sparo in pieno volto a
Jenine. I sodlati israeliani hanno ormai deciso che gli attivisti non sono
più intoccabili .......il problema è che i governi non fanno nulla. Chi va
in Palestina per proteggere i palestinesi si trova suo malgrado carne da
macello. Forse gli israeliani pensano di scoraggiare l'invio di altri
pacifisti .... ma si sbagliano. La morte di Rachel ha sensibilizzato che non
volta gli occhi da un altra parte, e a Pasqua partiranno dall'Italia due
gruppi per un totale di 15 persone ed altri 8 si sono aggiunti in questi
giorni. In Palestina sono solo un centinaio in questo momento gli attivisti
presenti.
Se qualcuno (Giovanna caviglione) ha tempo e voglia di tradurre l'articolo
qua sotto che parla di quello quello che sembra destinato ad essere uno dei
tanti attacchi a chi vuole la pace.
Elisabetta
Today at about 6.30 pm Brian Avery, 24, of New Mexico was shot in the face
by a burst of machine gun fire from an Israeli Armoured Personnel Carrier.
The circumstances surrounding his injury are as follows:
Today the Israeli army of occupation operating in the Jenin area imposed its
second day of curfew on the people of the city. Groups of young men and
boys continued their resistance to the curfew by venturing out onto the
streets to throw stones at tanks and other military vehicles.
At about 6.30 pm Brian and another ISM activist were at the ISMs Jenin
headquarters when they heard the sound of gunfire coming from the centre of
the city, about two blocks away. They left the apartment to investigate and
had traveled about a hundred metres when they arrived at a major crossroad
and saw two armoured personnel carriers advancing towards them at low
speed. There were no Palestinians on the streets in the area, armed or
otherwise.
At the sight of the armoured vehicles both activists stood still and raised
their hands above their heads.
When the first armoured personnel carrier was 50 metres from them it fired a
burst of machine gun fire (an estimated 15 rounds) at the ground in front of
them so that they were sprayed by a shower of broken bullets and stones.
Tobias, Brians companion, leapt aside. He had fled about three steps when
he looked back to see Brian lying face down on the road in a pool of blood.
Tobias and Brian were then joined by four other ISM activists who had
arrived at the scene of the shooting by a different route. All six of them
rushed to help him as the two armoured vehicles rolled past without
stopping. He was conscious but when he raised himself from the ground they
saw that his left cheek has been almost totally shot off.
The activists then performed first aid on him and phoned for an ambulance
which took him to the Martyr Doctor Khalil Suleiman Hospital in Jenin where
he was treated for shrapnel wounds to his face including bone fractures
below the eyes, lacerations of the tongue and lacerations of his left
cheek. A specialist was called in to examine his injuries and recommended
that he be transferred immediately to a hospital in Afula in Israel but his
departure was delayed because the Israeli military refused to grant his
ambulance safe passage for more than an hour.
>From Afula Brian was transported to a hospital in Haifa by helicopter.
Under the Israeli Armys own rules of engagement soldiers are not permitted
to fire warning shots with mounted weapons. They may fire warning shots
with light hand held weapons and must aim away from the people they are
warning.
When he was shot Brian was wearing a fluorescent red vest with a reflective
white cross on its back and front.
For further information contact:
* Tobias on: 057 836 527 or 067 437 690 or
* Lasse on: 059 386 896
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