West Bank – Residents of this Palestinian village have planted flowers in hundreds of spent Israeli tear gas grenades to honor those killed during their weekly protests against Israel’s West Bank separation barrier.
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Mohammed Khatib, a village organizer, said Wednesday that the unusual garden is meant to show that life can spring from death.
Bilin has become a symbol of Palestinian protests against Israeli policies in the West Bank. The village’s struggle to regain land taken by the barrier was the subject of “Five Broken Cameras,” a documentary nominated for an Oscar last year.
Palestinians say the barrier, which cuts into the West Bank, amounts to a land grab. Israel says it’s needed to keep Palestinian attackers out.
The Bilin garden commemorates Bassem Abu Rahmeh, a protest leader who was killed in 2009 when a tear gas grenade struck him in the chest during a demonstration. Bassem’s sister, Jawaher, died nearly two years later, a day after a weekly protest during which villagers said she inhaled Israeli tear gas.
During West Bank protests, Israeli troops often fire tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and occasionally live rounds, portraying them as appropriate means against Palestinian stone throwers.
Why does VIN pass these enemy PR propaganda pieces on to us?
The Jews can’t do the same bc the Arabs use bombs, guns w only really deadly bullets, and knives. So except for unfortunate rare cases where someone dies from tear gas which isn’t supposed to happen they can make a garden or whatever w them. However the Israelis have to face real deadly terrors which isn’t rare for people to be killed Hashem yismor veyatzil!
more PR BS. They demonstrably hate us. let them spend time in horticulture vs. their culture of hate and death.
i think rockets would make for much better planters, so maybe israel should start responding with rockets, of course only to help there garden grow…………
I guess they would rather have live bullets, as their brothers are getting in Syria, and Egypt. This once again proves to what extremes Israel goes to too save lives,not take lives.