(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Ramallah March 13 (Petra) -- Dozens of Palestinians including many children have been injured and killed by new Israeli lethal foam-tipped bullets since 2014 Haaretz daily reported Sunday.
According to the newspaper over 90% of the foam-tipped bullets fired were of the heavy and dangerous type adding that over the past two years 57000 foam -tipped bullets have been fired most of them in Jerusalem.
The justice Ministry has investigated15 complaints into injuries but no policemen have been indicted yet despite orders that placed restrictions on how the bullets are fired.
Foam- tipped bullets are projectiles made of plastic with compressed foam tip used mainly by police as an antiriot weapon.
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