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| Subject: Israhell criticised over Palestinian deaths Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:01 pm | |
| JERUSALEM: Israel's army has been criticised for its use of live fire against Palestinians, as concern mounts among human rights organisations over the civilian death toll since the start of the year.
Five young Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers this month, another was killed last month and a seventh death is disputed by the Israeli military.
The common thread to all of these cases is that none of these people posed any grave threat to the soldiers. Sarit Michaeli, B'Tselem spokeswoman
The army's use of "non-lethal crowd control measures" is also being questioned, with the release of a report that says since 2005 six Palestinians have been killed by rubber-coated metal bullets, another two died when hit by tear-gas canisters fired directly at them, and at least two other Palestinians have been killed with 0.22-calibrebullets used to disperse demonstrations.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/israel-criticised-over-palestinian-deaths-20130128-2dgyx.html#ixzz2JJXIJYij
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