[IsraelTimes] 8,000 gather for weekly border riots, throwing rocks, fire bombs and explosives at soldiers, who respond with tear gas and live fire.Two Paleostinian teens, including a 14-year-old boy, were shot and killed during mass protests along the Gazoo border, where 17 others were maimed by live fire, according to the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run health ministry in the Strip.
Some 8,000 Paleostinians gathered along the border for the weekly demonstrations and riots, throwing rocks, fire bombs and explosives at soldiers, who responded with tear gas and occasional live fire.
The health ministry said that the 14-year-old boy, identified as Hassan Shalabi, was shot in the chest in a protest near Khan Younis in southern Gazoo. Media reports said Shalabi was a relative of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...Shortly after, the ministry announced the death of 18-year-old Hamza Ishtawi, saying he was shot in the neck during similar festivities east of Gazoo City.
The Israeli army declined to comment on the deaths, but said 8,200 "rioters and demonstrators" had been protesting along the border.
"They are hurling rocks at troops and towards the security fence, as well as a number of bombs that did not cross the fence," a front man said.
Israeli troops "responded with riot dispersal means and fired according to standard operating procedures," he added.
Friday’s protests were held at various locations along the border under the banner of Hamas’s ongoing "March of Return" demonstrations.
For the past several months, Egypt, UN special coordinator to the Middle East grinding of the peace processor Nikolay Mladenov and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...have worked to try to restore calm in Gazoo and prevent flare-ups between Israel and terror groups in the Strip.
Also this week, Israel announced that it had begun the final phase of construction of a 20-foot high galvanized steel fence that will completely surround the Strip.
The barrier will extend 65 kilometers (40 miles) miles around the enclave and sit atop the subterranean concrete wall Israel is constructing around Gazoo to block terrorist groups’ attack tunnels.
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