”rubber bullet” News

Technology advances put police behavior in focus

LONDON (Reuters) – For years police have filmed protesters at demonstrations to identify potential troublemakers and collect evidence for prosecutions. Now, with advances in digital technology and mobile phones with cameras and videos, ordinary members of the public are turning
04 16 2009 11:45AM (...more)

Combatants for Peace

The Nation -- This past January a ten year old Palestinian girl, Abir Aramin , was hit by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli Border Police as she was making her way home from school in East Jerusalem.
09 21 2007 3:09AM (...more)

Israelis kill militant in West Bank

NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - Israeli forces killed a gunman from a group linked to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas 's party during a series of shootings and arrests in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, officials said.
10 11 2007 1:57AM (...more)

Israeli says army too soft in prisoner abuse case

JERUSALEM – Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday said the army must file stiffer charges against soldiers who were filmed abusing a bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner last year. The accused, a sergeant
07 3 2009 2:24PM (...more)

Israeli officer, soldier charged in West Bank shooting

JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Israeli military court on Thursday charged an officer and a soldier with "conduct unbecoming" for an incident in which a rubber bullet was fired at close range at a bound and blindfolded Palestinian.
08 8 2008 5:10AM (...more)

Israeli army probes shooting of bound Palestinian

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Video footage of an Israeli soldier firing what appears to be a rubber bullet at point-blank range at a bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainee has led to an army investigation.
07 21 2008 10:10PM (...more)

Israel lifts blockade on West Bank village

JERUSALEM (AFP) - The Israeli army on Tuesday lifted a five-day blockade it had imposed on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank following violent protests against its controversial separation barrier.
07 9 2008 12:00AM (...more)

Israeli curfew in West Bank village over barrier protests

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel enforced a curfew in the West Bank village of Nilin on Sunday after dozens of people were wounded in weeks of protests against a proposed extension of its controversial separation barrier.
07 7 2008 8:56AM (...more)

S.African police break up service delivery protest

CAPE TOWN (AFP) - South African police used rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of rioters on Cape Town 's main airport route on Monday and arrested seven in the latest protest against government service delivery .
09 11 2007 10:18AM (...more)

Israel deports activists detained going to Gaza

JERUSALEM – Israel has deported a former U.S. congresswoman, a Nobel peace prize laureate and other activists who were arrested trying to break the naval blockade
07 7 2009 10:54AM (...more)