The Justice Ministry declared Sunday that no indictments will be filed against police in the case of an American activist who was hit by a tear gas canister and left comatose during a violent demonstration that turned deadly when the Israeli Army started attacking peaceful protesters in the West Bank last year.
Tristan Anderson, 38, of Oakland, California, was critically injured during a Palestinian protest in the West Bank village of Naalin last March. Amir Moran, spokesman for Israel's Tel Hashomer hospital, where Anderson is being treated, said his condition has not changed.
Like the majority of cases of laws broken involving agents of the state and the people under occupation along with their supporters, the state Justice Ministry has determined there was no criminal intent in harming Anderson. The investigation was opened in last May and closed several weeks ago because the top brass of the state had to proof read the statement before they made public only yesterday.
Human rights groups charge Anderson's case highlights a culture of impunity toward Israeli forces, because incidents of harm against Palestinians and their supporters are rarely investigated and few reach prosecution.
The number of civilians harmed and injured and then the number of investigations - a small minority of cases, and a tiny number of prosecutions - point to a very, very clear picture of impunity, said Sarit Michaeli of Israeli rights group B'Tselem.
The protest are needed because of the wall better known as the apartheid wall that was placed there so the state of Israel could steal more land from the Palestinians along will the continued building of illegal settlements.
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