International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said Sunday Israeli activists have uploaded a video of the shooting of Lymor, an activist, and the initial violence of the Israeli military in Bil'in on Friday, August 11th.
ISM said the video clearly shows the Border Police unit firing on the demonstrators.
The video also clearly shows the commander of the unit saying, "This is Lebanon!" as he orders his force to fire on retreating demonstrators, and "I will not allow a demonstration during wartime!"
ISM said the commander, Majdei, made this decision despite a military court decision in August 2005 that people in Bil'in have the right to protest on their land on the village-side of the apartheid Wall.
Every week since the wall was finished in March 2006, the Israeli military has also denied them the right to protest on their farmland on the other side of the Wall.
The Wall separates villagers from 60% of their farmland, half of which has already been annexed and developed by colonies.
The Israeli shot in the head and Danish woman beaten with a gun on Friday are the most serious injuries the army has caused since Ramzi Yassin, who was shot in the head with a plastic-coated steel bullet. Ramzi, from Bil'in, was handing out water during a demonstration in Bil'in on July 8th 2005, when he was shot in the side of the head.
The bullet caused severe bleeding of his brain and he was left unconscious for 7 days and with permanent brain damage. Haitham al Khateeb of Bil'in, Yonathan Pollack, an Israeli, BJ from Denmark, and Phil of Austrailia were hospitalized at different times all for rubber bullets injuries to their heads at close range at Bil'in demonstrations, except for Haitham who was hit by a tear gas canister fired at his head.
Lymor, who was shot on Friday, is currently in a stable condition at Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv. It took the ambulances about an hour to get from the site where he was shot to the hospital.
He was taken for an immediate surgery which took 3 hours, and a rubber bullet as well as shards of bone and damaged brain tissue were removed from his head and an internal hemorrhage was stopped. Before the surgery he was totally clear and aware even though he was in a lot of pain.
After the surgery he was moving his arms and legs while he was under sedation. He was taken off sedation around 7pm last evening and can move his limbs and can talk but is having trouble with his vision.
Rina, from Denmark, is also currently in the hospital in Hebron from a head concussion caused by an Israeli soldier beating her with his gun. She is stable, but still having trouble walking on her own.
In other news:
IOF Storms Hospitals in Hebron
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed on Sunday at pre-dawn, three hospitals in the West Bank (WB) City of Hebron, security sources said.
They told WAFA that mass of Israeli soldiers broke into Alya, Al-Ahli and Al-Mezan hospitals, conducting a search among wounded.
Al-Ahli hospital sources reported that the IOF conducted a search into its departments and emergency unit under a pretext of searching for wanted, but no arrests were reported.
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