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An American activist critically wounded by an Israeli gas canister in the West Bank is "hanging from a thread" after brain surgery Saturday, friends said.
Tristan Anderson, 38, a "tree-sitter" from Oakland, Calif., was hit in the forehead when troops shot tear gas during a protest of the separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank village of Naalin.
Anderson was in the intensive care unit of a Tel Aviv hospital yesterday, with girlfriend Gabrielle Silverman keeping a bedside vigil. "He's really touch and go. He's hanging from a thread," friend Paul Larudee told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Anderson and Silverman, 25, were arrested last year after spending 21 months in a "tree-sitting" protest at the University of California-Berkeley, fighting against the administration's plan to rip down an on-campus grove.
They traveled to the West Bank to rally against the Israeli-erected barrier that could cut off Palestinian villages from valuable farmland.
The Israeli army said it fired the tear gas to stop protesters from throwing stones at soldiers.
yep. 38 - yr old "activist". Spent nearly 2 yrs sitting in trees. Where do they get the coin to exist, much less travel to Israel to protest and throw rocks at Israeli troops? Somebody's paying for these commie agitators |