March 7, 2013

A Palestinian man reported shot in the head with a rubber bullet by Israeli troops during a West Bank demonstration two weeks ago has died.

Mohammed Asfour, 22, was shot during riots to support  Palestinian hunger strikers being held in administrative detention in Israeli prisons. He was taken from a West Bank hospital last week  to an Israeli hospital in Tel Aviv, where he died Thursday.

The funeral for Asfour, who was a fourth-year student at the sports school in Abu Dis University and a local soccer star, is schedueled for Friday in his home village of Aboud.

Meanwhile, a Palestinian woman from eastern Jerusalem was seriously wounded by a foam-tipped bullet that struck her in the jaw, Haaretz reported.

The injury occurred in the eastern Jerusalem community of SIlwan. It occurred during the arrest of the woman’s brother-in-law, after rioting residents threw rocks at the arresting officers, who fired on the crowd. Her lower jaw was broken and she can not eat solid food for the next couple of months.
 

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