If you haven't heard of Tristan Anderson, now would be a good time to find out who is is. On March 13, the Oakland-based activist was shot by the Israeli military while protesting alongside some 400 international, Palestinian and Israeli people in the village of Ni'ilin, near Ramallah in the West Bank. Harrowing footage captured how Anderson was struck in the head by a high-velocity teargas canister that left him bloodied and critically injured. Anderson remains unconscious at an Israeli hospital near Tel Aviv and has undergone surgery, during which parts of his right frontal lobe were removed. On Monday, his parents traveled to Israel to see him. "We are scared and really still in shock," said his mother, Nancy Anderson. "To shoot peaceful demonstrators is really horrifying to us. What we want to ask is that the Israeli government publicly take full responsibility for the shooting of our son." Meanwhile, the Israeli government has said it will conduct an internal probe into IDF soldiers' claims that they targeted civilians during the military raids on Gaza earlier this year. In an interview on Democracy Now!, Haaretz journalist Amira Hass said that while some might think the soldiers described only isolated incidents, in fact "the whole attack -- the three weeks of attack -- were characterized [as] almost indiscriminate attacks on civilians, attacks on people who carried white flags, attacks on rescue teams, not to mention the attacks from the air at whole civilian neighborhoods." Read the rest of the interview. For more information on Tristan Anderson, go here. Thanks for reading, Liliana Segura, Editor, Rights & Liberties Special Coverage |
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