Over a thousand posters were posted all around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, bringing up the little published story of the murder of 11 year old Abir Aramin from the Palestinian village Anata, near Jerusalem.
Flyposting in Tel Aviv
Abir was shot in the head with a rubber bullet by a border police force who invaded her village on Tuesday, January 16th. She was shot shortly while going from her school to but candy in the nearby store.
The army originally claimed that they know of no shooting incident in the area, and later claimed Abir, who was hit in the back of her head, might have been hurt from playing with a dud. A pathologist hired by the family determined last week that Abir was almost certainly hit by a rubber coated steel bullet.
A posted poster, reading: Our hands did not spill this blood and our eyes did not see.
Hassan, a sixteen-year old student who witnessed Abir’s injury and carried her back to the girls school stated “the students of the girls school and the boys school had both just come out of an exam. A border police jeep approached the gathering of girls. The girls were afraid and started running away. The border police jeep followed them in the direction in which they were retreating. Abir was afraid and stood against one of the shops at the side of the road, I was standing near her. The border policeman shot through a special hole in the window of the jeep that was standing very close to us. Abir fell to the ground. I picked her up and took her to the girls school. I saw that she was bleeding from the head.”
The Israeli border police have been entering Anata frequently when students go and return from school for the last year and eight months. This began with the construction of the Wall near Anata, supposedly in order to protect the construction workers from the students. Construction of the wall was completed over a month and a half ago, but the daily incursions continue. In the week Abir was shot, border police regularly invaded the village twice a day when the students were going and returning from school.
