10 Meters or 100 Meters?

What are the facts about the loss of Emily Henochowicz's eye?

The 21-year old student, from Maryland, is becoming a new icon figure of martyrdom (see: “They clearly saw us,” said Sören Johanssen, a Swedish ISM volunteer standing with Henochowicz. “They clearly saw that we were internationals and it really looked as though they were trying to hit us. They fired many canisters at us in rapid succession. One landed on either side of Emily, then the third one hit her in the face.”).

Here is Avi Isserchof's account in Ha-Ha-Haaretz, the most reliable newspaper on the issue of Arab anti-"occupation" activities, as we know:

Last Monday at approximately 11:10 A.M., photographer Daniel Bar-On and I were heading to the Qalandiyah crossing to cover a demonstration in Ramallah's Manara Square to protest the raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla and support Turkey.

Right after we passed the crossing, we saw a group of Border Police that arrived in a rush. Some youths threw stones at the army position at the crossing.

Nearby were several dozen demonstrators who raised many flags; the Lebanese one sticks in my mind. Daniel got out of the car and began taking photographs and I looked on - fairly bored, to be honest - at yet another meaningless confrontation between Palestinians and police.

The police fired a tear gas grenade, and then another and another. I remember that what surprised me was the volley of grenade-fire directly aimed directly at the demonstrators, not at the sky.

After the fourth grenade, if I am not mistaken, a shout was heard about 100 meters away.

All the photographers began running in that direction. Someone was moving a young woman away from the melee. Daniel captured the injury of that woman, who we realized only afterward was Emily Henochowicz. Her eye was bleeding badly. She was taken by a Red Crescent ambulance.

We went on to Ramallah, where it was a lot calmer. On the way to Manara we learned that the young woman had lost her eye. All because she had raised a flag.

Besides the fact that Emily did not lose an eye "All because she had raised a flag", but rather because she participated with one of the most violent and radical of groups, the Anarchists-Against-the-Wall for that is the group of Jonathan Pollack, and with the ISMers, and was in proximity with stonethrowers (and we'll hold on the Border Guard claim that there was no direct aiming and/or the pellet ricocheted)

Jonathan seems to confirm the main elements:

Henochowicz was hit in the face by a tear gas canister shot by an Israeli border policeman, said witness Jonathan Pollak. He said Palestinian youths were hurling rocks, but Henochowicz didn't participate in any violence and was standing at a distance.

But here, the distance is much less:

At the West Bank protest where Henochowicz was injured, other demonstrators who witnessed the incident said the canister was fired directly at Henochowicz from about 10 to 15 yards away. She was holding a Turkish flag and was not near the five or so Palestinian youths throwing rocks, the witnesses said.

I will ignore for now those who note that her family is 'observant' since she stopped believing in God three years ago:

Henochowicz grew up in an observant Jewish household and had her bat mitzvah at Potomac’s Har Shalom synagogue. Her father was born in Tel Aviv, and his parents are Polish Holocaust survivors.

nevertheless, she was engaged in a protest that became violent.

What was her duty - to continue to protest and hold high the Turkish flag (who gave her that?) or to cease and engage in non-violent activity?

And how far away was she?