Article: Israeli Groups Want Ban on Rubber Bullets

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Dateline: JERUSALEM The Israeli army must remove rubber bullets from its arsenal, a human rights group said Tuesday, after a commission of inquiry ruled they are too deadly for crowd control.

The Israeli military considers the rubber-coated steel pellets non- lethal and soldiers routinely fire them at Palestinian stone throwers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed by rubber bullets in the past 15 years, Israeli and Palestinian researchers said.

The use of rubber bullets was reviewed by an official commission that issued a report Monday on the killing of 13 Israeli Arabs by police in riots in October 2000. Three of the protesters were ...

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