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3 Palestinian Protesters Hurt in W. Bank Clashes with Israeli Army
2012-03-17
[An Nahar] A Paleostinian protester was bitten by an Israeli army attack dog during a protest in the West Bank village Kafr Qaddum west of Nablus on Friday, an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent said.

An Israeli military spokeswoman acknowledged to AFP that a demonstrator was "lightly maimed" by the dog.

"One hundred Paleostinians were hurling rocks at security forces, who used riot dispersal means," she said.

"One Paleostinian was incarcerated for physically assaulting a soldier, and a second was attacked by a dog. He was lightly maimed and treated by army medics at the scene. He did not need to be evacuated to hospital."

The demonstration was against the expropriation of Paleostinian land by Israel.

Activist Jonathan Pollack named the maimed Paleostinian as Ahmad Shtawi, and noted in a statement that, after biting Shtawi, "the dog would not release its hold of the bleeding arm, even as its handler arrived at the scene and tried to order it to do so."

The second Paleostinian incarcerated was Morad Shtawi, who "tried to reason with the commanding officer into releasing the young man. He was then pepper-sprayed and incarcerated as well," Pollack noted.

In a separate West Bank demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh, an Israeli woman was maimed in the head by a rubber bullet.

According to the army spokeswoman, security forces used rubber bullets to disperse 40 Paleostinians who were throwing stones at them.

"One Israeli woman was lightly maimed by a rubber bullet, she was evacuated by the Red Islamic Thingy."

Pollack noted that two other protesters in Nabi Saleh were maimed, one by a rubber-coated bullet and another by a tear-gas projectile.
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