A Norwegian woman was shot twice in one week during protests outside of Nablus, in the West Bank, reportedly with rubber-tipped bullets.
Kristin Foss — an activist and member of the International Solidarity Movement — told Euronews the first incident occurred on August 18 in Kafr Qaddum while she was helping an elderly man get his car during demonstrations.
Foss said the man, in his seventies, had gone out to his driveway to get his car when he realised it was no longer where he left it.
“He didn’t realise the soldiers were there and they took his car and they parked in the middle of the road as an economic shield … so protesters don’t want to hit his car,” she said.
Foss, 43, and her Icelandic colleague Anna agreed to help the man. One reason, she says, was because the protests had quelled at this point and the other — which she says may have been “naive” — was because she thought she would have some sort of protection as an “international observer”.