Correspondent Jerusalem - In this dark and tragic history, there is only one certainty: Jawaher Abu Rahma, a Palestinian 36 years, died Saturday, January 1, to the hospital in Ramallah. The circumstances of his death give rise to a growing debate in Israel, combining the activists of the movement against the "security fence" (the "wall" of separation) which cuts the West Bank, an Israeli press often very partisan, and responsible for the Army ready to exploit a truth that suits them.The matter becomes even more magnitude that it is involved in the dangerous political vacuum left by blocking the "peace process". Jawaher Abu Rahmah lived in Bilin, a village located 12 kilometers west of Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority. Since the start of construction of the barrier, in February 2005, Bilin and the nearby village of Nilin, every Friday are the highlights of the contest.
Often, this "nonviolent resistance" and skidded, with stone-throwing demonstrators, the soldiers responded with gunfire and tear gas, rubber bullets, or vice versa. Friday 31 déceùbre, there was a crowd in Bil'in. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, had come to support a cause regarded as legitimate since the International Court of Justice and the UN have ruled the barrier illegal.
On September 4, 2007, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled in favor of the residents of Bilin, ordering the army to change the route, depriving the village of 60% of its farmland. That order, like its predecessors, has remained a dead letter. At the end of the gathering that things have degenerated.
Like every Friday or so, Jawaher Abu Rahmah attended the event, not far from stone-throwing youths. It was at 2:15 p.m., according to witnesses, a vehicle of the Palestinian Red Crescent has won the young woman, half-conscious and vomiting, to the hospital in Ramallah. She died on the night of cardiac arrest, presumably as a result of massive inhalation of tear gas.
Soon, Israeli military officials have launched an offensive to cons-harmless IDF. Obligingly picked up by newspapers close to the government, their argument was: the young woman was probably not present at the scene, because "it is not on any photograph" taken during the event and has a long medical history , took a lot of drugs, some to fight against leukemia, she had been hospitalized shortly before she had asthma, and finally she died at her home ...
"This whole story is full of contradictions and improbabilities," said a military official, putting into question a commitment to "delegitimize Israel." Several editorials in the popular press has chimed in, denouncing the "radical leftists and anarchists of Bilin, which seek to make" another Mohammed Al-Dura ", named after a young Palestinian aged 12, killed in September 2000, beginning of the second intifada, and became a symbol of Palestinian resistance.
Then the evidence has increased, contradicting assertions military and confirming the presence of Abu Rahmah Jawaher the scene of the event. Abandoning the idea of a "manufacture" the army is now happy to note that an investigation is underway. It will struggle to grow: for religious reasons, the family refused an autopsy to be made.
If the circumstances of death remain uncertain - a priori, inhalation of tear gas does not kill, at least in an unconfined environment - in the eyes of Palestinians, Abu Rahmah Jawaher and his family have already taken place among the martyrs resistance to Israeli occupation. And for good reason: his brother Bassam was killed by a tear gas canister shot in the chest, Friday, April 17, 2009, roughly where Jawaher fell.
As for his other brother, Ashraf, a video that has been around the world shown handcuffed and gagged, surrounded by soldiers, one of them shoots him point-blank shot with rubber coated steel in the foot. This happened July 7, 2008 at Nilin. Coincidence: the military courts should hear, Thursday, Jan.
6, the officer who had ordered the "punishment", Lieutenant-Colonel Omri Borbeg. Laurent Zecchini
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