B'Tselem report: Crowd Control: Israel's Use of Crowd Control ...

military approval. This applies to private as well as public gatherings. OrderNo. 101 is anachronistic, both in the forms of punishment it prescribes and inits disregard of present-day court rulings, especially the ruling by Israel’s HighCourt of Justice concerning the right of protest. 120Members of the security forces who are faced with stone throwers, sometimesin large-scale events, have the authority to use the various weapons detailedin this report. However, the authorities must ensure that the troops on theground obey the open-fire regulations and use crowd control weapons withinthe parameters that keep them non-lethal. It follows that every soldier, officer,or police officer violating these rules must be prosecuted. In addition, B’Tselemdemands that Israeli security forces:• prohibit use of live ammunition, including 0.22inch-caliber bullets, for crowdcontrol, except in instances of mortal danger;• restrict use of rubber-coated metal bullets to instances of mortal danger, asa preliminary measure before firing live ammunition;•completely prohibit the firing of 40mm tear-gas canisters either directly atindividuals or horizontally, in a way that could cause injury.120 B’Tselem, “The Right to Demonstrate in the Occupied Territories,” Position Paper, July 2010, http://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files2/publication/20100715_right_to_demonstrate_eng.pdf50