Woman sets herself ablaze during protest in Netivot

[Violet_Crumble]

A right-wing activist set herself ablaze Wednesday during an anti-pullout protest in the Negev town of Netivot.

She was seriously wounded, suffering from burns on 60 percent of her body. She was taken to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva for treatment.

Police said Wednesday morning that in the last 24 hours they had arrested 498 pullout opponents, of whom 451 were released.

Also Wednesday, 48 people, some of them armed, were arrested on their way to the northern West Bank settlement of Homesh.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613781.html

[gman16]

1. Yada, Yada, Yada.....n/t

[Jim Sagle]

2. Sounds like an attitude problem. You think someone burning herself alive

is funny?

[Scurrilous]

3. Woman who set herself on fire dies in hospital

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3133613,00.html

Yelena Bosinova took most drastic of forms of protest against the pullout from Gaza

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"A woman who set herself on fire to protest the disengagement program has died of her injuries.

Yelena Bosinova, 54, of Kadumim, was rushed to the Soroka hospital in Beer Sheva with third degree burns on 75 percent of her body. She was placed on a life support machine, and remained unconsciousness after sustaining her injuries, and suffered system failures on all levels throughout her body.

Bosinova stood 50 meters from the checkpoint west of Netivot. She refused water from police in the area, and did not take any shade. Later, police found the woman on fire and ran towards her with buckets of water. The flames were put out and an ambulance was rushed to the area."