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Nor do they mourn victims like Mustafa Tamimi. On December 11, thousands of Palestinians protested his killing. On December 9, a-Nabi Saleh demonstrators turned out against settlers taking their land.
A soldier fired a tear-gas canister directly at his head, critically wounding him. Evacuated to Israel's Beilinson Hospital, he died the next day. About 2,000 mourners turned out. PLC committee against settlements head Walif Assaf told them:
"They want to turn our unarmed struggle into an armed struggle. But this will not change our policy of peaceful struggle against settlements and against the occupation."
After his burial, clashes broke out as hundreds of mourners marched toward Israeli soldiers near the funeral proceeding. Some threw stones. Tear gas was fired in response.
Tamimi was the 20th person killed this way in the past eight years. B'Tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli said the organization called for a full military probe into who fired the canister, who ordered it, and why it was aimed at Tamimi's head at point blank range.
Earlier in response to B'Tselem's demands, then Judea and Samaria legal advisor Col. Sharon Afek said "direct firing (of tear gas canisters) at persons is prohibited," and that "very soon, a explicit and broad directive will be issued" to prohibit it.
Later after other incidents occurred, Judea and Samaria legal advisor Major Uri Sagi told B'Tselem that "following your letter, we have again clarified to the forces operating in Central Command the rules relating to firing of tear-gas canisters at persons, including the prohibition on directly firing" them at anyone.
Other senior military officials said such firings don't occur. However, B'Tselem documented more cases in which security forces targeted protesters illegally. No one was prosecuted. Investigations were whitewashed. Soldiers literally get away with murder. Israel denies free expression and assembly violently.
On December 9, the UN General Assembly passed nine resolutions related to Palestine among 24 and two texts related to human rights and decolonization.
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