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July 20th, 2008
Posted: 02:09 PM ET

JERUSALEM (CNN) — The Israel military is investigating an Israeli
soldier firing a rubber bullet at a blind-folded Palestinian man after a local
human rights group distributed video footage of the incident on Sunday.

The video clip published by B’Tselem shows a Palestinian man handcuffed
and blindfolded, held at the arm by an Israeli soldier while another soldier
points his gun at his legs from close range. The soldier fires the weapon and
the Palestinian flinches, but it’s unclear from the video where the man was
shot.

The Palestinian is 27-year-old Ashraf Abu Rahma, a demonstrator
protesting on July 7 in Nil’in, a West Bank village near Ramallah, according to
B’Tselem.

Both the Israel Defense Forces and B’Tselem said Abu Rahma’s toe was
wounded and that he was treated by an IDF doctor before being sent home.


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