Sentence examples for canisters hit from inspiring English sources

Mustafa Barghouti, a doctor and Palestinian politician, said one of the tear-gas canisters hit him, sending him to the hospital.

Thousands of people ran for cover when the canisters hit the ground, spewing white smoke and a distinctively sharp smell into the air.

In Bethlehem, Palestinians reported one person seriously hurt when an Israeli tear-gas canister hit him in the head.

Weeks later, an Israeli tear gas canister hit his friend Phil in the chest and killed him.

"The gas canister hit my brow and cracked my skull and eye-socket, look," he said pointing at an X-ray of his skull.

She wore large, dark glasses day and night because her eyes were damaged when a hissing tear gas canister hit her in the face.

A gas canister hit my leg and I couldn't walk any more.

Bizarrely, they figured one effective method would be to fire tear gas canisters into the courtyard of a nearby school, where only children were present, leaving four of them in the infirmary with breathing problems, one passed out and another injured after a canister hit her directly on the head.  .

Similarly the police have made efforts to curb use, threatening to confiscate canisters and hit 'unlicensed vendors' with as much as two years in prison.

Nasir Samara, a member of a group in Bilin that helps organize the weekly demonstrations against the barrier, said in a statement that the high-velocity tear gas canister that hit Mr. Abu Rahma had been fired from a distance of about 20 yards.

Palestinian medics told the BBC that the minister had died as a result of suffocation from the tear gas, though one witness said a tear gas canister had hit him in the chest.