On Friday 8 March and Friday 15th March, the residents of Nabi Saleh did not hold their weekly march in the village.On March 8, the residents of Nabi Saleh and their supporters joined the funeral for the martyr Mohammed ‘Asfour, 22 years, who died on Thursday March 7 as a result of being shot with a steel coated rubber bullet on February 22nd by the Israeli Occupation Forces with a rubber coat steel bullet. Mohammed funeral was attacked by Israel Occupation Forces who fired teargas and steel coated rubber bullets at funeral goers.
On Friday, 15 March, the residents of Nabi Saleh and their supporters joined the Nabi Saleh joined the nearby demonstration in Aboud village to commemorate Mohammed Asfour. The demonstration was attacked by the IOF.
Below is a report and photos from French activist and photographer, Anne Paq on the March 8 funeral of Mohammed Asfour from her blog, Chroniques de Palestine: popular resistance and human rights.
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Another funeral in Palestine: Muhammad Asfour from Abud village 08.03.2013
by Anne Paq: Chroniques de Palestine- Popular resistance and human rights
Muhammad Asfour, 23, was shot in his head by a rubber coated steel bullet by an Israeli soldier, on February 22, 2013, during clashes in the entrance to his home village of Abud, northwest of Ramallah, during a solidarity protest with the hunger striking Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
Asfour succumbed to his fatal injury after 2 weeks in the hospital.
