Youssef AmirehOn Wednesday, July 30th, Youssef Amireh was shot in the head with by a border policeman.  The two rubber coated bullets, shot from a distance of ten meters, penetrated his skull and left him brain dead. Today, five days later, Youssef Amireh succumbed to his wounds and passed away.

For the first time since the murder and mortal injury that shocked Ni'ilin this week, about 600 villagers marched to their lands accompanied by Israeli and international supporters. The villagers prayed on their lands, and then, despite a massive presence of border police forces, went on to dismantle the razor wire barricade Ahmed Mousa was killed after trying to dismantle.

Youssef Amireh in the hospital after suffering a mortal injuriy

At around 19:30 today an Israeli border policeman shot Youssef Amireh, 17 years old, in the head at close range with a rubber coated bullet, causing him mortal wounds. Amireh was shortly after pronounced brain dead by the doctors in the Ramallah hospital. The incident took place just hours after the funeral of ten year old Ahmed Mousa, who was murdered by a border policeman yesterday.

The body of ten years old Ahmed Mousa at the Ramallah hospital

Ten years old Ahmed Mousa was murdered by a border policeman in Ni'ilin today. He was shot in the forehead from a short distance, while on his lands and posing absolutely no threat. The shot killed him on the spot, and two of his brothers had to carry his lifeless body back to the village, about a kilometer away, leaving a thick trail of blood behind them.

A French photographer after being shot in the face

Over a hundred international and Israeli supporters joined the women and men of Ni'ilin and set out towards the wall's construction site today with the aim of once more disrupting the destruction of the village's lands. Soldiers and border policemen opened fire at the crowd of hundreds on sight and without any provocation.

Video by Keren Shayo

About two hundred Palestinian, Israeli and international women demonstrated in Ni'ilin against the apartheid wall being constructed by Israel cutting deep into the West Bank, effectively appropriating village lands to nearby settlement Hashmonaim. Soldiers welcomed the group with sound bombs and teargas, which kept the women from reaching the work site using violence, but demonstrators repeatedly forced the soldiers to retreat quite a bit over the hour long protest. There were two arrests, five injuries, and lots of gas; this is the first of a series of women's actions planned in the village