Tristan Anderson, Minutes after he was shot

Tristan Anderson, 38, an American citizen, was critically injured on Friday, March 13, by Israeli troops during protests against Israel’s Wall in the West Bank village of Ni’lin. He was hit in his forehead by a new type of high velocity, extended range teargas projectile, and has been transferred to Tel Hashomer hospital, near Tel Aviv. Tristan has suffered numerous condensed fractures to his forehead, and sustained life-threatening injuries to his brain, as well as to his right eye. He is expected to undergo several operations in the coming days, in addition to the one he underwent on Friday.

March 16 update: Tristan was winded of artificial respiration today, and is now breathing on his own. The doctors are also now gradually lowering his anesthetics, but regaining foll consciousness may take weeks. Tristan’s parents are expected to arrive in the hospital today.
March 15 update: Tristan’s anesthesia was shortly reduced to preform a serious of tests by his doctors. In those tests he was able to respond to an order by the doctor by moving his two of his right hand fingers. He is still respirated, and was put back under deep anesthesia. A demonstration in front of the ministry of defense was held in Tel Aviv today in support of Tristan and the Palestinian struggle.

See here for a report on Tristan’s shooting and his situation after it (including a video)
See here for a video of the demonstration prior to Anderson’s shooting

In the past six months, Four of Ni’lin’s residents have been shot dead during demonstrations against the wall on their land. Ahmed Mousa, 10, was shot in the forehead with live ammunition on July 29, 2008. The following day, Yousef Amira, 17, was shot twice with rubber-coated steel bullets, leaving him brain dead. He died a week later on August 4, 2008. Arafat Rateb Khawaje, 22, was the third Ni’lin resident to be killed by Israeli forces. He was shot in the back with live ammunition on December 28, 2008. That same day, Mohammed Khawaje, 20, was shot in the head with live ammunition, leaving him brain dead. He died three days later in a Ramallah hospital.