Ja
dat je nog moet benadrukken, dat de 14 jarige jongen die afgelopen vrijdag door een Israëlische 'held' (psychopaat) werd vermoord, niet gewapend was, is eigenlijk wel het meest
trieste dat te melden is, sinds Israël, vergelijkbaar met nazi-moordenaars sinds
maart jl. ongewapende demonstranten afknalt, als betrof het dieren
waarmee Israël denkt te kunnen doen wat het wil......
In
het westen wil men dit gewoon niet weten en ziet men als de
fascistische zionisten in Israël, de Palestijnen als onmensen die
nergens recht op kunnen doen gelden, zelfs niet als ze al vele
generaties lang in hun huizen woonden en hun grond bewerkten..... (waar een enorm aantal Palestijnen al in 1948 uiterst gewelddadig werden verjaagd en waarbij velen van hen werden vermoord door de zionisten, ofwel: fascisten.... Nog steeds hebben de Palestijnen zich te schikken naar de wil van zionisten en moeten maar
oprotten naar een ander land (uiteraard niet naar het westen).....
Er wordt nu in kringen van de Israëlische regering zelfs openlijk gesproken de Palestijnen nog massaler te vermoorden en de rest het land uit te jagen, waar deze psychopaten ook de illegaal bezette gebieden tot Israëlisch grondgebied rekenen......
Israël blokkeert de Gazastrook al jaren en het ontbreekt de Palestijnen (nog steeds mensen als jij en ik) aan van alles, zelfs water moet aangevoerd worden en er is maar voor een paar uur per dag elektriciteit........ Deze blokkade die zelfs moet voorkomen dat mensen de openluchtgevangenis Gazastrook verlaten*, is de reden voor het enorme protest van de Palestijnen
The Great Return March is haar honderdste dag gepasseerd en intussen zijn 138 ongewapende Palestijnen (waaronder een fiks aantal kinderen) vermoord door het fascistische Israëlische leger...... Voorts zijn er vele duizenden Palestijnen gewond geraakt door het uiterst gewelddadige Israëlische optreden
In het origineel van het hieronder opgenomen artikel bevinden zich video's, alleen die waarop te zien is dat de 14 jarige Uthman Rami Hillis wordt doodgeschoten kon ik op YouTube vinden, voor de rest van deze video's zie het origineel via de link hierboven.
Israel
kills child as Gaza marks 100 days of protests
Palestinians
protest against Israel’s use of snipers to target children, during
a protest east of Gaza City, 13 July. Dawoud Abo
AlkasAPA images
Israeli
snipers killed a child on Friday and fatally wounded a second person
as Palestinians marked more than 100 days of Great
March of Return protests
in Gaza.
Uthman
Rami Hillis, 14, was killed by live fire, according to
the human rights group Al Mezan**.
Hillis,
from the neighborhood of Shujaiya, was shot by Israeli forces
stationed across the boundary east of Gaza City, the group stated.
On
Saturday, the health ministry in Gaza announced that
20-year-old Muhammad Nasir Shurab had died of injuries he suffered
the day before when he was shot by snipers east of Khan Younis.
More
than more 100 people across Gaza were injured, 65 with live
ammunition.
Defense
for Children International Palestine shared a video said to show the
moment Hilles was shot. It shows the boy climbing on the separation
fence along the Gaza-Israel boundary, but presenting no direct or
mortal threat to anyone at the moment he was killed.
Palestinian
media circulated this photo of Hillis following news of his death.
Media
also shared images of Hillis being carried on a stretcher after he
was shot:
Video showed
distressing scenes as relatives mourned over Hillis’ body at the
morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
Before
Hillis’ death on Friday, the UN humanitarian monitoring agency OCHA
reported that 21 children were among the nearly
150 Palestinians killed
by Israeli forces in Gaza since 30 March, the vast majority of them
during protests. More than 4,000 others have been wounded by live
fire.
During
the same period, four Israelis have been injured.
Standing
with Khan al-Ahmar
For
the 16th Friday in a row thousands of
Palestinians headed towards Gaza’s eastern boundary.
Since
30 March, Palestinians have been mounting protests against Israel’s
11-year siege of Gaza and to call for the right of refugees to return
to lands from which they were expelled and are excluded by Israel
because they are not Jews.
Israel
has responded by deploying snipers with orders
to shoot unarmed
civilians including children – killings and maimings the
International Criminal Court prosecutor has warned could
lead to Israeli leaders being tried for war crimes.
The
theme of this Friday’s protest was solidarity with Khan
al-Ahmar,
a Bedouin village near Jerusalem which faces imminent
demolition by
Israel – a
war crime –
to make way for more Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Many
Palestinians in Gaza addressed messages to the people of Khan
al-Ahmar through local media.
“We
are here today in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Khan
al-Ahmar,” one man said. “All of Gaza is with you.”
This
image shows a Palestinian waving the Irish flag in honor of the Irish
senate’s passage
earlier this week of
a bill to ban the import of goods from Israeli settlements.
Israel
tightens siege
As
Palestinians in Gaza sustain their revolt against the siege despite
the devastating cost, Israel is responding by tightening the blockade
even further.
On
Monday, Israel announced the closing of
Gaza’s only commercial goods crossing.
Israel
is also reducing the distance Gaza fishers are allowed out to sea
from nine to six nautical miles.
The
steps are collective punishment against Gaza’s two million people
for incendiary kites and balloons that Palestinians have launched,
setting fire to fields on the Israeli side of the boundary.
Israel’s
technologically advanced military has proven unable to counter the
kites and balloons.
So
once again, occupation authorities are inflicting more of the
suffering that has spurred revolt against a situation in which the
population in Gaza – half of them children – can only choose
between dying by Israel’s bullets and bombs, or being reduced
quietly to desperation and death by
the siege.
Israel
says it will allow in
“humanitarian” supplies such as food and medicine, but UN
officials are warning that the closure of the commercial crossing
will make the situation in Gaza much worse.
The
closure “can be expected to have profound and far reaching
consequences for already desperate civilians,” Chris Gunness,
spokesperson for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine
refugees, stated on
Thursday.
Gunness pointed
out that
among the imports banned by Israel were building materials for UN
education, health, water, sanitation and hygiene projects.
Gaza’s
water and sanitation systems are already
near collapse following
years of Israeli blockade and military attacks.
Inflicting
suffering
Gisha,
an Israeli human rights group that monitors the blockade of
Gaza, said that
Israel is banning all building materials, not just those destined for
UN projects – which will quickly bring all construction in Gaza to
a halt.
Already
struggling businesses will also suffer huge losses.
Farmer
Suleiman Zurub was waiting to ship 2,000 crates of sweet potatoes out
through the crossing. That crop will now likely spoil. “Farmers are
the big losers from this decision,” Zurub said, according to Gisha.
Hasan
Shehadeh, who owns a clothing company, also faces huge losses as he
is unable to ship goods to customers in Israel, the occupied West
Bank and China.
“If
things stay this way, I’ll suffer huge financial losses, because in
my contracts I’ve signed a commitment to pay for every item left in
my factory,” Shehadeh said, according to Gisha.
Shehadeh
is also worried about the 200 people he employs. “Israel’s
decision will affect them too, of course,” he said.
Early
warnings
UNRWA’s
Gunness predicted that
the latest closure would lead to an increase in demand for UNRWA
services.
'
This
would come at a time when the agency, which provides emergency
rations, health and education to hundreds of thousands of people in
Gaza, faces an unprecedented financial crisis following the freezing
of US contributions earlier
this year.
In
June, UNRWA warned that
it may have to make deep cuts to its already stretched services.
Even
before the latest Israeli restrictions, UN officials pointed to signs
of a sharply deteriorating situation.
From
January 2017 to June this year, the percentage of essential drugs at
a zero stock level in Gaza has risen steadily from one-third to
one-half, according
to OCHA –
meaning there is less than a one-month supply for those medicines.
In
June, the average number of hours of electricity per day was 4.5
hours, close to an all-time low since January 2017.
Meanwhile,
over the past year, the number of people who have had to borrow money
or food from family or friends rose from about one in three to nearly
half.
International
complicity
The
European Union, which rarely criticizes Israel and has failed to
condemn its massacres of civilians in Gaza, said
on Friday that
it “expects Israel to reverse” the decision to close the
commercial crossing.
The
EU even tacitly justified Israel’s action by including a demand
that “Hamas and other actors in Gaza must cease and refrain from
violent actions and provocations against Israel, including the
launching of incendiary kites and balloons.”
By
contrast, Gisha has called Israel’s
resort to “collectively punishing nearly two million people in
Gaza” by closing the goods crossing “both illegal and morally
depraved.”
The
Palestinian human rights group Al Mezan deplored “the
international community’s continued tolerance of the collective
punishment of the population of Gaza in violation of its legal
obligations under international humanitarian law.”
Al
Mezan warned that Gaza is witnessing “a social and economic
collapse” and is heading towards an “explosion.”
Air
attacks
Overnight
Friday to Saturday, and again on Saturday, Israel carried out air
strikes across Gaza.
Israel
began the attacks Friday night “in response to an Israeli army
officer sustaining wounds after a locally-made bomb was thrown at him
at the borders of the Gaza Strip,” Ma’an News Agency reported,
citing Israeli media.
The
newspaper Haaretz reported that
an Israeli officer “was moderately wounded by a hand grenade that
was launched at him from the northern Gaza Strip” on Friday.
Israel
claimed it attacked tunnels and sites used for the preparation of
incendiary kites and balloons.
Palestinian
resistance factions returned fire towards Israel by launching dozens
of rockets.
On
Saturday, Israel resumed bombing Gaza and claimed to have carried out
the biggest
daytime attacks on
the territory since its 2014 assault.
According to Haaretz,
the Israeli “army said the attacks on Saturday were “in response
not only to the launches” of retaliatory rockets from Gaza, “but
also to Hamas’ activities along the border and the incendiary
balloons and kites.”
On
Saturday, Haaretz reported
that one rocket “exploded near an Israeli border community,” but
that there had been no injuries.
The
health ministry in Gaza said that
by Saturday evening one person had suffered moderate injuries due to
the ongoing Israeli air attacks.
On
social media, Palestinians in Gaza reported loud explosions from
bombing that appeared calculated to terrorize the population.
** Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan)
Gaza
