Pacific Daily News · 7 October 1988
CP-1988-072
Plastic bullets flll hospitals
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GAZA crry, Occupied Ga7a Strip (AP) - The Israeli ar- my's use of plastic bullets to .' break up Palestinian demon. strations is filling hospital wards with casualties and prompting calls for tighter con. tro]s. tion, inclu(ling two teen-agers treated for plastic bullet woun(L8 at Ahlx Arab H(wttal in Gaza City. complain that stones thrown by protesters do not warrant the wwlty.
"It's ut)reasonable punish- ment," said Mazul Abu Lail, 19, a tailor who WI shot in the In a nearby W lfvyear-old Rifaat massoU a CotrUCtion worker, nodded in agreement. "It isn't right and it isn't falr for the soldiers to shoot inn cent pIe,. shifting uncoortablY with a bullet w(Mmd ID his left side.
The plastic bullet was intr ced Jn AUgt to supplement rublxr bullets, water cannoD8. uprL8ing m the Israeh. . eup1 West Bank and Ga7a Strip. Defense Minister Yltzhak Rabin said the other weap)Th '*roved to be ielent to CO with stone throwiDg" and thing less lethal ttwn lead bul. lets. The aim. Rabin 8aiiL is to the territories with a minimum of fatalities.
Since the uprising began Dec. 8, at lea3t Pales- tiniaDS have been killed and hundrets injured. Six Israelis have died. lastic Iets The arniy says they are not SUP5xd to be lethal if fired from at least 70 yar(L8. However, at least four deaths from plastic tAets have been reported at Sbifa ital in Ga7a City. United States.
Britain bave Obid to the use o plastic ammunition tors. and A seDior dficial of the U.N. Relief and Works A$eDCy. . filed a e( . easualtie8 in Gaza jum1 fT(XD 191DJuty tomffe than IXI
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"Plastic bullets flll hospitals," Pacific Daily News, 7 October 1988. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-072. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-072
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