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| IDF strikes back in the YouTube battle over Bil'in |
| 2011-01-16 |
| Videos posted by activists show non-violent demonstration, while army chooses different footage to justify use of tear gas, "skunk" water. In a rare move, the IDF this week posted a video on YouTube showing Palestinian violence at Friday's anti-barrier demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil'in. An IDF spokesman told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that the video was made in response to the high level of media focus on the weekly Bil'in demonstrations following the death the previous Saturday in a Ramallah hospital of Jawaher Abu Rahma, a village resident. Palestinians claim that Abu Rahma died from tear gas she inhaled the day before at an anti-barrier protest. The IDF says she was being treated for medical complications unconnected to tear gas. |
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