Palestinian protester killed by an Israeli soldier in Nabi Saleh
Mustafa Tamimi, a 28-year-old Nabi Saleh resident, was fatally shot in the head, with a teargas canister fired by an Israeli soldier at very close range. Nabi Saleh, Palestinian Territory. 9th December 2011
Mustafa Tamimi, a 28-year-old Nabi Saleh resident, was fatally shot in the head with a teargas canister fired by an Israeli soldier at very close range during the weekly Friday protest in his village.
Tamimi was first treated in Nabi Saleh by Israeli medics and then brought to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. He had several skull fractures, a heavily injured eye and brain hemorrhage. He died from his injuries on Saturday morning.
Witnesses say the soldier was less than ten meters away when he fired (from the open rear door of a military jeep), causing severe damage to the orbital region of Tamimi’s face; and that Tamimi was throwing stones at the Israeli army.
“Half of his face was destroyed, pretty much. It looked really, really bad and he lost a lot of blood,” said Lazar Simeonov, a photographer that was in the village at the time. “I am not sure he will make it.”
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