Friday, April 17, 2009

Blueprints For A Playground

murder in Bil'in

Today I was again with Fez and Yuval in Bil'in, at a demonstration against the wall. As usual, we are the road to the wall (or the fence) and gone before we were all arrived, we were well received already friendly with tear gas. About
since the beginning of the war in Gaza by the Israeli army is a new type tear gas grenade used up to 500m fly far. 5 weeks ago was hit in Nil'in Tristan Anderson (38 Americans) from 60m away from a grenade on the head and is since in Tel Aviv in the ICU in a coma. The Israeli law does is banned, the grenades to shoot directly into the protesters, but as some other laws also is that of the IDF (Israely Defense Force) often ignored. Also today was again extensively shot directly into the protesters, that is us.
One shell hit a man from the village, Basem Abu Rahme, 29, of perhaps 20-30m distance in the torso. I was standing about 10m away. fell as the shots I had turned myself when I'm again being scrutinized, was Basem bleeding from a chest on the floor. It took some time, pre-set to the Israeli bombardment. The soldiers had apparently no ambulance there and also wanted nothing to do on first aid, with a car he was driven from the "combat zone" and died on the way to the hospital in Ramallah.
A video shortly after he was driven away, it was clear that he is seriously injured, but not that he would die:

were at the demonstration today also cast the part of the demonstrators stones However, only 3-4 young people who were a little off. No stone has also taken anywhere near a soldier.
Tomorrow is the funeral and another demo, then I'll write more again.
More information about the non-violent resistance in Palestine: http://palsolidarity.org/

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Total Rewards Borgata

front yard

The tree in our front garden to bloom angefagen really beautiful: