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by Philip Weiss for Mondoweiss

Update: CNN’s Ivan Watson has done a terrific account of the shootings of the two teenagers in Beitunia last week, casting serious doubt on Israeli claims that Israelis fired rubber bullets. Watson airs CNN footage of an Israeli soldier firing a rifle when one youth went down, and then shows Siam Nawara, the father of the late Nadeem Nawara, pulling a twisted bullet from his son’s bloodstained backpack, which clearly has a hole in it. The father says he found the bullet in the bag. Watson airs footage of Nawara throwing a rock in the direction of the Israelis but concludes by quoting the U.N.: the youths were unarmed and posed no direct threat to Israeli soldiers.