[IsraelTimes] Rioters attack troops with grenades, bombs, rocks and burning tires; dozens of protesters said hurt; Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, official calls for armed uprising in West BankThousands of Paleostinians were demonstrating along the Gazoo Strip’s border with Israel Monday, with the Hamas-run health ministry saying some 30 people were maimed in riots in several locations.
Protesters threw grenades, bombs and rocks and rolled burning tires toward the troops on the other side of the security fence, the army said.
Thousands of rioters clashed with Israeli troops along the northern Gazoo border near Zikim beach, south of Ashkelon, the military said, and some managed to sabotage and remove a part of the fence.
Israeli soldiers responded with live fire in certain cases, as well as with less-lethal means, the military said.
Meanwhile,
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dozens of boats challenged the Israeli blockade and were intercepted by Israeli Navy boats.
Fathi Hamad, the Hamas terror group’s former interior minister in the Strip, spoke to protesters near the flotilla and called, "To all those who hesitate, take up arms and fight Israel in the West Bank," Channel 10 news reported.
The flotilla marked 11 years since Israel imposed a blockade on the Paleostinian enclave in 2007, after Hamas came to power there. Both Israel and Egypt enforce a number of restrictions on the movement of people and goods into and out of Gazoo. Israel says the blockade is necessary to keep Hamas and other terror groups in the Strip from arming or building military infrastructure.
Meanwhile Israeli Fire and Rescue Services said Monday evening that they had far been called to extinguish one fire caused by an incendiary balloon flown into Israel from Gazoo.
11 Palestinians wounded during Gaza fishing boat protest
[PRESSTV] Eleven Palestinian protesters were wounded by Israeli fire during a protest along Gaza's coast on Monday, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Protesters were marking the 12 years since Israel imposed a blocked on the Gaza Strip. Several boats joined the protest, as those on land burned tires and threw stones over the border with Israel. Israeli forces responded with teargas and live fire.