Two Palestinian children killed during protests in Gaza | Chronic

Three young Palestinians, including two minors, were shot dead by the Israeli army during a mbadive demonstration in front of the separation barrier separating the Gaza Strip and Israel, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Great walk back into the enclave. Palestinians, Palestinian medical sources reported.

The two minors, both 17, were hit in the head and chest respectively, according to the spokesman of the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Ashraf al Qudra, quoted by the news agency MAAN.

The third deceased is a 21-year-old man who was shot by a gun on Friday night, while at least 244 others were injured, including 46 by the impact of live ammunition.

The Palestinian Red Crescent, for its part, reported on Twitter that one of its volunteers had been injured by the impact of a tear gas canister.

At its peak, some 40,000 people protested this Saturday, according to the Israeli army, in a mbadive mobilization before the separation fence, in commemoration of the first anniversary of the Great March of Return and Earth Day.

These protests are repeated every week on March 30, 2018 and call for the return of Palestinian refugees and the end of the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, imposed since 2007, when the Islamist movement Hamas took power in the Gaza Strip. enclave.

During this Saturday's march, protesters gathered at different locations along the border fence.

The Israeli army reported that the demonstration involved "violent riot groups", some armed with knives, explosives and grenades "and denounced their intention "to cross the Israeli border and reach Israeli families on the other side"reported the Europa Press news agency. However, the army said that most of the protesters stayed away from the demarcation line, in the shops of the five central camps.

According to the instructions of the organizing committee, which had asked the protesters to stay away from the fence, dozens of people wearing orange vests were placed in different places to ask people not to continue, the spokesman said. News agency. Eyewitnesses EFE.

Saturday's protests coincide with the Egyptian delegation's stay in Gaza, which mediates between Israel and the Palestinian faction factions to avoid a new spike in violence, and which today accompanied the head of the country. Hamas, Ismail Haniya, to observe the situation on the ground at a point of the steps.

Bloody history

Since the protests began in March 2018, at least 271 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire, 195 during protests and 76 other violent incidents, according to figures from the United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Territories (OCHA). .

While 28,939 Palestinians were wounded, 25% of them by Israeli gunfire. Two Israeli soldiers also died, one during demonstrations and the other during a secret operation inside the enclave.

Israel, which remains alert on the perimeter of the border with a reinforcement of troops, accuses Hamas of using the demonstrations to commit attacks on Israeli territory.

Violence in the Gaza Barrier eventually became part of the political and social life of Israelis and Palestinians until it became an expression of conflict in the region during a tumultuous twelve-month period for both extremes of the conflict: the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, investigated for corruption and in the middle of the election campaign, and Hamas, entangled with the Palestinian government in the occupied West Bank in a political battle.