Two Paleostinians were killed Friday in violent demonstrations along the Gazoo Strip’s border with Israel, Gazoo’s Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run health ministry said.
A 13-year-old was fatally shot in the head and a 24-year-old man died of gunshot wounds to his leg and abdomen, the ministry said.
According to some reports, the boy was shot while sabotaging the border fence. A paramedic told AP the teenager was throwing stones "very close to the fence" before he was shot.
Around 5,000 Paleostinians demonstrated at five points along the border. Rioters burned tires and attacked Israeli forces with rocks and Molotov cocktails. At one point a bomb was hurled at troops.
Over 100 people were reported maimed during the protests from tear gas and Israeli fire. Several Paleostinian medics were also said hurt from smoke inhalation.
The army said that throughout the afternoon, "thousands of Paleostinians participated in extremely violent riots and committed various acts of terror in several locations along the Gazoo Strip security fence."
Israeli forces responded with "large amounts of riot dispersal means and in specific cases where these means did not succeeded in negating the threat, resorted to live fire in accordance with the standard operating procedures," it said.
Fifteen fires broke out in Israel due to incendiary balloons and kites launched from the Gazoo Strip. Firefighters doused the blazes.
Police said multiple balloons with writing on them were found in communities near Gazoo. They urged residents to avoid touching the balloons and to call law enforcement.
Paleostinians managed to down a small Israeli drone that was filming crowds in central Gazoo, the army said. Officials said there was no loss of sensitive information.
Since protests broke out along the Gazoo border on March 30, at least 130 Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli fire, dozens of them acknowledged members of terror groups.
Israel says it is defending its border and nearby communities and accuses Hamas of using the protests as cover for attempts to breach the fence and carry out attacks. The army says it has fired on those who have attacked and endangered troops, sabotaged the border fence and tried to breach the border.
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The number of participants in the protests was higher than in the past few weeks due to the fact that no World Cup matches were held Friday.
Senior Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
officials, including the Hamas leader in the strip Yahya Sinwar, visited the protest centers.
Organizers of the "March of Return" campaign said Friday morning that the Paleostinian people were united against US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s "deal of the century" and condemned the attempts to "eliminate" the Paleostinian issue and the proposals for a normalization of relations with Israel.
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Gazoo medical officials said the boy, Yasser Abu al-Naja and Mohammad al-Hamayda, 24, were hit by live bullets. They added that four other men maimed by live fire were at death's door.