GWENT councillor and peace activist Ray Davies has been shot during clashes between Palestinian refugees and the Israeli army in Nablus.
Caerphilly councillor Mr Davies, 73, pictured, who is the vice-chairman of CND Cymru and has made regular visits to the Middle East to champion the Palestinian cause, is believed to have been grazed by a bullet while trying to help ambulances enter a refugee camp at Balata on the West Bank.
He was struck on the head and knocked unconscious but soldiers refused to allow an ambulance containing him and other protesters to leave the camp.
Councillor Davies, from Bedwas, was taken by taxi to hospital by a paramedic, where his wound was determined to be a graze from a bullet.
He was patched up and released within hours, and now plans to complain to the UN Human Rights Commission.
Mr Davies' wife Wendy told the Argus she has spoken to her husband three times since the shooting on Wednesday and that he is all right and she is expecting him home on Friday.
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