Apr
6
Notes from Bil’in
Upon the one-year anniversary of the killing of Bassem Abu Rahmeh, this is the news in Haaretz: “IDF won’t investigate death of Bil’in activist from tear gas grenade.”
The kind of tear gas canister that killed Bassem is heavy, shaped like a bullet and the size of a can of beans. Haitham Al-Khatib—a video journalist who hardly sleeps, always on-call to film the the IDF raids in which demonstration organizers are arrested in the night—has a collection of them sitting on his desk. One day, Haitham showed me the Hebrew writing on the back of the canister. “The Special,” he translated ruefully.
…Continue reading at the Nation Institute’s Mondoweiss.
