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Article: Israeli Groups Want Ban on Rubber Bullets
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- September 2, 2003
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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 ...