The first segment of this story can be found here
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A volley of Israeli tear gas canisters streaks through the sky.
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Tear gas canisters set fields ablaze and a local boy tries to extinguish a fire with buckets of water.
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Later, the local fire department arrives.
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Protesters position themselves to throw stones at the border police.
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The protesters begin to take injuries when a young man is hit in the chest with a tear gas canister.
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A Palestinian man suffers an injury to the top of his head, apparently from a bullet.
As myself and another group of journalists make our way forward, the Israeli Border Police open fire on us. I hear the bullets zipping, pinging and cracking as they hit the trees and rocks near me.
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As I take cover in a ravine I see that my colleague, Israeli journalist Shimi Gat has taken a bullet to the chest.
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After a medic controls his bleeding to the best of his ability, Shimi pleads to be taken to the Israeli border police in hopes of making it to a hospital in Israel instead of relying on medical care in the West Bank.
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He is carried into the line of fire by the medic and other journalists, all of whom are pleading with the border police to stop firing.
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After Shimi is taken away by the border police, myself and the rest of the journalists are forced to return to the Palestinian side an are not given any information as to where Shimi will be taken. As we begin to walk back, the border police begin firing a barage of tear gas on us.
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After nearly an hour of driving around searching for information on where Shimi has been taken, we intercept the border police vehicle and transfer Shimi into an ambulance that we ordered from Jerusalem. It appeared that the border police had refused Shimi medical attention in hopes he would bleed to death, which luckily did not happen.
At the hospital, x-rays show that the bullet that entered Shimi in his upper chest had flattened out to the size of a large coin and made it all the way down to his pelvic region, puncturing a lung and possibly other organs on its path. This seemed to offer some merit to the rumor that the Israelis are using bullets that change direction once in someones body, causing far more damage than a regular bullet, which would usually exit the body. Others, who seem to know much more about ballistics than I would ever claim to, say that such behavior is standard for most rifle bullets and that there is no such thing as a bullet specifically designed to change direction upon penetration. Either way it seems to support the theory that the border police are using real bullets (with the tips dipped in rubber) for crowd control instead of actual rubber bullets, which should not penetrate the body or change direction, flatten out and cause severe damage.
Here's a really terrible article on the event.
Note: My last update on Shimi was that is continuing to recover. They were unable to remove the bullet but a full recovery is expected. I wish him and his family all the best and thank them for their service.
What is the solution? Any input would be welcomed.
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Isn't there an international convention that protects journalists in warzones?
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