among dozens of protesters who gathered in Nabi Saleh Friday for a weekly demonstration protesting what residents say is the encroachment of a nearby Israeli settlement.

The protest turned violent, with protestors and soldiers exchanging volleys of rocks and tear gas.

During the fighting, according to protest organizer Jonathan Pollak, Tamimi was hit in the face at close range with a tear-gas projectile fired by an Israeli soldier.

Tamimi was critically wounded and brought to an Israeli hospital for emergency treatment.

A photograph of the incident appears to show a projectile fired in Tamimi's direction from the back of an Israeli military vehicle.

Tamimi's death and the photo capturing the purported moment before he was hit have renewed concerns about the Israeli military's use of force in dealing with Palestinian demonstrators, and raisedConservative U.S. Christian “family values” and religious organizations are setting up fronts in Africa to fight for anti-gay and anti-abortion legislation to promote their fundamentalist convictions, according to a report by the progressive think tank Political Research Associates.

A national gay rights group says that Ventura County prosecutors should do the “just and merciful thing” and reach a plea deal with Brandon McInerney for fatally shooting a gay middle-school student rather than trying him a second time.

This week, communities in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Maryland have organized candlelight vigils to mourn the loss of Dr. Gaurav Gopalan, a 35-year-old gay South Asian aeronautics engineer and theater artist who was murdered near his home in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on Sept. 10, 2011.