The Israeli troops responded with tear gas and volleys of rubber-coated steel bullets.
They would not have had time to drown: due to the immense pressure, "the first few drops of water would have shot through flesh and bone like steel bullets."
The commission issued several specific recommendations to the Israeli police, including that it halt the use of rubber-coated steel bullets for crowd control.
In the July 15, 2011 march, Burnat was injured by rubber-coated steel bullets after international and Israeli supporters joined the villagers in the protest.
Each held a number of steel bullets.
The M-60s roared on, their giant steel bullets splashing the water inches from the canoes.
Helmeted officers took cover behind walls about 15 yards away, jumping out to fire rubber-coated steel bullets at close range and blanks at the protesters.
Into the breech I place a Boxer cartridge, specialty provided for experimental purposes with a steel bullet.
He carefully dug out the first needle-pointed steel bullet and handed it to the medical major, then he continued to split the block, digging out the others.
And they'd looked below them, hearing the sound of a steel bullet hit the seamless iron hull of the submarine.