A peace activist passes an Israeli tank in the main square of the West Bank City of Ramallah, April 1, 2002. Palestinian gunmen killed eight suspected collaborators and Islamic leaders expressed fury at Israel's isolation of Yasser Arafat as Israeli forces tightened their siege of the Palestinian leader's office. (Reuters) |
Palestinian paramedics treat Kumle Ibidun, of Bristol, England, after she was shot by Israeli troops when approaching Israeli tanks near Beit Jalla, adjacent to Bethlehem, Monday April 1, 2002, demonstrating against the Israeli military presence.. (AP Photo/Carina Appel) |
A peace activist receives treatment at a hospital after being injured when Israeli soldiers opened fired at a demonstration of international peace activists in the West Bank town of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, April 1, 2002. Five foreign peace marchers and a Palestinian television cameraman were injured by shrapnel when Israeli soldiers fired at their feet, witnesses said. Firing started when about 100 demonstrators, including Palestinians and foreigners, marched near a church carrying a sign saying "We want peace not war," they said. REUTERS/Magnus Johansson |
Peace activists and members of left-wing parties demonstrate outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv March, 30, 2002. The demonstrators called on Israel to stop its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Havakuk Levison |
"Opened fired"? Did Reuters really write this?
Five foreign peace marchers and a Palestinian television cameraman were injured by shrapnel when Israeli soldiers fired at their feet, witnesses said.
Did the soldiers shoot the demonstrators, or did they shoot warning shots at the ground? And what were they using that produces "shrapnel"?
Firing started when about 100 demonstrators, including Palestinians and foreigners, marched near a church carrying a sign saying "We want peace not war," they said. REUTERS/Magnus Johansson
I want peace too, but I doubt peace is to be achieved by licking the boots of a thug like Arafat.