The former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, denounced this Tuesday that the convoy in which she was touring by the West Bank with MEP Jaume Asens was attacked by the Israeli military, with “tear gasoline and sound grenades.” Later, Colau reported that “There had been no miracle accidents”though he denounced the “human rights violations” that Israel commits “every single day.”
A video of the attack has been leaked on social networks, which exhibits how the group of worldwide human rights activists in which Colau and Asens had been touring confronts troopers of the Israeli military, in a rural space close to the metropolis of Nablus.
The photos present how the activists file the incident with cameras and cell phones, whereas an Israeli soldier asks them to depart as a substitute. Given the activists’ refusal to depart, the navy They even fireplace a tear gasoline canister. There can also be some pushing and preventing between the troopers and the members of Colau’s group, who will be seen from behind and along with his arms raised.
“The Israeli troopers knew completely nicely that we had been there to accompany the olive harvest as a result of it had been knowledgeable with a press launch,” Colau defined on his Instagram account, in which he printed a picture with an Israeli soldier.
“I’ve personally knowledgeable the soldier in the picture of who we had been and what we had been doing there and they’ve ignored us and continued with threats and gasoline launches,” he careworn.
