Limor GoldsteinMa'an
Israeli lawyer and peace activist Limor Goldstein was shot in the head with a rubber bullet at an anti-wall protest in the West Bank in 2006 and awarded 860,000 US dollars in damages by an Israeli court Tuesday.
Goldstein suffered brain damage after Israeli soldiers shot him in the head with rubber-coated metal bullets as he observed an anti-wall protest in the West Bank village of Bil’in in August 2006. At the time of the incident soldiers refused to call medical assistance for the injured protester.
"It was a non-violent rally, and the Border Guard officers were the ones to use violence by firing rubber bullets," Goldstein’s Attorney Bishara Jabali, told the Israeli news outlet Ynet. "The fact that the State agreed to pay damages without admitting liability proves that the security forces' actions were inappropriate,” she added.
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