Using Israeli data, study finds rubber bullets cause significant fatalities | The Times of Israel
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A total of 1984 people were injured, they found, of whom 53 (three percent) died.
“Some 300 (15.5 percent) of all survivors were left with permanent disability as a direct result of the rubber bullet impact they sustained — usually to the head and neck,” the team said in statement.
“Blindness, and removal of the spleen, or a section of the bowel as a result of abdominal injuries, accounted for most of this disability.”
Also known as kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs) or rubber baton rounds, rubber or plastic bullets were introduced by the British army in the 1970s for use against rioters in Northern Ireland, deployed against South African protesters in the 1980s, and adopted by the security forces of #Israel and further afield.