The bullet ridden corpse of Mohammad Abdullah Abu al-Husni, was found on the morning of September 8 near the town of Jabaliya, where he lived in Gaza.
17 year-old Mohammad was shot several times in his legs on Saturday evening, while walking past an Israeli military post in Gaza.
As he lay on the ground Mohammad used his mobile phone to call an ambulance, however, Israeli soldiers held it back, preventing the medics from attending the boy.
As he lay on the ground, emergency medical staff tried to communicate by tures at will of protestors they viewed as a bunch of anarchists with no social roots. In future, socialists must seriously build these protests in the labour movement and get branches to affiliate and send delegates to the organising committees. The appearance of trade union figures and politicians with a national profile would have made the state think twice before conducting intimidatory levels of surveillance. We must also ensure that organisations such as CND, Stop the War, and Columbia and Palestine Solidarity Campaigns send national representatives to organising meetings and see such protests as a major focus of their activity.
The level of international mobilisation could also have been far greater. No one except the anarchists activated their European contacts - we must think abut how we use the networks that are springing up around the European Social Forum to build future protests.
Finally, we should not try to engage in cloak-and-dagger stuff with the state. They're miles better at it than we are. It may be necessary to keep some plans for phone how best to attend his own injuries, but each time Muhammad attempted to move soldiers in the nearby military post shot again at his legs.
The boy was left lying on the ground unattended throughout Saturday night, and was dead by the time medics were able to reach him on Sunday morning
The local Palestinians who found him reported a body riddled with bullets, Mohammad obviously having received live ammunition to his head, neck and stomach during the night.
The cold-blooded non-violent direct action fairly quiet, but this will tend to be counter. productive when you want to mobilise large numbers, as we surely do
Despite the organisational difficulties the protests were impressive - 2 marches attracted over 1000 people and the blockades on September 10 mobilised significant numbers of militant and determined young
We should look to learn organisational lessons and build on our successes. We can learn from sections of the peace movement in the 80s, including the women protesting at Greenham Common, who managed to combine a creative variety of disruptive tactics with the mobilisation of large numbers of people. murder of this 17 year-old boy is the four hundred and eighty third killing of a Palestinian child since the beginning of the Intifada
470 Palestinian children and young peo. ple have died at the hands of Israeli soldiers, 315 as a result of being shot at with live ammunition.
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Our strengths, our weapons of mass construction, to borrow a phrase, are what they always were - openness, democracy, solidarity, mass involvement.
Sections of the British anti-war movement are looking to the world anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation movements for inspiration as it faces the task of building, not a short-term wave of protest, but a socia movement rooted in civil society
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