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GAZA (Reuters) – A Palestinian teenager was killed on Wednesday when a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops at a border demonstration hit him in the head, health officials said. in Gaza.
The mother of a Palestinian killed at a demonstration near the Israeli crossing point of Erez, reacts in a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on October 3, 2018. REUTERS / Mohammed Salem
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza said the incident occurred near the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip and that 24 people were injured.
An Israeli army spokesman said that about 1,000 Gazans had gathered near the border, near the crossing point for the Erez passenger, and had launched stones and other objects on the troops and burned tires.
The troops used anti-riot means, including tear gas and rubber bullets, and, if so, live fire, he said.
At least 193 Palestinians have been killed since demonstrations began in Gaza on March 30 to demand the lifting of the Israeli-Egyptian economic blockade and the right of return to the lands that Palestinian families fled or were driven out of during the war. foundation of Israel in 1948.
During this year's protests, a Gaza sniper killed an Israeli soldier and incendiaries launched by Palestinians with kites and helium balloons sparked fires that destroyed of forests and agricultural land in Israel.
Israel accuses Islamist group Hamas, which controls Gaza and waged three wars against Israel over the last decade, to deliberately provoke violence during the demonstrations. Hamas denies the accusation.
More than two million people have crammed into Gaza, whose economic difficulties are at the center of unsuccessful efforts by the United States to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which have been stalled since 2014.
Reportage by Saleh Salem, written by Ori Lewis; Edited by Gareth Jones
