began con fi skating registered cars. he peacefully resisted and was run over by a tow truck. he was on the ground battered and bleeding, israeli officials say solomon charged at the truck. witnesses say and there were many of them, say otherwise. what happened next was the real tragedy. witnesses say the tow truck driver and their police escort simply fled the rural village. they did not render aid to solomon, they did not even call for an ambulance. the protester never emerged from his coma and he died of his injuries this week. solomon was a man with little to his name except for his land, his village, and his ability to stand up to an illegal occupation. this small man with just his words and his staff was a thorn in the side of the israeli occupation because he had become a symbol of the resistance, and an emblem of that israeli occupation. m of that israeli occupation